Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: January 25, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, January 25, sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE: The RBA is using the new AOU checklist, & the order of families has
changed.
BRANT (Arapahoe)
Trumpeter Swan (*Douglas)
Tundra Swan (Bent, Boulder, *Delta, Larimer, *Weld)
White-winged Scoter (Arapahoe)
Long-tailed Duck (Douglas, Larimer)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Adams, Archuleta, Delta)
Red-necked Grebe (Boulder, Pueblo)
Greater Roadrunner (Otero)
Dunlin (*Douglas, Pueblo)
American Woodcock (Larimer)
Greater Yellowlegs (Bent)
Bonaparte's Gull (Douglas)
Mew Gull (Arapahoe)
Thayer's Gull (*Arapahoe, Bent)
ICELAND GULL (Arapahoe)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Adams, Arapahoe, El Paso, Pueblo)
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL (Araphaoe)
Glaucous Gull (*Arapahoe)
Great Black-backed Gull (*Arapahoe, Pueblo)
Double-crested Cormorant (Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Pueblo)
American White Pelican (Larimer)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Prowers)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Boulder, *Fremont, Prowers)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Otero)
Chihuahuan Raven (Lincoln, Otero)
Juniper Titmouse (*Fremont)
PACIFIC WREN (La Plata)
Bewick's Wren (Otero)
Carolina Wren (Prowers)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Pueblo, Weld)
American Pipit (Archuleta)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Pitkin, Teller)
Black Rosy-Finch (Pitkin, Teller)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Pitkin, Teller)
Lapland Longspur (Logan)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Canyon Towhee (*Fremont, Otero)
Lincoln's Sparrow (Boulder, Otero)
Northern Cardinal (Otero, Prowers)
Rusty Blackbird (Huerfano, Weld)
Brown-headed Cowbird (Bent, Otero)
*For directions to unfamiliar locations (e.g. "Lower Latham"), please
refer to CFO's Colorado County Birding site: www.coloradocountybirding.org
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On January 11 on South Platte River, 88th Ave area, Rebecca Laroche
reported 2 Barrow's Goldeneyes and 2 Double-crested Cormorants. On January
14, Chuck Hundertmark reported Double-crested Cormorant at 88th Ave and
South Platte River. On January 17 on South Platte River, 88th Ave area,
Matt Hofeditz reported 3 Barrow's Goldeneyes.
---On January 22 on South Platte River, 78th Ave area, Bill Kaempfer
reported 3 Barrow's Goldeneyes and 6 Double-crested Cormorants.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On January 17 at Aurora Reservoir, Loch Kilpatrick and Chuck Hundertmark
reported Black BRANT, White-winged Scoter, 3 Thayer's Gulls, 3 Lesser
Black-backed Gulls, Glaucous Gull and ad Great Black-backed Gull. On
January 18 at Aurora Reservoir, Sue Riffe, Karen Drozda and Rebecca Laroche
reported BRANT, 2 White-winged Scoters, 3 Thayer's Gulls, 3 Lesser
Black-backed Gulls, and Glaucous Gull. On January 19 at Aurora Reservoir,
Norm Lewis and Mark Minner-Lee reported BRANT, White-winged Scoter, Mew
Gull, 3 Thayer's Gulls, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and Glaucous Gull. On
January 21 at Aurora Reservoir, Glenn Walbek reported 6 Thayer's Gulls (3
ad, 3 1-st cyc), 12 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (5 ad, 1 4th-cyc, 2 2nd-cyc,
4 1-st cyc), 1-st cyc GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, Glaucous Gull, and 1-st cyc
Great Black-backed Gull. On January 21 at Aurora Reservoir, Dale Adams,
Glenn Walbek, and Dean Shoup reported BRANT, White-winged Scoter,
Double-crested Cormorant, Mew Gull, 11 Thayer's Gulls, 2 ICELAND GULLS (1
ad, 1 1st-cyc), 14 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULLS (2
1-st cyc), 1 Glaucous Gull, and 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (1 ad, 1 1-st
cyc). On January 22 at Aurora Reservoir, Matt Clark, Amy Davis, Frankie
Toan, and Luke Pheneger reported BRANT, 7 Thayer's Gulls, 2 ICELAND GULLS,
8 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, 2 Glaucous Gulls, and 2
Great Black-backed Gulls. On January 24 at Aurora Reservoir, Scott
Somershoe reported ad Thayer's Gull, 1-st cyc Glaucous Gull, and imm Great
Black-backed Gull.
---On January 22 on South Platte River Northern Wildlife Area to W Bowles,
Brian Johnson reported Double-crested Cormorant.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On January 23 on San Juan River Walk in Pagosa Spring, Ben Bailey
reported 6 Barrow's Goldeneyes and American Pipit.
BENT COUNTY:
---On January 22 at John Martin Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Tundra
Swan, Thayer's Gull, and 4 Brown-headed Cowbirds.
---On January 22 at Lake Hasty, Steve Mlodinow reported 6 Greater
Yellowlegs.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On January 12 at Valmont Overlook, Sue Riffe reported Red-necked Grebe. On
January 13 at Valmont Overlook, Norm Lewis reported Red-necked Grebe. On
January 18 at Valmont Overlook, Jim Nachel reported Red-necked Grebe.
---On January 21, Minday Musick King reported 3 Tundra Swans at Cottonwood
Marsh. On January 22, Chuck Hundertmark reported 3 Tundra Swans at
Cottonwood Marsh/Walden Ponds.
---On January 19 at Oligarchy Ditch Greenway, Bryan Guarente reported
Lincoln's Sparrow.
---On January 23 at Bohn Park in Lyons, David Dowell reported
