Hi all, On 30 December 2010, right outside my front door in the Gunbarrel area of Boulder, my dog sniffed out the frozen carcass of a Dendroica warbler from under the snow. It was clearly not a Yellow-rumped. My initial ID was Black-throated Green; later I changed my mind to Townsend's Warbler. Today I took the carcass to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where collections manager Jeff Stephenson tentatively IDed the bird as a Blackpoll Warbler. The museum will be preserving and accessioning the study skin, so hopefully the identification can be confirmed down the road, and documentation submitted to the CBRC -- but for the moment, it looks like we just got the first-ever Colorado winter record of Blackpoll Warbler -- unfortunately, a posthumous one.
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