IF the San Luis Valley introduced Whooping Cranes are countable, then I am going to count a gallinaceous bird, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Delicious. Joe Roller, Denver
On Monday, October 13, 2014 8:38:27 PM UTC-6, Dave Leatherman wrote: > > Maybe it would be more appropriate for a spokesperson from the Colorado RC > to be saying this, but............. > > I appreciate the sleuthing done by several people to answer the question > posed as to when California Condors visited Colorado's Grand Mesa. It was > August 1998 when 3 birds wandered up from the introduced Arizona Grand > Canyon group. Since reproduction was not documented among these birds, > including their cohorts, until about 2004, according to the new ABA listing > rules, they were not countable in 1998 when in CO, or anywhere else until > 2004. Thus, they do NOT become our 499th species. > > Countable or not, the moment that semi-tame condor walked in the door and > surprised a USFS employee working INSIDE the under-rennovation Land's End > VC, had to be one of the more memorable human facial expressions in the > history of Colorado birds. > > Dave Leatherman > Fort Collins > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/0e36f941-5f2b-45cd-bd74-aa5f4cc180e0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
