The first day without a single warbler, not even a recapture. And our first day with a real mixed flock of Juncos - we spent time consulting our various sources of information to identify 13 Juncos, most of them young, of different populations. The most interesting one on whose ID we agreed upon was a young, female Slate-colored of the Canadian Rocky Mountain population (cismontanus/cassiar, see drawing in Sibley's). Then there was one that we gave up on and used the code UDEJ (unidentified Dark-eyed Junco). Here's the breakdown for the 25 birds banded:
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 Green-tailed Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 2 Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco, Slate-colored 1 Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 7 Dark-eyed Junco, Pink-sided 3 Dark-eyed Junco, Grey-headed 1 Dark-eyed Junco, unidentified 1 Meredith McBurney Bander, Barr Lake Station Bird Conservancy of the Rockies -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/bb0810aa-9363-49d2-91ae-14fe7079e69an%40googlegroups.com.
