Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:August 22, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, August 22 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE: The RBA is now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families
has changes.
Wood Duck (Boulder, Huerfano)
Bufflehead (Boulder, Custer, Larimer)
Common Merganer (Washington)
White-winged Dove (*Prowers)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Baca, Otero, Pueblo)
Greater Roadrunner (Baca, Bent, Huerfano, Otero)
Chimney Swift (Denver, *Prowers)
Black Rail (Pueblo)
Sandhill Crane (El Paso)
Black-bellied Plover (Kiowa)
Snowy Plover (Kiowa)
Semipalmated Plover (Washington)
Upland Sandpiper (El Paso)
Long-billed Curlew (Crowley)
Stilt Sandpiper (Crowley, El Paso, Washington)
Dunlin (Kiowa)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Jefferson, Kiowa)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Boulder, Crowley, Washington)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Bent)
Wilson’s Snipe (Crowley, Otero)
Solitary Sandpiper (Boulder, El Paso, Kiowa, Montrose, Otero, Washington)
LITTLE GULL (Pueblo)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Crowley, Otero)
Black Tern *Bent, El Paso, Kiowa, Otero)
Common Loon (Kiowa, La Plata, Ouray)
Little Blue Heron (Weld)
Cattle Egret (Denver)
Green Heron (Otero)
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE (*Prowers)
Mississippi Kite (*El Paso, *Prowers, Pueblo)
Broad-winged Hawk (Prowers)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (La Plata, Pueblo
Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Kiowa, Larimer, Otero, *Prowers, Pueblo,
Washington)
Acorn Woodpecker (Pueblo)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (Custer, Huerfano, La Plata, Pueblo)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (El Paso)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Gunnison, Larimer)
Merlin (Larimer, Pueblo)
Gray Flycatcher (Boulder)
Eastern Phoebe (Fremont, *Jefferson)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Crowley, Kiowa)
Cassin’s Kingbird (El Paso, Fremont)
Bell’s Vireo (Prowers)
Gray Vireo (Archuleta, *Montrose)
Cassin’s Vireo (Kiowa)
Gray Jay (Gilpin)
Chichuahuan Raven (Custer)
Carolina Wren (Baca)
Bewick’s Wren (El Paso, Fremont)
Veery (Gilpin)
Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso, Fremont, Otero)
Red Crossbill (Baca, El Paso)
Pine Siskin (Otero)
Evening Grosbeak (Otero)
Northern Waterthrush (El Paso, Kiowa,Pueblo, Saguache)
Golden-winged Warbler (Routt)
Nashville Warbler (*Boulder)
Grace’s Warbler (*Pueblo)
Cassin’s Sparrow (El Paso)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Baca, Eagle)
Brewer’s Sparrow (El Paso, Huerfano, Montrose, Otero, Weld)
Black-throated Sparrow (Montrose)
Lark Bunting (Custer, El Paso, Jackson, Weld)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Fremont)
Fox Sparrow (San Juan)
Northern Cardinal (Prowers)
Dickcissel (Baca, Boulder, El Paso, Kiowa, Larimer)
Bobolink (Boulder)
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Reservoir Hill, Ben Bailey reported Gray Vireo.
BACA COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Two Buttes SWA below dam, Nick Komar et al reported
Greater Roadrunner, 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, heard Carolina Wren,
Dickcissel, heard Red Crossbill, 6 Clay-colored Sparrows.
BENT COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Adobe Creek Reservoir (Blue Lake), Nick Komar et al
reported juv Short-billed Dowitcher, 6 Black Terns, and 4 Greater
Roadrunners.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On August 16 at Walden Ponds, Jeff Parks reported 6 Semipalmated
Sandpipers; Jack and Ryan Bushong reported 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers and
Solitary Sandpiper. On August 17 at Walden Ponds, Tracy and Luke Pheneger
reported 2 Wood Ducks, 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2 Solitary Sandpipers.
---On August 17 at Magnolia Campgound/trails Stephen Chang reported Gray
Flycatcher.
---On August 20 at Teller Farm and Lakes, Rebecca Laroche reported f-type
Bufflehead.
---On August 21 at Warembourg OP in Louisville, Jack and Ryan Bushong
reported Nashville Warbler.
CROWLEY COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Lake Meredith, John Drummond et al reported 3rd-cyc
Lesser Black-backed Gull. On August 18 at Lake Meredith, Jim Rowroth et al
reported Lesser Black-backed Gull.
---On August 17 at Lake Meredity Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Nick Komar reported
7 Stilt Sandpiper and 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers.
---On August 18 at Lake Meredith Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Ryan Adams et al
reported 8 Stilt Sandpipers, 10 Semipalmated Sandpipers. On August 19 at
Lake Meredith, Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Jay Withgott reported Long-billed
Curlew, 12 Stilt Sandpipers, 13 Semipalmated sandpipers and Wilson’s
Snipe. On August 29 at Lake Meredith Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Dick Porter and
Joshua Smith reported 38 Stilit Sandppers, 12 Semipalmated Sandpipers,
Great Crested Flycatcher and Lesser Black-backed Gull.
CUSTER COUNTY:
---On August 17 at DeWeese Reservoir, Kurt Mize reported f-type Bufflehead,
6 Williamson’s Sapsuckers, f-type Lark Bunting.
---On August 20 in Wetmore area, Drew Beamer et al reported Chichuahuan
Raven.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Denver City Park, Tony Leukering reported Cattle Egret
on island in Ferril Lake and Chimney Swift.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On August 18 at Venetuc
