The Butterfly Pavilion’s Wings of the Tropics exhibit lets you walk in a rainforest surrounded by free-flying butterflies from around the globe - but it takes a lot of amazing work to make it possible! Go behind the scenes to learn how the butterflies are sourced, shipped from distant lands, and cared for before and after they hatch from their chrysalises.

Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum’s Vertebrate Zoology Collection. They will open climate-controlled cabinets and drawers in the collections space to show us bird and mammal skeletons, skulls, and skins.

Two full scholarships for attending Audubon’s Coastal Maine Bird Studies for Teens at Hog Island from June 16-21, 2024 are now accepting applications.

Observe and photograph wild ducks and other water birds. International wildlife photographer John Weller will join us to offer pro tips on photography.

We will walk around Doudy Draw and Eldorado Mountain counting all the birds we can see or hear.

We'll count and map perching and flying eagles, harriers, and hawks. Information from this and future surveys will contribute to raptor habitat protection within the Boulder Creek floodplain.

PLEASE NOTE: This trip is full, including the waitlist. We will visit Denver Zoo, with a behind-the-scenes tour of the Bird Propagation Center, where rare and critically endangered birds are being reared for preservation of the species.

We’ll share pizza, then look through telescopes to view Saturn’s rings, Jupiter’s moons and distant star clusters, galaxies and glowing nebulae.

Spend a summer morning searching for monarch butterflies and caterpillars, along with other butterflies, in Boulder's tallgrass prairie preserve.

Boulder’s rocks tell wild tales that include dinosaurs, glaciers, vast swamps, oceans and ancient mountain ranges now vanished into the dust of time.

Join us for an evening exploration of the fascinating world of moths!

See some of the local birds who have just arrived back from the tropics.

During migration, there are changes in who we get to see every day!

BioBlitz at the Dakota Hogback.

What owls are out in the evening with a full moon?

Survey for raptors along the White Rocks Trail.

Join other teens to find as many species of winter birds as you can!

Join other teens to count the local winter raptor population.

Join other teens on a hike through Colorado’s fall colors.

Join other teens for pizza and viewing night sky objects.

Join other teens and see live birds of prey up close and view birds in the wild through spotting scopes and binoculars.