Sandra and others,
In this case, it was because of the snowfall that made me focus in at a
lower level. The snowfall drives the birds lower so they have more
visibility to something on the ground (at least that is what is
suspected). In the earlier times of this event, the 850 millibars (units
Hello Paul,
I *think* I may have briefly seen the Tropical Kingbird today. I saw the
bird sitting on a wire just as I pulled into the entrance and parked in
front of the sign for South Platte Park. It was a couple of wires below
below several European Starlings. It was marginally larger than
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: October 18, 2018
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, October 18 sponsored by
Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Note that the RBA is using the new AOU checklist.
Rare and out of range
