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
>
>
>  

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