On The Wing Newsletter

Newsletter Archive

The first Boulder County Audubon newsletter was sent to members in March 1971, three months after the first formal meeting of the fledgling organization. Until September 2024, all the newsletters prior to 2004 existed only as paper copies in a banker’s box. All extant issues of the newsletter have now been scanned as PDFs. If you have a copy of a missing issue, please let us know as we would love to borrow it to scan and complete the archive.

The names of the Boulder County Audubon newsletter have changed over the years: Audubon Bulletin (April 1971), Audubon Newsletter (August 1971 - November 1973), The Boulder Audubon Newsletter (December 1973 - December 1989), Boulder County Audubon Newsletter (February 1990-October 1991), and finally On The Wing starting in November 1991.

Please note that some issues of the newsletter had the wrong year, volume number, or issue number printed on them. The archive titles below represent the corrected information and may differ from what was originally printed in the newsletter.

1971-1974

1.1 March 1971
1.2 April 1971
1.3 August 1971
1.4 September 1971
1.5 October 1971
1.6 November 1971
1.7 December 1971

2.1 January 1972
2.2 February 1972
2.3 March 1972 - missing from archive
2.4 April 1972
2.5 May 1972
2.6 June 1972
2.7 July 1972
2.8 August 1972
2.9 September 1972
2.10 October 1972 - missing from archive
2.11 November 1972

3.1 January 1973
3.2 February 1973
3.3 March 1973
3.4 April 1973
3.5 May 1973
3.6 June 1973
3.7 September 1973
3.8 October 1973
3.9 November 1973
3.10 December 1973

4.1 January 1974
4.2 February 1974
4.3 March 1974
4.4 April 1974
4.5 May 1974
4.6 June 1974
4.7 July 1974
4.8 August 1974
4.9 September 1974
4.10 October 1974
4.11 November 1974
4.12 December 1974

A portion of the header for the newsletter from 1977 to 1987. Art by Narca Schor.

Artwork for the 1989 t-shirts sold to support Boulder Audubon Society. Image from newsletter 19.7.

Artwork of black bear in pine tree used to illustrate and article about the formation of CUB (Coloradans United for Bears) in newsletter 22.2, 1992.

A comparison of large, white birds of North America in flight and perched. The art and accompanying article appeared in the newsletter No. 16.5, 1986. Art by Chuck Ripper.

A handy diagram to help identify the different swans we can see in Colorado. Pay attention to the head and bill shape! Art and accompanying article appear in the newsletter No.20.10, 1990, and is authored by Charles Peck.