Mountain Plover Festival: Tiny Colorado town wants you to come search for rare birds

Dozens of bird watchers will travel to a tiny Colorado town this month to spot a super rare bird. The Mountain Plover Festival is back from Friday, April 24, through Sunday, April 26.

Karval, an eastern Colorado town of about 35 people, invites adventurous and bird-loving individuals to the unique festival in one of North America’s largest breeding grounds of the elusive mountain plover.

The mountain plover is a rare bird that makes its nesting grounds on the dryland farming ranches in this area of Colorado.

Often referred to as the "ghost of the prairie," plovers blend in with the environment. The birds find the short grass prairie and fallow fields in the area to be excellent nesting grounds, where male and females each tend the nests.