Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: October 13, 2014
email: r...@cfobirds.org
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Monday, October 13 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Surf Scoter
I went over to Lagerman on Saturday to find the Surf Scoter. It wasn't
there, but three White Pelicans were snoozing among the Canada Geese, Also
on Lagerman were 7 Western Grebes and 3 Double-Crested Cormorants. Also,
the Bald Eagle pair that nested south of Lagerman continues to use the
Maybe it would be more appropriate for a spokesperson from the Colorado RC to
be saying this, but.
I appreciate the sleuthing done by several people to answer the question posed
as to when California Condors visited Colorado's Grand Mesa. It was August
1998 when 3 birds wandered
There seems to be some people who didn't see any of Whooping Cranes (there have
only been a few -- though many people back in the 1990s saw the juvenile
Whooping Crane around Thurston Reservoir, in Prowers County) in eastern
Colorado, wanting to know, if they can now count the birds that
Brandon and COBirders,
I asked that question to a member of the ABA Rules Committee, Nick Block,
and here is his interpretation of the new listing rules regarding the
experimental population of Whooping Cranes that stopped in Colorado on their
way to central New Mexico for the winter and to
CObirders,
The ABA changed their rules for counting reintroduced indigenous birds on
9/27/14. Populations no longer need to be self-sustaining. They only need to
have successfully hatched young in the wild. This has caused a lot of
discussion on the AZ/NM listserv regarding condors, which are
