[cobirds] "Small gull with M pattern"

2020-10-28 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
All: The number of species of "small gulls with an M pattern" that are possible in Colorado is five: Ross's, Little, Bonaparte's, and Black-headed gulls and Black-legged Kittiwake. The "M pattern" refers to the "M" described by the dark primaries and the stripe of dark crossing the otherwise pal

[cobirds] Vesper Sparrow redux

2020-08-31 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I posted a while back on the problem of juvenile Brewer's Sparrows being reported to eBird as Vesper Sparrows (see below). For other reasons, I recently ran through a number of Vesper Sparrow photos in the eBird/Macaulay Library photo archive. Unfortunately, I ran across a sizable number

Re: [cobirds] Ode to Petrochelidon Caution

2020-08-20 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
All: I wholeheartedly agree with David's main point in his posted... criticism, that main point being that identifying Cave Swallow in Colorado requires utmost caution. However, his post contains numerous inaccuracies that serve only to make the situation more confusing. It is a rare juvenile Cl

[cobirds] Current ID problem: Vesper Sparrow vs. juvenile Brewer's Sparrow

2020-08-13 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: For other reasons, I recently ran through a number of Vesper Sparrow photos in the eBird/Macaulay Library photo archive. Unfortunately, I ran across a sizable number of photos entered in the Vesper Sparrow entry that are actually of juvenile Brewer's Sparrows. In the field, take note of

[cobirds] Size comparisons

2020-01-11 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I have posted another essay to the Colorado and Wyoming eBird blog. Enjoy, Tony Tony LeukeringFairborn, OH -- 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

[cobirds] "Unmistakable" -- New post to Colorado and Wyoming eBird blog

2020-01-06 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I have posted a new, short essay on the two-state eBird blog. http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/ Enjoy, Tony LeukeringFairborn, OH -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails f

[cobirds] eBird -- a new post to the CO & WY eBird blog

2019-12-07 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Given that it's the season of large numbers of waterbirds, a post to the CO & WY eBird blog seemed germane. One can access the new post directly here: https://cowyebird.blogspot.com/2019/12/details-provided-about-counting.html or the blog, in general, can be accessed here: https://cowyeb

Re: [cobirds] wigeon ID help, Boulder Co

2019-10-20 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Peter: While your bird is a bit interesting, I now believe that it is a male American. Upon first looking at the photos on my phone, I came to the conclusion that it is a hybrid, but now that I've looked at them on a computer I do not. Male Americans often show obvious, even strong, buff or yello

[cobirds] Relevant to "Wood pewee and hybrid duck"

2019-07-13 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
See the ITS article on merganser ID, ageing, and sexing: https://cobirds.org/CFO/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/82.pdf Enjoy, Tony LeukeringWiley, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

[cobirds] Request for help: Ravens in Prowers County

2019-05-26 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
All: I write to request help with discerning the occurrence pattern of Common Ravenin Prowers County. In my experience, the only ravens that I’ve seen/heard inProwers (away from the very southernmost bit by Two Buttes SWA) that I was convincedwere Commons -- and not the expected Chihuahuan Rave

[cobirds] San Juan County owl

2019-05-23 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: To my eyes, Roger Linfield's Silverton owl is a Flamm.  The small ear tufts, the brown racing stripe on the scapulars, and the brown tones to the face all point in that direction.  However, I have to say that I was convinced that it was a Flamm before I saw the photo, as there are no rec

[cobirds] US 287/385 south of Lamar

2019-04-22 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
All: I write as a public service to the presumed hordes that will soon descend upon southeast CO.  There are signs stating that road work will begin on the highway S of Lamar in “April 2019” between mile markers 50 and 60 in southern Prowers Co.  Additionally, there is ongoing road work in Lamar

[cobirds] A note on recent Kiowa goodies

2019-04-16 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
All: Despite my getting credit in this venue for some “good” birds down here, I deserve very little of the credit. DUNLIN — Mark Peterson called me on 15 Apr to tell me that there were 5 (FIVE!!) at Lower Queens, along with a good selection of other shorebird species, including a WHIMBREL that d

[cobirds] NECO reminder

2019-03-23 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I just saw Adam’s post about the Adams County Neotrop Corm and just wanted to remind all that size is the least-definitive ID character for the species in comparison with Double-crested. This is because the latter species is incredibly variable in size, with the smallest individuals bein

[cobirds] Re: Advice for an early June visitor?

2019-03-22 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi Aaron: The first thing that I suggest is to check out the CO county birding website --  https://coloradocountybirding.org/ -- which is one of the best bird-finding sources available. Secondly, most of your "wants" can be found in a fairly constrained day jaunt from Denver; all can with a bit o

[cobirds] Red Crossbill nesting (and Dino Ridge addendum)

2019-03-21 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I write just to provide more information on the topic and to point out one important aspect of Breeding Bird Atlases that many do not consider. Breeding Bird Atlases (BBA), like ALL bird-data sampling schemes, is biased.  "How," you might ask.  Well, they are designed to get the most bang

[cobirds] Dino Ridge

2019-03-21 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Here’s hoping for a great hawk flight today at the Ridge, as, assuming that the weather conditions there are as they are at Littleton, they’d be hard-pressed to have better conditions on this date.  I would expect a big buteo flight, along with a good smattering of other species.  I recall a tri

[cobirds] Gray-crowned Rosy-finches and eBird

2019-01-11 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch is represented in Colorado by two subspecies groups.  eBird's nomenclature for the two groups is: Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Gray-crowned) and Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Hepburn's). The second of these two subspecies groups is of birds with nearly entirely gray heads,

[cobirds] Swan article -- since it seems germane

2019-01-07 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
https://cobirds.org/CFO/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/76.pdf Tony LeukeringWiley, CO -- 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...@googlegrou

[cobirds] Re: Gyrfalcon in Southern Fort Collins, Larimer County

2018-12-05 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Thanks to Andy for posting such a timely announcement of the Gyr that enabled so many of us to be on location at dawn and thus enjoy such a great bird.  Such timeliness really helps all those interested in chasing such a beast to have a better chance to see it and enables all that are interested

[cobirds] High counts of birds in eBird

2018-06-30 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: If you are not an eBirder and don't have plans to become one, feel free to delete this message now. Scott Somershoe and I have written a piece for the Colorado and Wyoming eBird blog that I'd like to point eBirders to: http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/ Thanks, Tony Tony Leukerin

[cobirds] The rain, the (Belmar) park, and scaupy things

2018-02-16 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Apologies to The Cowsills for paraphrasing their song title. Part of the CO eBird review team have written a piece on the perils... well, difficulties, anyway, on the ID of Greater Scaup, based primarily on the scaup at Belmar Park. http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/2018/02/greater-scaup-e

[cobirds] eBird blog: The "Show Rarities" box

2018-01-26 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Having gotten pretty tired of explaining to eBirders how to get rarities to show up on their eBird species checklist, I have written a blog post about how to do such. Please have a look: http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/ Thanks. Tony Leukering currently Guymon, CO -- You receiv

[cobirds] eBird's "Change Species" button

2018-01-24 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I have posted a new essay on the Colorado and Wyoming eBird blog about this wonderful new checklist-editing tool in eBird. Check it out! http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/ Enjoy, Tony Leukering currently Guymon, OK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

[cobirds] Subspecies of White-winged Crossbill (and other species) and eBird

2018-01-07 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: This is another plea from the Colorado eBird reviewers. If you are tempted to use an eBird entry that has a parenthetical expression, please do NOT use it unless you understand what that expression means. As example, the Pueblo White-winged Crossbill has been reported to eBird under

[cobirds] Recent stakeout goodies and eBird

2018-01-07 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: As a plea from the Colorado cadre of eBird reviewers, please, please, please, please, please use the relevant hotspots when reporting to eBird on the various goodies hanging around the Front Range edge right now: The JEF Snowy Owl, the various ELP goodies (Greater Roadrunner, Red-brea

[cobirds] Red Crossbill types and eBird

2017-11-14 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Though it has been hinted at and suggested for a few years, eBird has promulgated policy concerning the reporting of Red Crossbills to type. See below. Sincerely, Tony Tony Leukering currently Guymon, OK From: Marshall Iliff Date: November 14, 2017 at 09:47:55 CST To: "ebir

[cobirds] California Gull subspecies

2017-10-26 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Since there have been a few eBird checklists from Colorado recently that have endeavored to differentiate among the two subspecies of California Gull, I thought that I would post a cautionary note about such in this venue. As most lariphiles are aware, there are two subspecies of Cali

[cobirds] A new CO and WY eBird blog post: The details box

2017-08-18 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I have posted a new essay written by many of the CO eBird reviewers to the Colorado and Wyoming eBird blog. Please see it at http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/2017/08/ebird-basics-species-comments-box.html Thanks, Tony Leukering currently Guymon, OK -- You received this message bec

Re: [cobirds] Request Buteo ID Help - Arapahoe County

2017-05-19 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi Chris The tail is much too long and the wings much too short for them to belong to a Broad-winged Hawk or any other buteo. The bird is certainly an accipiter, and the seemingly wavy tail banding is usually a feature of Northern Goshawk (as noted by others), but Cooper's Hawks can show this

[cobirds] Raptor (and other) migration at Matthews-Winters Park (JeffCo) - 2 April

2017-04-03 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I spent an hour watching for raptor migrants from Matthews-Winters Park (across Hwy 93 from Dinosaur Ridge, just south of I-70) from about 1 pm to about 2 pm. Had I noticed a significant amount of such migration, I was prepared to make the trudge up to the hawkwatch lookout on Dinosaur

Re: [cobirds] Of sage thrashers, sandhill cranes, strange coincidences, and the inevitable arbitrariness of eBird

2017-04-02 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hey Ted: I am just curious. Did you cross the "Rubicon Kinglet?" Tony Tony Leukering Largo, FL Ted Floyd :Apr 01 05:00PM -0700 Okay, that sounds like the beginning of a really lame April Fools joke, but, actually, it's a true story. Here goes... Yesterday, Friday, March 31, Andrew Flo

[cobirds] eBird: A request for "useful" details in comment fields

2016-11-29 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: The various Colorado eBird reviewers appreciate comments in species entries. However, the comments that are particularly useful are those that indicate how a rare species was identified -- and not just hitting the high points, which may not rule out most or all other species -- or how

Re: [cobirds] Need ID Help from Crow Valley (Weld County)

2016-09-07 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Joey: Given a view of the back, Blackburnian is actually fairly easy to differentiate from similar-looking species by the white or whitish "braces" -- those streaks of contrasting pale near the sides of the back. However, your major concern with identifying Townsend's Warbler (TOWA; note the

[cobirds] Re: Olive-sided Flycatcher at Brush Hollow SWA, landbird migration has begun

2016-08-13 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: While I typically like SeEtta's posts and blog, I have to disagree with her assessment of "landbird migration." Chipping Sparrows have been moving for more than a month, while Yellow Warblers, Lark Buntings, Bullock's Orioles, and an additional unknown number of Colorado-breeding speci

[cobirds] Re: New AOU order

2016-08-13 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: The CFO, as does ABA and most (if not all) state- and province-level bird authorities in the ABA area, follow the AOU taxonomy and nomenclature, while eBird follows Clements. That distinction is important in this case, because the AOU taxonomy covers only North America (Canada south

[cobirds] Larimer Baird's Sparrows

2016-07-22 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Isn't this crazy!! What is going on with Baird's Sparrow in recent years? Interestingly, despite the 44 eBird reports (and who knows how may outside of eBird), there are still no documentations submitted to the CBRC (http://coloradobirdrecords.org/Reporting/) of any of these birds. Pl

[cobirds] Prowers Golden-winged

2016-05-20 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Golden-winged Warbler was removed from the state's review list in 2002 due to climbing occurrence rate (and partly to ease of ID). However, it was returned to the review list not too many years later when the bottom dropped out on occurrences. Since about four bazillion people saw the

[cobirds] eBird checklist distance

2016-03-19 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: Below, please find the link to the new post on the Colorado & Wyoming eBird blog about distance traveled for eBird checklists. http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/2016/03/ebird-checklists-and-miles-traveled.html I would appreciate someone forwarding this to the Western Colorado listserve.

[cobirds] Goldeneye ID

2016-02-24 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Primarily for Marcia, but as a refresher for others, you might check out the In The Scope entry concerned with ID of some goldeneyes. http://cobirds.org/CFO/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/16.pdf Also as a reminder, the whole In The Scope series can be accessed here. http://cobirds.org/CFO/Resources/C

[cobirds] New post to CO & WY eBird blog

2016-02-21 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I have posted to the Colorado & Wyoming eBird blog about some filter changes and plans in progress for making eBird even better for us. Please check it out. http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/2016/02/update-on-colorado-and-wyoming-filters.html I hope to have another post to the blog done so

[cobirds] White-winged Juncos in Colorado (LONG)

2016-02-05 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
All: Since one of my favorite birds has come up as a topic in this venue, I find it impossible to not jump in. In my experience, White-winged Junco's primary winter range is the Ponderosa Pine belt on the east side of the Front Range and Wet Mountains. It is nowhere numerous and is nearly alw

[cobirds] Walden Ponds ibis

2015-10-24 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: As the primary Colorado eBird reviewer, I have noted a wide variety of tacks that eBirders have taken when entering this late ibis in their eBird checklists. Many have entered it as a White-faced Ibis, using the rationale of that species being, by far, the most-common of the two dark i

[cobirds] Grand Junction Costa's Hummer -- Fall/Winter 2014

2015-09-16 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I am trying to finish up the fall 2014 seasonal report for North American Birds and find that the Costa's Hummer attending a feeder for 1.5 months at the end of last year has not been documented to the Colorado Bird Records Committee. I find that disturbing for a number of reasons, two

Re: [cobirds] pipit v. Horned Lark

2015-08-01 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
A blast from the past on this subject: http://cobirds.org/CFO/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/28.pdf Tony Leukering currently Cut Bank, MT http://cobirds.org/CFO/Resources/Columns.aspx?id=2 -Original Message- From: cobirds To: Digest recipients Sent: Thu, Jul 30, 2015 2:31 am Subject:

[cobirds] Colorado eBird filter news

2015-04-16 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi all: I've written a short piece at the CO & WY eBird blog -- check it out! And, please sign up to follow the blog. http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/2015/04/colorado-filter-news.html Tony Tony Leukering Largo, FL http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/ http://aba.org/photoquiz/ https://www.flickr.c

[cobirds] Posts to CO & WY eBird blog

2015-03-15 Thread coloradodipper via Colorado Birds
Hi Cobirders: I've put up a couple posts recently on the new CO & WY eBird blog. Check 'em out at http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/. Enjoy, Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop recei

Re: [cobirds] Colorado eBird: Filters and filter limits

2014-01-21 Thread coloradodipper
nded 2200 rather than some other entry. The take-home message is that outliers are outliers and should not create the bounds between which data are considered "non-outliers." Tony Tony Leukering Largo, FL -Original Message- From: Komar, Nick (CDC/OID/NCEZID) (CDC/O

[cobirds] Colorado eBird: Filters and filter limits

2014-01-21 Thread coloradodipper
Cobirders: Since the question has come up privately a couple of times recently, I thought that I would respond publicly in this venue, as the information may be appreciated by all of Colorado's eBirders. In the beginning, eBird was a very simple and simplistic world. From the start, though, t

[cobirds] Chatfield/Loveland Brant and eBird

2013-12-17 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: The Brant that Colorado birders ogled in Larimer County from late October to late November and which now appears to be in Jefferson County has been submitted to eBird by various observers as Brant, Atlantic Brant, and Gray-bellied Brant. I am writing to beseech eBird users for more co

[cobirds] Re: Chatfield/Loveland Brant and eBird

2013-12-17 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: My #$%^#%% laptop send the email before I was ready to send it. Here is the whole missive. Tony Hi all: The Brant that Colorado birders ogled in Larimer County from late October to late November and which now appears to be in Jefferson County has been submitted to eBird b

[cobirds] re: Ferruginous hawks ??? (pictures)

2013-09-30 Thread coloradodipper
Hi Bill: At such close range, Ferruginous Hawks show their eagle-like gape, which extends all the way under the eye. These birds are all juvenile Red-tailed Hawks. Juvenile Ferruginous Hawks, unless they are dark birds, have white throats and not so much dark below. Enjoy, Tony Tony Leuk

[cobirds] eBird and Willet and Fox Sparrow (among others)

2013-06-23 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Being responsible for the filters used by eBird to determine for entries which species are regular for time and place and which are not, I decided last year to change how certain aspects of those filters are presented in relation to a few species, particularly Willet and Fox Sparrow. W

[cobirds] Two topics: El Paso White-throated Sparrow; Re: remotely-sensed bird records

2013-02-04 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: A late report, but when I was visiting with the Colorado Springs Acorn Woodpecker on Thursday, 1 Feb, I found an immature White-throated Sparrow across Willow from the yard in which the woodpecker is often seen -- just a heads-up. As for the discussion about remotely-sensed records, I

[cobirds] El Paso County Acorn Woodpecker and eBird

2013-02-04 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have created a hot spot in eBird for the current El Paso County Acorn Woodpecker (the one in SW Colorado Springs). eBird would greatly appreciate anyone reporting this bird to eBird in the future to use that hot spot (Colorado Springs--Willow Cir. ACWO site) and would also greatly a

Re: [cobirds] RFI: Help with Red-Tailed Hawk ID

2013-01-29 Thread coloradodipper
Hi Bill et al.: The bird is certainly a Red-tailed Hawk and it is certainly in the midst of its 2nd prebasic molt, the one that replaces most or all of its juvenal (=1st basic) plumage. However, after that, figuring out what the bird is gets a bit tricky, which is not helped by the relative

[cobirds] Hoary Redpolls in CO

2013-01-08 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: As I've said to quite a few people around the country, I'd put Colorado's birding community up against nearly any other state's, both in terms of skill/knowledge and dedication, and the redpolls just offer yet another great example. Hoary Redpoll eBird data from January 2013 (some/man

[cobirds] Mallard hybrid

2012-12-28 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Ted Floyd wrote: female plumage" overall (no ruddy suffusion on breast, uppertail coverts uncurled and concolor with body, etc.) uniform yellow bill, a hair duller than the yellow on the bill of nearby Mallards fairly bright/light purplish speculum, with little or no white fringing

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-12-23 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have gotten two more solutions posted (www.cfobirds.org), so have just one more to catch up with current. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobi

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-12-21 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I am gradually making my way through the backlog of solutions for the CFO Photo Quiz, and have now posted such through quiz #475. The current quiz runs for another nine days; take a stab at it (www.cfobirds.org). Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are

[cobirds] Fox Sparrows: A plea for precision

2012-12-04 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: This is a heartfelt plea to all Cobirds members: Please read this, particularly if you submit data to eBird (www.ebird.org). The widespread ABA-area taxon that we call Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca) has diversified into some 17 named subspecies in four groups (Thick-billed [3 subsp.

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-12-04 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Despite my return to New Jersey after working in Texas, I'm still running behind in getting the solutions to the CFO Photo Quiz posted (I have just posted the one for Quiz #471) and it will be a little while, yet, before I get caught up. I also thought that I had posted the quiz photo

[cobirds] Lk. Estes gull (Beware: post contains gull jargon and minutiae and the thing is long)

2012-11-12 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: At Nick's request, I have looked at the pix available of the bird that Scott Rashid found yesterday, and I must respectfully disagree with him about the bird's age and I am not sure that I agree with his species ID, at least in whole. The pix available of the beast are not the best an

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-10-09 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I apologize for the snafu with posting the October photo quizzes. I have little Internet access here and I thought that I had posted them, already. I have put up the current quiz, which runs through Sunday night. I hope to catch up on solutions this week, but we'll see. Enjoy, Ton

Re: [cobirds] warbler ID help (picture)

2012-09-24 Thread coloradodipper
Hi Bill et al.: The bird is decidedly a Blackburnian. Though the upperparts picture is blown out (overexposed), the white braces are still obvious. Additionally, Blackpoll would never show any hint of orange below, and in fall is decidedly greenish there. Good job, Bill. Tony Leukering cur

[cobirds] Horned Grebes in September in Colorado

2012-09-24 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Since most of the In The Scope columns from Colorado Birds are now posted on the CFO website (http://cfobirds.org/birding/journal.htm#inTheScope) and since there seems to be a rash of good and not-so-good reports of Horned Grebes in the state right now, I thought that it might be a goo

[cobirds] CFO quiz

2012-09-17 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I am currently in Texas and find myself without Internet access. I will endeavor to get answers for the quiz posted as soon as I can, but I may run behind (quite behind) for quite some time. Please bear with me. Sincerely, Tony Leukering currently Smith Point, TX CFO Quizmaster --

[cobirds] Cordilleran vs. Pacific-slope: The Case For Using the Term "Western Flycatcher"

2012-08-24 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Cordilleran Flycatcher is a widespread and common breeding species in Colorado's foothills and mountains, a species that is very familiar to many of us, particularly to those hosting breeding birds on their houses or outbuildings. However, I believe that that familiarity and abundance

[cobirds] What is that thing? A sparrow?

2012-08-20 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Not too many folks responded to last week's entreaty to take a stab at the then-current quiz bird on the CFO Photo Quiz, to which I have now posted the solution (www.cfobirds.org). This week's is even more interesting! Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message b

[cobirds] Juvenile accipiter ID

2012-08-13 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Take a stab at this week's quiz, as the species is fairly widespread and reasonably common. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "C

[cobirds] Bonaparte's or Black-headed?

2012-08-08 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubsc

[cobirds] Tail and wing patterns; raptor (and duck) ID

2012-07-30 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solutions to the last two CFO Photo Quizzes (www.cfobirds.org) as well as the newest quiz photo. Take a stab at it! Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group,

[cobirds] Molting young warbler

2012-07-17 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubsc

Re: [cobirds] Odd swallow

2012-07-13 Thread coloradodipper
Beto et al.: The third photo confirmed for me my determination of the odd swallow depicted in the first two photos: melanistic Northern Rough-winged Swallow. Very interesting! Melanism is fairly rare in birds and particularly so in swallows. I would heartily recommend writing up a short no

[cobirds] Shorebirds with all-gray underwings

2012-07-13 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubsc

[cobirds] DFO data on eBird

2012-07-04 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank Hugh Kingery and others who have spent no little time submitting to eBird (www.ebird.org) the voluminous data from various Denver Field Ornithologists' (and other) field trips, particularly the data from the DFO Spring and Fall counts

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-07-03 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). As that quiz was the final one in the quarterly competition, I can announce that a Californian, Robert McNab, has won in a coin-toss between two respondents with perfect scores. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-06-25 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this grou

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-06-09 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (cfobirds.org) and a slight correction to the previous week's solution (sorry, Bryan). Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to thi

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-05-30 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solutions to the past two CFO Photo Quizzes (cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubs

[cobirds] Birding and reflexive pronouns

2012-05-15 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Here's a great link -- http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/myself-grammar.aspx In short, one uses pronouns with 'self' as part of the word -- termed reflexive pronouns -- only as objects of a sentence and using 'myself' only when referring to oneself in the same sentence in which "I"

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-05-15 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's entertaining and enlightening CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobir

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-05-10 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this grou

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-04-30 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to the previous two CFO Photo Quizzes (www.cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-04-25 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Due to increased work (both paid and unpaid) loads and the fact that spring migration is on, I have been remiss in posting solutions to the quiz. Today, I posted the solutions to the first two quizzes of April and hope to get to last week's quiz solution shortly. Enjoy, Tony Leukerin

Re: [cobirds] Posts about migrants

2012-04-25 Thread coloradodipper
All: Just to beat on the dead horse, I agree with Dick et al. on all points. As an excellent example of the usefulness of such posts (though the example uses phone calls, rather than Cobirds posts), I would point out that a few years ago, I was working at home on my computer when I got calls f

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-04-02 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). With this week's quiz, we start another quarterly competition; I encourage you to take part! Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-03-31 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Good luck with the current quiz. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to co

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-03-31 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Well, those previous computer and system glitches I mentioned in my last post on this subject were more extensive than I had thought then. All have now been solved, but I found that a large minority of responses to quiz #439 had not been taken into account, those responses being on a d

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-03-21 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Various and sundry computer-oriented problems and an increasing work load for, well, work, has kept me from the quiz for a while. However, I have posted the solution to the quiz from a couple weeks back (www.cfobirds.org). I hope to get to last week's quiz's solution shortly. Tony L

Re: [cobirds] HSR: Dinosaur Ridge (06 Mar 2012) 5 Raptors

2012-03-07 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I noted that the list of birds sighted included a Swainson's Hawk that was not mentioned in the summary. Considering that it would be nearly a month early, I suspect that the entry is in the wrong line -- perhaps it should have been a Ferruginous? Sincerely, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-03-07 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: With some recent changes to CFO website architecture and associated alterations, we have had a couple problems with the CFO Photo Quiz. However, all is now solved and I have posted the solution to the quiz from two weeks ago. Also due to those problems, I decided to extend the period

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-02-20 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). You might take a stab at this week's quiz. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send e

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-02-13 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cforbirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubs

[cobirds] Snowy Owl on Pawnee

2012-02-13 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Rachel Hopper reports that Dave Leatherman reports that he has found an immature SNOWY OWL along 49 Rd north of 106 Rd. Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email t

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-02-06 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubsc

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-02-05 Thread coloradodipper
Howdy all: I have posted the solution to the CFO Photo Quiz from two weeks ago, having to wait until January was done before I posted it (check it out, you'll see why). I hope to have the solution to the current quiz posted sometime tomorrow. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You receive

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-01-23 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz (www.cfobirds.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscr

[cobirds] Frankenduck, redux

2012-01-18 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: While I was wandering around in Flickr pictures, I came across a relevant picture. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pennyhallphotography/6136211761/in/pool-ebird/ Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" grou

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

2012-01-16 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's CFO Photo Quiz to www.cfobirds.org. Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubs

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