Thanks, Nathan. Very helpful. Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 7, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Nathan Pieplow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I was asked to examine the recordings and photos of the meadowlark at Bud > Mielke Reservoir in May 2020. The call notes definitively rule out Western > Meadowlark, and the songs and (poor) photos are consistent with Chihuahuan, > so in my opinion that bird can safely be called a Chihuahuan Meadowlark. > > By contrast, the meadowlark at Heil Valley Ranch in Boulder earlier this > summer had 100% Western Meadowlark plumage, even though it sang only > Chihuahuan Meadowlark songs. It's not uncommon for the three meadowlark > species to learn each other's songs, so song alone is not sufficient to > identify them. If you are hearing a bird that sounds like a Chihuahuan > Meadowlark, you'll need recordings of the "dzert" call and/or good photos of > the bird (the face and, especially, the spread tail) in order to rule out the > other two species. > > Nathan Pieplow > Boulder > >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 10:57 PM Tyler Wilson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> What ended up being the consensus on the bird at Bud Mielke Res a couple of >> years ago (May 2020 i think)? >> >> Tyler Wilson >> Adams County >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Aug 3, 2022, at 9:29 PM, Peter Gent <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> All, >>> >>> The 63rd Supplement to the Check-list of North American birds from the >>> American Ornithological Society was published today in the journal >>> Ornithology. As Brandon already notified everyone, included in the changes >>> was the split of Eastern Meadowlark into Eastern and Chihuahuan >>> Meadowlarks. Chihuahuan Meadowlark includes the Lilian's race from Arizona >>> and New Mexico and another race from northern Mexico. The proposal for this >>> split was written by Johanna Beam, and is based mainly on a paper published >>> last year in Ornithology which has Johanna as the lead author. The research >>> for this paper was done when Johanna was an undergraduate student in >>> Biology at CU in Boulder, and she is now a PhD student in Biology at Penn >>> State University. I believe her interest in this subject started in 2015 >>> when she found some Lilian's race Eastern Meadowlarks on the north side of >>> McIntosh Lake in northwest Longmont, and submitted record 2015-089 to the >>> CBRC. Johanna is a Colorado young woman that all Colorado birders should >>> congratulate and take pride in. >>> >>> CBRC records for Eastern Meadowlarks are at: >>> https://cobrc.org/Reports/SpeciesDetail.aspx?id=463 There are 26 of them >>> going back nearly 50 years, and at least 3 refer explicitly to the Lilian's >>> race, which are 2005-22 from near the old Campo lek in Baca County, >>> 2006-103 from the Colorado City cemetery and 2015-089 from McIntosh Lake in >>> Longmont by Johanna Beam. Other records, especially 2003-33 and 2012-47 >>> from south Baca County, may well also refer to the Lilian's race. This will >>> be determined in the near future, so that the new Chihuahuan Meadowlark >>> will be well documented to have occurred in Colorado. 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