Colorado Public Radio (KCFR, 90.1 FM in Denver) will run a short squib on the CBC on Monday morning -- if we're lucky, a minute long instead of 30 seconds. Bob Lafley, working from a National Audubon press release, interviewed me over the phone about it. I was not brilliant, though I hope that with the magic of cutting & pasting, he makes it sound better than our raw conversation.
Anyway, it will include, I hope, information about how to get to the CBC website to sign up for counts (www.audubon.org/birds/cbc). I wish I'd had a script. Preparing for the interview, I did pull up some interesting items. * Somebody in Pueblo participated in the first count, Christmas afternoon, 1900. That list has 13 species, 242 individuals including 100 'Western Tree Sparrows. Last year Pueblo Res. had 121 species, whch included 10 species of gulls (9461 individuals). * The Denver count on Christmas Day 1934 counted 22 species, 593 individuals, including 300 Red-winged Blackbirds and 487 magpies. No geese at all. Last year Denver had 92 species, 94,113 individuals, including 16,244 Canada Geese. * Last year John Martin Res. counted 63,000 Snow and Ross's Geese plus 22,800 Canada and Cackling. * Last year CBCs occurred from tip to tip in the Western Hemisphere: Barrow Alaska to Antarctica. Read the article in the CBC publication about the Antarctica count -- it's almost like a mystery novel. * From data at the CBC site you can prepare graphs that show species trends from 1940 to date; for instance, in Denver, upward trends for Red-tailed Hawk and American Robin; sort of static for Townsend's Solitaire and slightly downward for Rough-legged Hawk. The last may tie in with the article in the CBC publication about how many species have shifted their CBC "Center of Abundance" to the north. Hugh Kingery -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
