Re: [cobirds] AOU, Changing bird names

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Thank you, Diana Beatty. Finally my thoughts exactly expressed on this list, and expressed beautifully.How this discussion ever became either names OR conservation is puzzling indeed. They are not mutually exclusive goals.I believe in both respect and conservation. And personally, since learning more about some ugly behaviors of Townsend, I won’t feel respectful about applying that name to the warbler I love.Carol Blackardcarolblackard.comSent from my iPhoneOn Nov 4, 2023, at 10:57 AM, Diana Beatty  wrote:We don't have to cast this as an either/ or discussion.  We can care about the birds and conservation and also care about how naming conventions affect those who are often disenfranchised.  While I appreciate the concern of some that name changes are an effort to hide history, I disagree.  First of all, the scientific names are currently still remaining eponymous.  Second, all the birds that aren't eponymously named aren't concealing any history by being so-named.  The history remains available to all who want to know it, and if we are concerned these individuals will somehow be forgotten or remembered in some inaccurate way, having a bird name or not doesn't address that issue one way or another.  Usually those who are interested in name changes are so interested not because of trying to sanitize history or demonize historical figures, but rather to allow for the expansion of our historical lens to include those who are often left out or seen as less important.  People often talk the talk about wanting to make birding more inclusive, and this is one pretty small thing in that direction.  While some may find it silly or not the most effective step,  the fact that it is meaningful and important to some people should be respected.  We can't tell people we want to be more inclusive for them and then disregard what they ask for to feel included. We do birds no favors by trying to put this issue against conservation or other important issues.  We have room and capacity for more than one issue at a time, and the reality is that the future of birds in part depends on more people caring about birds, and thus inclusivity is essential for bird survival.We can see this as an exciting opportunity for bird names to become useful in understanding something about the birds.   Diana BeattyEl Paso CountyOn Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 9:06 AM Dan Zmolek  wrote:The conservation point is that, when you decide whether to support an organization, it is better to look at their actual track record in getting positive outcomes for the birds.  And there really should be a lot more discussion of wildlife protection than these side issues.  You can keep arguing about the name after the bird is extinct, but what’s the point.   But the bird name topic is interesting.  I would recommend the book : Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names.  That gives a neat account of English bird names and how various folks have been trying to standardize them ever since.  In particular, it was interesting to read about MacGuillivray’s work.  And the number of cool folk names that have been left by the wayside, but should be brought back - such as firetail for redstart.   One thing is sure, the same group that brought the Mew gull debacle will likely not handle these re-names very well either.   Probably will be a good market for a browser extension to fix whatever dumb names come out next…Dan ZmolekLongmontOn Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 7:31:35 AM UTC-6 Stacie West wrote:Where is the idea that changing some bird names means that conserving birds and their habitats coming from? An ad hoc committee was formed. It didn't take over the rest of the work of the AOS, other birding organizations, and a growing number of birders in the US and world. Perhaps this movement to consider the names and legacies of these early ornithologists will lead to efforts to not erase but continue to educate and repair.Since a few commenters shared: I'm 41 and began birding just over 3 years ago, and I'm delighted to hopefully have so much life left to continue to enjoy it and advocate for birds and their habitats. Birding has continued to evolve and advance how I approach my profession as an urban planner, and I'm grateful. With the zeal of a newcomer, I've also enjoyed welcoming others into the joy of birding. How wonderful that, from time to time, we can evaluate things like names and their meaning or impacts, consider additional information or perspectives, and learn from different ways of looking at the world. I suppose being a newbie makes it easier to accept change, but I also enjoyed my first experience birding in another country this year and learning about common names in other languages. What a delight to be able to tickle our neurons with expansive and inclusive thinking.Happy birding,Stacie WestDenverOn Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 12:25 AM SeEttaM  wrote:This amounts to nothing more than an attempt to 'white-wash' ornithology---to 

[cobirds] Cordilleran Flycatcher/in Centennial, Arapahoe Cty

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Hello,
The bird I wrote in about yesyerday returned just now to our neighbors’ back 
yard across the street. I only heard it singing this time. I looked on Cornell 
website and now feel it is a Cordilleran Flycatcher. The song on Cornell’s site 
is identical and I see light outer tail feathers pictured on the singing video 
that are exactly what I saw yesterday.
So, I gonna count as a new yard bird.

I would love it if it decided to nest under our neighbors’ deck.

Carol Blackard
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[cobirds] Please be on the look-out nr Colorado Blvd and Mineral in Centennial, Arapahoe Cty

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Hi, 
We just saw a light yellow-breasted bird (beak to vent)with two wing bars 
exhibiting flycatcher behavior from our Austrian Pine 15-30 ft from our seats 
on the deck. I thought Cordilleran, which would be a new yard bird for us. We 
got no good look at the eye.
Good news and bad news. It was singing, always just two notes, high-pitched 
with the second note
almost an octave higher than the first. Timbre: sweet, whistling, light-weight. 
Definitely sounded more like partial song Pacific-Slope than Cordilleran.
Also caveat: looked like white or lighter outer tail feathers and Sibley 
doesn’t show that for either bird.
Just watch/listen if you are near here. It is very singy and perching in the 
lower and outer branches.

Carol Blackard
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Re: [cobirds] Goldfinch seed feeding behavior

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Jim,My regular pair are exclusively in the thistle feeder sock, just more often than ever before.Carol Blackardcarolblackard.comSent from my iPhoneOn May 29, 2023, at 2:13 PM, Jim Tyler  wrote:
  


  
  
Birders -
  
  I’ve noticed a change in Goldfinch (both American and Lesser)
  behavior over the past 6 years or so.
  
  I live in Roxborough Village, and going back 5-6 years, we had a
  dramatic increase in the numbers of Goldfinches. Two foot-tall
  mesh thistle feeders would be covered with a dozen Goldfinches
  each, with easily a dozen or more waiting to feed. It was normal
  for them to consume 1/2 to 2/3 of the seed from each feeder daily.
  
  Local populations crashed roughly 3-4 years ago, with almost no
  Goldfinches showing up at my feeders. Oddly, at that time, I
  noticed that the remaining Goldfinches had gravitated to my
  (shelled) sunflower seed feeders. This continued for a roughly 3
  years, with only one or two Goldfinches showing up at a time.
  
  So far, this seemed normal as populations shift, and Goldfinches
  are known to eat sunflowers, but they were completely ignoring my
  thistle feeders.
  
  This year has brought more Goldfinches - as many as 10 at a time -
  but the unusual thing is that they ALL are eating sunflower seeds
  and ALL ignoring my thistle feeders.
  
  I dumped all my older seed and have completely refilled my thistle
  feeders twice, and have moved one to the front yard, but the
  Goldfinches continue to eschew my thistle feeders and in both
  front and back yards now exclusively eat sunflower seeds.
  
  At the same time, House Finches are also ignoring my thistle
  feeders.
  
  While it’s possible I’ve purchased a bad or old batch of thistle,
  I’d like to think that the bird supply retailer I use hasn’t
  received bad seed.
  
  So my question to the group is whether anyone else is seeing
  Goldfinches at their feeders refusing to eat thistle?
  
  Thanks!
  
  Jim Tyler

  




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[cobirds] Lamar Community College, Prowers Cry

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Hi, all,

Today Lamar CC yielded Blue Grosbeak, Northern Cardinal ( w mate hanging with 
but not  well seen), Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler,
Mississippi Kite, Western Wood Peewee, Gray Catbird (3) Brown Thrasher.

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[cobirds] So many birds

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Hi all. We’re at Hasty Campground and JJ Cty Rd today.
We haven’t seen so many birds in a long time, incl. Blue Grosbeaks, Black 
Terns, Golden Eagle, Western Tanager, Burrowing Owls (4), Bullock’s Orioles, 
Lark Buntings, Yellow Warblers, Swainson’s Thrushes, Yellow-Rumped Warblers, 
Mockingbirds, Eastern and Western Kingbirds and others. What fun is this!

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[cobirds] Red-headed Woodpeckers

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My husband and I always enjoyed a few days at Bonnie Lake State Park before it 
was drained. We went every year in August mainly to see the Red-headed 
Woodpeckers, both mature and immature, that had used the old dying cottonwoods 
in the north side of the lake.
Juvenile Swainson Hawks were usually practicing their thermal flying over the 
dam at the same time.
Beautiful memories.
 
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[cobirds] Arap Cty suburban sidewalk

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These are pictures of the unfortunate dead bird I found yesterday and forgot to 
attach to my email. 

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[cobirds] Arap cty suburban sidewalk

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Hello,
Do y’all think this is a snipe, immature? Found on front sidewalk of house in 
our neighborhood. There is a trickle of water in a designer stream within a 
block. 
Would it have been migrating? It has a bloody splotch on its flank. Predator’s 
claw? The bill may have gotten broken on its fall to the ground?

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[cobirds] Black Witch Moth? Arap Cty

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Hello,
We’re guessing at the ID. It was Not a bird, but apparently a migrant, that 
absolutely took our breath away yesterday afternoon. A huge dark moth or 
butterfly bounced around between our large full sized windows and our bird 
strike lines  (installed 2-3 feet out and hanging from our eves). It went back 
and forth two or three times right smack at our eye level, took a 20 sec break, 
then came back and did it again. After that it was not seen again. We thought 
it must be a ginormous moth, but also made note that the body was so big and 
the wingspan at least 6 inches and pointed in shape that it “almost looked like 
a bat.”
It was a downright spooky-looking thing and it didn’t cross our minds to go 
outside and see if it might be resting under our eaves. We did not invite it in 
either.
We have never seen anything like it in this country (and frankly don’t remember 
this particular creature from our trips to the tropics either).

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Re: [cobirds] Pyrrhuloxia diet

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It’s still a couple of weeks early for the Quince to be really budding up. When 
I see the bushtits getting interested in it in a couple of weeks or so, I’ll 
check carefully for aphids and scaly stuff. However, last year I was able to 
see actual petals in their beaks on a few occasions, so I did decide they were 
after flower buds.

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> On Feb 14, 2022, at 8:29 PM, Jennifer Powell  wrote:
> 
> 
> We have some shrubby wild plums that grow around our yard and every spring I 
> see birds, usually house finches, methodically going up and down the stems 
> eating early flower buds one after another.
> 
> Jennifer Powell
> 
> Jeffco, near Standley Lake
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/14/2022 9:27 AM, 'Carol Blackard' via Colorado Birds wrote:
>> Lateral but still birdy shift here: I’ve been watching bushtits picking off 
>> and downing buds from our Flowering Quince bushes in March for years, 
>> sometimes chickadees. At first I thought they might be going for insect 
>> larvae, but I now think it’s the flower buds.
>> 
>> Carol Blackard
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>>> On Feb 14, 2022, at 9:16 AM, DAVID A LEATHERMAN  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At least four people have sent me pics or descriptions of house finches at 
>>> or near the pyrrhuloxia yard eating tree parts and have said the 
>>> pyrrhuloxia was associating with the finches for a lengthy period of time, 
>>> maybe doing the same thing.  The "tree parts" are buds.  Trees have two 
>>> primary types of buds: flower buds and leaf buds.  At this time of year the 
>>> flower buds, which are first to open for most types of trees, swell.  As 
>>> such they are nutritional sinks and a valuable source of bird food, 
>>> especially for finches, cardinals and the like.  The tree shown in the pics 
>>> I've received looks like Siberian elm, a tree that has been flowering 
>>> earlier and earlier in my experience.  In recent years I have seen a few 
>>> elm flowers in late February, with March being the peak.  It would be cool 
>>> if somebody could document the pyrrhuloxia eating Siberian elm flower buds. 
>>>  Birds actively consuming large numbers of buds, which is a messy 
>>> operation, often show considerable "debris" on their beaks.  Maybe one of 
>>> you has a photo of the pyrrhuloxia with a messy beak and it could be 
>>> determined if the mess is from sunflower seed or tree buds.  A photo of the 
>>> pyrrhuloxia actually putting its beak down to a twig with swollen dark 
>>> brown buds would be better proof.
>>> 
>>> We all know animals are opportunists.  Studying fox squirrels over the 
>>> years, I have long thought one could pretty accurately predict the order in 
>>> which our urban trees flower and/or leaf out by noting the tree species 
>>> when one sees squirrels chowing down on buds and dropping the worked over 
>>> twigs.  The squirrels favoring one kind of tree this week will most likely 
>>> be in a different type of tree next week.  Keep track of the sequence and I 
>>> think it would be a good match to the flowering/leafing sequence for that 
>>> same set of trees weeks hence.  Somehow, probably related to smell in the 
>>> case of squirrels, they know where to get the biggest bang for the bite.  
>>> The pattern doesn't seem quite as clearcut for birds.  My thought would be 
>>> that birds are going by visual clues (i.e., watching for swelling which 
>>> indicates a recent or on-going investment in the growing points by the 
>>> plant), and that visual assessment might not be as precise as the aromatic 
>>> acuity possessed by squirrels.
>>> 
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Re: [cobirds] Pyrrhuloxia diet

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Lateral but still birdy shift here: I’ve been watching bushtits picking off and 
downing buds from our Flowering Quince bushes in March for years, sometimes 
chickadees. At first I thought they might be going for insect larvae, but I now 
think it’s the flower buds.

Carol Blackard
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> On Feb 14, 2022, at 9:16 AM, DAVID A LEATHERMAN  wrote:
> 
> 
> At least four people have sent me pics or descriptions of house finches at or 
> near the pyrrhuloxia yard eating tree parts and have said the pyrrhuloxia was 
> associating with the finches for a lengthy period of time, maybe doing the 
> same thing.  The "tree parts" are buds.  Trees have two primary types of 
> buds: flower buds and leaf buds.  At this time of year the flower buds, which 
> are first to open for most types of trees, swell.  As such they are 
> nutritional sinks and a valuable source of bird food, especially for finches, 
> cardinals and the like.  The tree shown in the pics I've received looks like 
> Siberian elm, a tree that has been flowering earlier and earlier in my 
> experience.  In recent years I have seen a few elm flowers in late February, 
> with March being the peak.  It would be cool if somebody could document the 
> pyrrhuloxia eating Siberian elm flower buds.  Birds actively consuming large 
> numbers of buds, which is a messy operation, often show considerable "debris" 
> on their beaks.  Maybe one of you has a photo of the pyrrhuloxia with a messy 
> beak and it could be determined if the mess is from sunflower seed or tree 
> buds.  A photo of the pyrrhuloxia actually putting its beak down to a twig 
> with swollen dark brown buds would be better proof.
> 
> We all know animals are opportunists.  Studying fox squirrels over the years, 
> I have long thought one could pretty accurately predict the order in which 
> our urban trees flower and/or leaf out by noting the tree species when one 
> sees squirrels chowing down on buds and dropping the worked over twigs.  The 
> squirrels favoring one kind of tree this week will most likely be in a 
> different type of tree next week.  Keep track of the sequence and I think it 
> would be a good match to the flowering/leafing sequence for that same set of 
> trees weeks hence.  Somehow, probably related to smell in the case of 
> squirrels, they know where to get the biggest bang for the bite.  The pattern 
> doesn't seem quite as clearcut for birds.  My thought would be that birds are 
> going by visual clues (i.e., watching for swelling which indicates a recent 
> or on-going investment in the growing points by the plant), and that visual 
> assessment might not be as precise as the aromatic acuity possessed by 
> squirrels.
> 
> Memberships in the CSFTEA (Colorado Society For The Easily Amused) are free.  
> Join today.
> 
> Dave Leatherman
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Re: [cobirds] Pyrrhuloxia diet

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Thank you, David for the dietary information on the pyrrhuloxia. Interesting as 
always.

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> On Feb 13, 2022, at 9:29 PM, DAVID A LEATHERMAN  wrote:
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> 
> Carol, Linda and anyone else interested, I have cut and pasted below the 
> section on pyrrhuloxia diet from the "Birds of the World" account by Robert 
> Tweit and Christopher Thompson.
> 
> Photos I have seen of the current Colorado bird show it at a black oil 
> sunflower feeder.  The fruits of hackberry are technically called drupes.  At 
> this time of year the reddish pulp of each fruit is mostly eroded/withered 
> and what remains is a hard pit dangling from a thin stalk (or resting on the 
> ground).  I see more birds eating the fresh fruits in late summer/autumn, 
> probably for their pulp mostly, with the pits being excreted.  However, I 
> have seen a few birds like juncos and house finches eating the fruits of 
> hackberry in winter when they must be crunching the rock-hard seeds.  
> Pyrrhuloxias certainly appear to have the beak to handle hard seeds, so 
> perhaps the association with hackberry is more than just positioning for a 
> feeder visit.  Verification welcome.
> 
> Dave Leatherman
> Fort Collins
> 
> Diet
> Major Food Items
> In Texas, wide variety of seeds, including bristle grass (Setaria spp.), 
> doveweed (Croton texensis), sandbur (Cenchrus spp.), panicum (Panicum spp.), 
> sorghum, and pigweed (Chenopodium album), and fruits of cactus (Opuntia spp.) 
> and nightshade (Solanum spp.), as well as grasshoppers, caterpillars 
> (Lepidoptera), beetles (Coleoptera), stinkbugs (Pentatomidae), and cicadas 
> (Cicadidae). McAtee (McAtee 1908a) suggested that Pyrrhuloxia prefers 
> grasshoppers to caterpillars to beetles and eats much less fruit than 
> Northern Cardinal does.
> 
> In s. Arizona, prefers sunflower (Helianthus spp.) seeds and “peanut butter 
> suet” at feeders, although also eats other seeds and household scraps 
> (Anderson 1968).
> 
> Quantitative Analysis
> From McAtee 1908a . In Aug and Sep, stomachs collected in Texas contained 
> 71.2% vegetable matter and 28.8% animal matter. Most of the vegetable matter 
> (53.1% of total) was “grass seeds,” primarily yellow foxtail (Chaetecholoa 
> glauca) and bur grass (Cenchrus tribuloides), which provide 43.6% of total 
> food. Other weed seeds included crabgrass (Syntherisma spp.), joint grass 
> (Paspalum spp.), and wire grass (Eleusine indica). Seeds of a spurge (Croton 
> sp.) made up 9.8% of diet. Of the remaining seeds, only sorghum made 
> measurable contribution (2.0%). Animal matter made up of beetles (4.7%) 
> (mainly weevils [3.4%], including cotton boll weevil [Anthononus grandis]), 
> caterpillars (10.3%, including cotton worm [Alabama argillacea]), and cotton 
> cutworm (Prodenia ornithogalli). Grasshoppers made up 11.5% and true bugs 
> (Hemiptera) 1.5%.
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Re: [cobirds] Pyrrhuloxia YES

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I’m curious. Are there any berries in the immediate vicinity?

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> On Feb 13, 2022, at 7:21 AM, Josh Bruening <87211...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> All,
> 
> The Pyrrhuloxia is still present this Sunday morning.  It showed at 7:12am.
> 
> Josh Bruening
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>>> On Feb 12, 2022, at 3:44 PM, Larry Modesitt  wrote:
>>> 
>> The male is still present in backyard by feeder. 
>>  Larry Modesitt 
>> Arvada
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 On Feb 12, 2022, at 12:47 PM, Evan Wilder  wrote:
 
>>> Good views at 12-12:15 pm in the yard between houses and on a feeder in 
>>> the yard of 1232.
>>> 
>>> - Evan
>>> Littleton
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> On Feb 12, 2022, at 7:55 AM, Nathan Pieplow  wrote:
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 The Pyrrhuloxia photographed yesterday in Denver is still present this 
 morning. In a weedy yard at the south end of 1228 Newton. There is street 
 parking in the neighborhood.
 
 Nathan Pieplow
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Re: [cobirds] Re: [wsbn] Brown-capped rosy finch behavior

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I once witnessed a Cooper’s Hawk killing of a juvenile Blue Jay and the grief 
of its parent that about broke my heart.
The Cooper fled over my yard and for some reason dropped its prey. The parent 
had been chasing and squawking after the Cooper, but stopped and perched on a 
tree limb when it saw the fledgling on the ground. The parent began to call 
loudly to the bird, but after awhile the tone of the call changed dramatically 
and became what I would describe as a slurred, gentle wailing. It cried over 
that dead baby for at least 15 minutes and was just heart-breaking to hear. 
Finally it flew away quietly and I dried my eyes.

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> Glad you all were able to witness this behavior.
> It's sad, but how incredibly interesting that they are so very social and 
> bonded.
> I was able to watch this behavior a couple times; once in Southern Africa 
> with lesser striped swallows doing what looked like trying to revive their 
> dead comrade and then a black-billed magpie gathering.  BTW - do you need any 
> window treatments to prevent this from happening again? I have tons of 
> samples.
> Thanks for sharing!
> Mary
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>> Hello-
>> I've continued to host rosy finches in my yard at 8000 feet in Snowmass 
>> Village, up to 500 birds at a time of three species.  Today, unfortunately, 
>> two of the Brown-capped rosy-finches crashed into a window and died.  What 
>> followed was sad and remarkable.  For about the next hour, up to perhaps 200 
>> of the finches gathered in the trees around the two dead finches.  They 
>> would descend and gather immediately around the birds, up to 100 at a time 
>> and linger next to the dead finches.  On occasion one of the finches would 
>> land on top of one of the dead birds, flapping its wings, reminiscent of 
>> copulation, or, as my 10-year-old son put it, "doing CPR."  This continued 
>> for about an hour or so.  I don't think that any of the attending birds were 
>> Gray-crowned or Black rosy-finches but I'm not totally sure of that.  It 
>> reminds me of the behavior of mourning elephants that linger around the body 
>> of a dead relative, as I've seen on nature documentaries.  My children took 
>> a brief video of the experience.  
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[cobirds] Bullock’s Oriole Arapahoe backyard

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Good morning.

We’ve lived in our house near Colorado Blvd and County Line Road for 30 years 
and had our very first oriole last year. This morning we had one again. We 
weren’t very prepared but he (full-blown male) had a peanut, seemed to get it 
down the hatch, hung around for about 10 minutes, trying and failing to get 
into the hummingbird feeder. Well, sigh, now we have the oriole feeder, 
oranges, and jelly out, but he’s gone. 

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[cobirds] What a day! Arapahoe County

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Hi all,
Today In our suburban back yard near Colorado Blvd and County Line Rd we had 
our usual 3-4 Magpies, 3-4 Blue Jays, 10-12 House Finches, 3-4 Spotted Towhees, 
a Red-breasted and a White-breasted Nuthatch, 4-6 Juncos, 3 Lesser Goldfinches, 
and Chickadees (probably both species because both visit our yard daily and 
breed in the neighborhood). In addition, we had 3 Robins, a Townsend’s 
Solitaire, a White-throated Sparrow, a Chipping Sparrow, and a new yard bird, a 
Field Sparrow. Our Downy Woodpeckers didn’t show up today, but a Fox 
did...twice! First fox in many years. This was a big thrill for us! No Brown 
Creeper today, but we’ve had one in the yard twice in the past 2 weeks.

Happy Birding!

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[cobirds] We love our outdoors, too

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Hear hear, John Malenich!!

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Re: [cobirds] Great Horned Owl duet last night

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I think duetting during courtship is a little different from what I hear after 
eggs are hatched and during owlet season. Duetting is often characterized by 
the “answer” coming on top of the “question”, sort of an eagerness, if you 
will. Later calls seem more spaced out, more relaxed...and it sounds like the 
parties are further apart.

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> On Apr 7, 2020, at 7:30 AM, Scott  wrote:
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> It may have been the pair calling because one of the eggs just hatched, or 
> maybe there was some danger near the nest.
> 
> Scott Rashid
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> On 4/5/2020 6:51 AM, David Gulbenkian wrote:
>> 3:45 - 4:00 AM.  So far past the usual mating time, what might this signify?
>> A failed nest, causing the owls to start again?
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Re: [cobirds] Great Horned Owl duet last night

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I hear them duetting a lot in spring and summer. I always imagine it’s hunting 
and owlet feeding related communications.

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> On Apr 5, 2020, at 9:42 AM, 'Peter Ruprecht' via Colorado Birds 
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> I believe that nesting pairs will hoot to each other when they switch 
> incubation duties, bring in food, etc.  Usually this hooting is less 
> extensive than during courtship and territory establishment.  Do you know if 
> you have a nest nearby?
> 
> I also occasionally hear hooting at any time of the year, and not necessarily 
> in an established territory, so maybe sometimes they're just talking to each 
> other ... ?
> 
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> On Sunday, April 5, 2020, 6:52:01 AM MDT, David Gulbenkian 
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> 3:45 - 4:00 AM.  So far past the usual mating time, what might this signify?
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[cobirds] Not life as usual

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Dear birders,

I agree with reducing the temptation to chase birds in our time of Corvid-19 
crisis. As citizen scientists and Colorado defenders we would do well to shout 
out our support of strict stay-at-home practices. 

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[cobirds] Reference book recommendations, please

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Hi, all,
Juvenile and female hummers are swarming the yard and frying my brain. My 
long-standing approach has been the same head-in-the-sand approach I take to 
gull ID , but I’ve finally come to the conclusion that I need a good book on 
hummingbird ID, especially No American birds, and focused on juveniles and 
females. I’ll need a picture book, please, but full-on comprehensive and 
detailed, please.  Sibleys and Cornell not enough. 
Thanks in advance for any reference recommendation.

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[cobirds] Chipping Sparrows breeding Arapahoe County

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Hi all,
 Our Centennial, Arapahoe Cty neighborhood now has a pair of breeding Chipping 
Sparrows.

Last summer I oddly kept hearing a Chipping Sparrow sing all through June. This 
year our first Chipping Sparrow arrived to our ash tree singing exuberantly and 
unceasingly while other ChSp spent their two weeks break here eating on the 
giant dandelion patch across the street. Eventually there was the expected 
migratory exodus, except for the singing bird who seemed to have settled in 
down the street a few houses. Today I watched an adult ChSp feeding a juvenile 
in plain view on the ground 12 feet away.
So, Chipping Sparrows join Bushtits and  Mountain Chickadees as more recent 
breeders  in our urban neighborhood. We live near Colorado Blvd and Mineral in 
Centennial.

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[cobirds] Cobirds has dropped

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I’ve lost cobirds. Can you reinstate me.

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[cobirds] Hermit persists/Arap Cty

['Carol Blackard' via Colorado Birds]

Hi,
Hermit Thrush here again. Flicks wings a lot. In company of Robins, House 
Finches, Lesser Goldfinches.

Carol Blackard
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