Hello, Birders. I'm pretty sure we're all well aware by now that a Ross's Gull was found last month at Cherry Creek State Park, Arapahoe County... ;)
Now pause for a moment to consider the role that COBirds played in getting the word out about the Cherry Creek Ross's Gull. Up-to-the-minute updates appeared routinely on COBirds; if the bird was moving around, you may well have heard it here first. Here on COBirds, we discussed tips for finding and identifying the bird; we discussed its age and plumage; we discussed the cultural and ornithological significance of the bird. I, personally, most enjoyed Joe Roller's breathlessly communicated recap of his pirating of some dude's fishing boat so as to obtain diagnostic photos of the gull. Yes, COBirds made a huge difference in the story of this "2010 Bird of the Year." (Or was the El Paso County Snowy Owl the "2010 Bird of the Year"? Well, if so, then COBirds played an equally important role in that story.) Which brings me around to my point: COBirds IS PROVIDED BY COLORADO FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS (CFO) AS A SERVICE TO THE BIRDING COMMUNITY. Pretend for a moment that CFO provided nothing except COBirds. It costs $25 per year to be a member of CFO. If you got ONLY COBirds as a result of being a CFO member, you'd be paying a little bit less than 7 cents per day for this fabulous resource. Isn't the support of COBirds sufficient reason alone to join and support CFO? Of course, there is vastly more to CFO than providing COBirds. The two biggies, as most of us know, are: (1) the outstanding quarterly birding/ornithological journal Colorado Birds, which I consider to be one of the finest of all regional bird journals; (2) CFO's annual gala event, the always fun, festive, and educational (and very birdy!) annual CFO convention. But it's important to realize, too, that CFO is an important cause: CFO provides youth scholarships for our outstanding young birders; CFO provides financial support to such worthy initiatives as the Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas and the Denver Museum's ornithology fellow program; and, most important even though it is an "intangible," CFO is the heart and soul of the family of birders all across the state of Colorado. And yet I've been informed that one or two COBirds subscribers (more like several *hundred* of you) aren't yet members of CFO. This is a baffling mystery to me. I'm sure it's just an oversight on your part. Anyhow: JOIN COLORADO FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS TODAY! You owe it to yourself to do so. Here's how: http://www.cfo-link.org/contact/index.php#join For more general info on CFO (and note that I've only scraped the tip of the iceberg here), check out: http://www.cfo-link.org/index.php Thanks! Ted Floyd, CFO Board Member ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Blog: http://tinyurl.com/2g2staq Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2wj9djj Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/2wkvwxs ------------------------------- -- 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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
