While we are on the subject of exotics, let us not forget about vagrants
like: Red-faced Warbler (was that a cage bird?), Tropical Parula,
Long-billed Thrasher, the Sun Bittern in New Mexico, and what about Mute
Swan in Colorado. There was a juvenile at Cherry Creek that was entirely
pooh-poohed f
Expanding on Ted Floyd's advocacy of reporting exotics on CBCs:
Hasn't Grand Junction had, for 20 years or more, a breeding population of
Peafowl? As I recall, in two different places -- east of and southwest of city
center. I recall seeing them at Coen & Brenda's extraordinary tepee-shaped bir
