[cobirds] Chico Basin Ranch Volunteering Opportunity

*Volunteers Needed at Chico Basin Ranch!* *Saturday, April 9, 2016 *• *9am - 1pm* Each spring and fall we host a bird banding station at the ranch in partnership with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. This banding station is open to the public, and is the cornerstone of our education program,

[cobirds] White-winged Junco, Colo Spgs, El Paso Co., Wed

Hi COBirders, I just caught and banded a female WWJU in my yard here in Mountain Shadow, NW Colorado Springs. It was huge, and much more white in the tail than the other five subspecies I get here, but was actually lacking the white wingbars! Just a big, gray and white junco! This is the

[cobirds] Pair of Sharpies (I think) dropped by...Berthoud

The pair landed just off my back porch in my rural home west of Berthoud. I did not have in my brain the differentiation factors for Sharpies, Coopers and Merlins for the 20 seconds before they left. In studying afterwards I am pretty sure they were Sharpies because the tail feathers, when

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 9 March 2016

Compiler: Joyce Takamine e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org Date: March 8, 2016 This is the Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, March 8, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Mute Swan