Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: August 24, 2016
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, August 24, sponsored by Denver
Field
Ornithologists an
d the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE: The RBA is using the new AOU checklist and the order of the
famillies has changed
Mallard (Mexican) (Larimer)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Clear Creek)
Gunnison Sage-Grouse (Gunnison)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (Eagle)
Dusky Grouse (Boulder)
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Logan)
Greater Roadrunner (Baca, Denver, Otero)
Black Swift (Boulder)
Snowy Plover (Alamosa)
Mew Gull (Larimer)
WESTERN GULL (Alamosa, Washington)
Thayer's Gull (Washington)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Alamosa, Weld)
Caspian Tern (Douglas, *Jefferson, Larimer)
Pacific Loon (El Paso)
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (Montrose)
Little Blue Heron (Boulder)
Green Heron (Huerfano, Larimer, Mesa, Washington)
Mississipi Kite (Adams)
Broad-winged Hawk (*Adams)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Boulder)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, El Paso, Pueblo,
Washington, Yuma)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (Logan, Yuma)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Mesa, *Pueblo)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Boulder, Eagle, Larimer, Mesa, Park)
ALDER FLYCATCHER (Weld, Yuma)
Least Flycatcher (*Adams, Washington, *Weld, Yuma)
Gray Flycatcher (Arapahoe, *Denver, El Paso, Gunnison, Kit Carson,
*Larimer, *Pitkin)
Black Phoebe (*Pueblo)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Lincoln, Yuma)
Cassin's Kingbird (Boulder, Lincoln)
Chihuahuan Raven (Otero)
Pacific Wren (Boulder)
Carolina Wren (Washington)
Sage Thrasher (*Clear Creek)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (*Clear Creek)
McCown's Longspur (Lincoln, Weld)
Ovenbird (Arapahoe)
Northern Waterthrush (*El Paso, Larimer, *Pueblo, Washington)
Tennessee Warbler (Yuma)
Nashville Warbler (*Jefferson, *Weld)
Pine Warbler (Prowers)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (*Larimer, *Pitkin)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Northern Cardinal (Kit Carson, Prowers, Yuma)
Baltimore Oriole (Yuma)
*For locations you are not familiar with (e.g. "Lower Latham"), please
refer to CFO's Colorado County Birding site for directions:
www.coloradocountybirding.org
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On August 24, staff at Rocky Mt Arsenal NWR reported 2 Broad-winged
Hawks and Least Flycatcher.
---On August 22, a Red-headed Woodpecker was reported by Loch Kilpatrick on
E 96th Ave east of DIA.
---On August 22, a Mississippi Kit was reported by Loch Kilpatrick east of
Bennett on Old Victory Road.
ALAMOSA COUNTY:
---On August 23, David Dowel reported 3 Snowy Plovers, WESTERN GULL, and
Lesser Black-backed Gull at Blanca Wetlands.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On August 22, a Red-headed Woodpecker was reported by Ivan Mota near
Byers on Hwy 40.
---On August 20, Glenn Walbek reported Gray Flycatcher and 3 Ovenbirds at
Cherry Creek SP.
---On August 14, Gene Rutherford reported Red-headed Woodpecker on CO 36
west of Byers.
BACA COUNTY:
---On August 14, 2 Greater Roadrunners were reported by Chris Goulart on CR
8.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On August 22, a juv Little Blue Heron was reported by Carl Starace at
Walden Ponds in Boulder.
---OnAugust 17, a Cassin's Kingbird was reported by Christian Nunes on
South Campus of University of Colorado.
---On August 7 at Heil Valley Ranch, Carl Starace reported 3 Lewis's
Woodpeckers and 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers. On August 18, a Red-headed
Woodpecker was reported by Jeff Parks at Heil Valley Ranch.
---On August 6 in Shadow Canyon, Andy Cowell reported m American Three-toed
Woodpecker in the lower part of the canyon and a Dusky Grouse at the top of
the canyon.
---On June 24 a singing stub-tailed wren (Winter/Pacific) was reported by
Steve Mlodinow in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP just N of bridge that leads
away from Calypso Cascade towards Ouzel Falls. On June 28, a Pacific Wren
was reported by Bill Rowe just below Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin of
Rocky Mt NP. On July 4, Kathy Mihm Dunning reported Pacific Wren at
Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP. On July 9 at Wild Basin in
Rocky Mt NP, David Dowell reported Pacific Wren, Black Swift on nest, 2
American Three-toed Woodpeckers. On July 16, at Wild Basin, Ouzel Falls in
Rocky Mountain NP, Nick Moore reported Pacific Wren. On July 19 Tim Mitzen
reported Pacific Wren near Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP.
On July 23 Chris Gilbert reported Pacific Wren at Ouzel Falls in Wild Basin
of Rocky Mt NP. On July 20, Todd Deininger reported Pacific Wren at
Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP. On July 24 Christian Nunes
reported 2 Black Swifts and 4 Pacific Wrens at Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP.
On July 29, Sue Riffe reported Pacific Wren, 2 American Three-toed
Woodpeckers and 7 Black Swifts at Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP. On August
10, Peter Gent reported a juvenile Black Swift on nest under the overhand
west of Ouzel Falls in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP.
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:
---On August 24 at Mount Evans, Sean Fitzgerald reported Sage Thrasher and
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