Hello, Birders. Yesterday afternoon, Friday, Dec. 11th, I saw and heard a probable Chihuahuan Raven flying over Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County. I'm not certain, but it sounded good for Chihuahuan, and then it looked good, size-wise, proportion-wise, and wingflap-wise. Couldn't see the diagnostic bill-feathering or white-based neck-feathers, though, so I'm not certain. All the same, I think it will be good for folks to be on the lookout this coming CBC season for supposedly out-of-range Chihuahuan Ravens, for example, in the San Luis Valley and in the northern Front Range region. At the same time, be careful and "conservative"! Ravens are fiendishly difficult. They make gulls, empids, and even first-cycle female rosy-finches downright easy in comparison. There is no shame in entering "raven sp." on your CBC form; conversely, there is terrible, everlasting shame--a fire that is never quenched--in writing down Chihuahuan Raven your the bird was, in fact, a Common. So let's all be on the lookout for Chihuahuan Ravens, and let's all be careful. -------------------------------
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