[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 16 December 2014

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: December 16, 2014 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Tuesday, December 16 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Swan spec (Boulder, Huerfano)

[cobirds] 4-letter codes, English names, scientific names, and 6-letter codes

A couple of recent posts on cobirds prompted me to create a web-based program for matching English bird names, scientific bird names, four-letter codes derived from English names, and six-letter codes derived from scientific names. If you know one code or name, it will give you all the others.

[cobirds] Larimer County: golden-crowned kinglets, brown creepers, hairy woodpeckers, and more

Yesterday mid-morning we walked the Overlook trail at Lory State Park and just where a small spring crosses the trail was a mixed flock. There were about 6-8 golden-crowned kinglets right in front of us, all hovering around a few scraggly junipers above the water. We first heard the high-pitched

[cobirds] RE: Yellow-billed Loon/Douglas

Daren O'brien reports that the Yellow-billed Loon was seen off the Handicapped Fisherman's Platform at 845am. He states the bird was near the tires and then dove moving to the west past the platform. Daren's photos can be seen at the link below:

[cobirds] Interludes with Nature, a few spots left, the perfect gift!

- *BOULDER COUNTY AUDUBON’S* *“INTERLUDES WITH NATURE, 2015”* Proceeds from these popular field trips, now being offered for the 3rd year, benefit out Youth Naturalist Program. This year we are sending 3!! promising young students to National Audubon’s Hog Island Environmental Camp at a cost

[cobirds] Larimer Landfill

Greetings All This afternoon went to Larimer County Landfill with Georgia Doyle and David Wade. My apologies to Nick Komar. The bird I had called a Thayer's Gull was an adult Iceland as he'd thought. Also, there was a bird that looked excellent for a first cycle Western Gull. Will post photos

[cobirds] Re: 4-letter codes, English names, scientific names, and 6-letter codes

This is really great! Thanks so much. - Chuck Lowrie, Denver -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to

[cobirds] Followup on white faced hybrid duck, Adams County

Hi all, Last Tuesday I posted about seeing an unusual white faced duck in the South Platte River at 88th and Colorado. I had guessed it might be a ruddy duck-Northern shoveler hybrid. That was unlikely, as a few people pointed out, since ruddies and shovelers have little in common. The white

[cobirds] Interludes with Nature spots left only on the Colorado Hairstreak and Dragonfly trips

- *BOULDER COUNTY AUDUBON’S* *“INTERLUDES WITH NATURE, 2015”* Proceeds from these popular field trips, now being offered for the 3rd year, benefit out Youth Naturalist Program. This year we are sending 3!! promising young students to National Audubon’s Hog Island Environmental Camp at a cost

[cobirds] Yellow Billed Loon at Chatfield (Douglas County)

The Yellow-billed Loon was present at 3PM this afternoon between the ends of the spits on either side of the marina. Great views were had while the sun was shining, then as the sun was obscured by clouds, the Loon swam away and became more difficult to find. Tom Behnfield Lakewood, CO

[cobirds] Yellow-billed Loon @ Chatfield State Park

Cobirders, The Chatfield Yellow-billed Loon is trending of late on Cobirds. Is the rarity of this bird making it popular? A click over to the CFO website and then to the Colorado Bird Records Commitee link can quickly answer that question. An easy query of the data indicates there are