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Colorado Central Magazine

Monte Vista Festival is for the Birds

Article by Lynda La Rocca

Wildlife – March 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine

THIS IS ONE FESTIVAL that really is for the birds. Monte Vista’s 16th Annual Crane Festival, March 12-14, celebrates the return of more than 13,000 greater sandhill cranes to the San Luis Valley, and offers the possibility of sighting one of North America’s rarest birds — the whooping crane.