Other birds such as road runners, Steller's Jays, ravens, and canyon wrens can also be found on in the mountains.
The park is also home to more than 130 species of birds including white-throated swifts, swallows and canyon wrens.
White-throated swifts, cliff swallows, canyon wrens and bumblebees of prodigious size also sailed past.
The rushing river and canyon wrens accompanied the impromptu choir along with Mr. Vail's wife, Paula, on flute and 17-year-old Andrew Panes, who brought a guitar from England.
Bird species native to the Pueblo Mountains include sage grouses, canyon wrens, rock wrens, valley quail, and chukars.
Omega was hidden in tall pines, amid the calls of jays and canyon wrens, the wind tugging at treetops.
I saw ash-throated flycatchers, Western kingbirds, black-throated gray warblers, Audubon warblers, black-chinned sparrows, lark sparrows, canyon wrens, black-chinned hummingbirds and a pair of merlins.
Or, more accurately, a family of canyon wrens that had made their home high in the ancient ramparts of Cliff Palace.
Wild turkey, quail, morning doves, canyon wrens, band-tailed pigeons, and many songbirds are frequently seen.