I have a copy of The Birds of El Paso County, Colorado by Charles Aiken and
Edward Warren from 1914. It even has some photos in it, It is a two
volume set published by Colorado College and is interesting reading for the
changes in species designations and names and also a little insight to what
For a lot of reasons, DU has a relatively short eBird checklist. So
anything that's not our most common, year-round birds is news to me when I
see it on campus.
A hummingbird that I take for a Calliope (my one photo shows a squarish
tail shorter than its wings and my general impression is
We are holding steady at 20-something birds per day, today with 25 newly
banded birds of 8 species. The highlight was a young Townsend's Solitaire,
a less-than-annual bird in our nets at Barr Lake. Here are the totals:
Wilson's Warbler - 15
Orange-crowned Warbler - 2
MacGillivray's Warbler - 1
Jared et al,
What a fascinating 1917 Denver checklist (along with his preface) by W.H.
Bergtold! Thank you so much for sharing it, Jared. He notes in the preface
or intro notes how different a (barren) place Denver had been on his first
visit in 1881, from what it had become by 1917, enriched by
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*Join Boulder County Audubon Society and Pam Smith on Tuesday, September
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