Colorado’s color-changing wildlife face new risks as snow vanishes
Four of them live in Colorado: snowshoe hares, white-tailed ptarmigan, short-tailed weasels and long-tailed weasels.
A white-tailed ptarmigan in a snowy meadow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.(photo credit: Kerry Hargrove/Dreamstime/TNS)ByJONATHAN SHIKES/THE DENVER POST/TNS
