Hello, Birders. Here, belatedly, is a summary of the contents of Colorado Birds, vol. 44, no. 2. Colorado Birds is the quarterly journal of Colorado Field Ornithologists (CFO).
* VICE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. * by BILL KAEMPFER. * pp. 72-73. * The slow march of spring across Colorado culminates in the CFO convention, held in late May. The site for the 2010 CFO convention is Fort Collins, a world-class site for a birding convention. * CFO BOARD MINUTES. * by LARRY MODESITT. * pp. 73-78. * At the 30 January 2010 meeting of the Board of Directors of CFO it was determined that the organization is in solid financial shape, with positive income reported for 2009. Much of the meeting centered around planning for the 2010 convention. * ACROSS THE BOARD: LARRY MODESITT. * by JIM BEATTY. * pp. 78-80. * CFO Board member and Nominations Chairman Larry Modesitt got into birding as a young adult; encounters in the field with Patty Echelmeyer and Joe Roller proved his final undoing, and Modesitt has gone on to become one of the six members of the elite Fourteener-400 Club. (Read the article to learn what that means!) * BOOK REVIEW: SMALL MOUNTAIN OWLS. * by HUGH KINGERY. * pp. 80-82. * This review of a recent book by Colorado owl expert Scott Rashid praises the author for his mix of formal and informal writing, his engaging rhetoric, and his copious photographs and illustrations. * WHITHER COLORADO'S WHEATEAR? * by WALTER SZELIGA. * pp. 82-89. * Colorado's only record of Northern Wheatear is an individual collected in Boulder County by one Henry Minot on 14 May 1880. The specimen cannot be located, however, and it is possible that this record pertains to Mountain Bluebird or a longspur. * The 54TH REPORT OF THE CBRC. * by LAWRENCE S. SEMO and DOUG W. FAULKNER. * pp. 89-105. * This report summarizes the Colorado Bird Records Committee's evaluations of 35 occurrences of 19 species reported during the period 2005-2009. Highlights include the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd state records of "Mexican" Duck and the 3rd state record of Smith's Longspur. * THE HUNGRY BIRD: THE ARMY CUTWORM, OR MILLER MOTH. * by DAVE LEATHERMAN. * pp. 105-108. * Considered annoying and pestiferous by certain humans, the army cutworm (or "miller moth") is notable for its periodic population outbreaks in Colorado and elsewhere. During such outbreaks, these high-fat moths provide food to many animals--European Starlings, Western Meadowlarks, blackbirds, other birds, and even grizzly bears. * THE HUNGRY BIRDER: FORT COLLINS. * by ERIC DeFONSO. * pp. 108-114. * Places to eat in Fort Collins include Lucile's (Cajun), HuHot (Mongolian), and Suehiro (Japanese). Particularly noteworthy are the quirky and socially conscious New Belgium Brewery and the Taj Mahal (Indian), the latter being rated the best place in town. * NEWS FROM THE FIELD: FALL 2009. * by BILL MAYNARD. * pp. 115-135. * Especially notable birds reported from Colorado, August-November 2009, include Arctic Loon, Neotropic Cormorant, Swallow-tailed Kite, Common Black-Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Western Gull, Arctic Tern, Blue-throated Hummingbird, Alder Flycatcher, Cave Swallow, many rare warblers, Le Conte's Sparrow, and Painted Bunting. * IN THE SCOPE: MOLT AND PLUMAGE. * by TONY LEUKERING. * pp. 135-142. * This article, the first in a multi-part series on molt, lays out the groundwork for understanding the complex but important topic of molt. Key to understanding molt is the annual prebasic molt or complete replacement of a bird's feathers, which usually occurs following breeding. For more information on the journal Colorado Birds, please visit the Colorado Birds webpage of the CFO website: http://tiny.cc/SkCNN. For more information on CFO, please visit the CFO homepage: http://tiny.cc/xySmh. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Follow Birding magazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine ------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
