Date: 3 February 2011
e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
compiler: Allison Hilf
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 7am,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
If you are phoning in a message, you
While junco diversity is a bit lower here in Ohio (relative to
Colorado), I've seen a handful of Cassiar/cismontanus-type birds this
winter in the Columbus area. Dark-eyed Juncos are one of those
species/complexes that will probably always contain lots of exceptions
to any classification rules we
Hi all,
Just as a follow-up to Rob's recent post on the age/sex of the Colorado
Tufted Duck...after all the opinions that Rob included in his post were
originally posted to ID Frontiers, I heard again (privately) from Peter Pyle
who stands by his assertion that the bird is a SY male. Here is the
Andy Spellman, on Jan. 30, discovered a pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes at
Twenty-Mile Pond in Parker. I went there today, and the pair persists, even
through this cold weather. The ducks occupy a small puddle immediately below
the dike, right next to the parking lot -- they offer a fabulous
Hello, Birders.
Thanks to Tony Leukering for exhorting us to precision about molts and plumages
and such. Tony said:
I just have a slightly belated comment on
Ted's post about ageing American Robins.
Like most all thrush species, American Robins
conduct a complete or nearly-complete
Hi COBirders,
Following the thread on juncos at feeders this winter, we had a variety of
birds coming and going all day in the light snow. What I noticed especially
were some very different-looking birds, and could track individuals arriving
and leaving several different times, returning
Well, there I was on the phone at 3:30 this afternoon looking out my office
window in Regent Administrative Center (my friends tell me don't call it
Hall) when I see a small flock of 12-15 birds fly like a flock of peeps past
my office window. Waxwings! I see them drop down just past
