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COLORADO FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS - Checklist of the Birds of Park County - 306 Species This checklist is provided as a service of the Colorado Field Ornithologists. Official county checklists are maintained by the Colorado Bird Records Committee. Date____________________ Time________________________ Locality___________________________________________________ Sky_______________ Wind_______________ Temp__________ Observers_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total Species_____________ Total Individuals______________ Ducks, Geese, and Swans ___Mourning Dove ___Wilson's Snipe (Threskiornithidae) ___Prairie Falcon ___Pygmy Nuthatch (Anatidae) Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and ___Spotted Sandpiper ___Glossy Ibis Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannidae) Creepers (Certhiidae) ___Snow Goose Anis (Cuculidae) ___Solitary Sandpiper ___White-faced Ibis ___Olive-sided Flycatcher ___Brown Creeper ___Ross's Goose ___Greater Roadrunner ___Lesser Yellowlegs New World Vultures ___Western Wood-Pewee Wrens (Troglodytidae) ___Willet ___Cackling Goose Goatsuckers (Caprimulgidae) (Cathartidae) ___Willow Flycatcher ___Rock Wren ___Greater Yellowlegs ___Hammond's Flycatcher ___Canada Goose ___Common Nighthawk ___Turkey Vulture ___Canyon Wren ___Wilson's Phalarope ___Gray Flycatcher ___Trumpeter Swan ___Common Poorwill Ospreys (Pandionidae) ___House Wren ___Red-necked Phalarope ___Dusky Flycatcher ___Winter Wren ___Tundra Swan Swifts (Apodidae) ___Osprey ___Wood Duck ___Red Phalarope ___Cordilleran Flycatcher ___Marsh Wren ___Black Swift Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies ___Blue-winged Teal Skuas and Jaegers ___Eastern Phoebe ___Bewick's Wren ___White-throated Swift (Accipitridae) ___Cinnamon Teal (Stercorariidae) ___Say's Phoebe Gnatcatchers (Polioptilidae) Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) ___Bald Eagle ___Northern Shoveler ___Pomarine Jaeger ___Great Crested Flycatcher ___Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ___Black-chinned Hummingbird ___Gadwall ___Long-tailed Jaeger ___Northern Harrier ___Cassin's Kingbird ___Broad-tailed Hummingbird Dippers (Cinclidae) ___American Wigeon ___Sharp-shinned Hawk ___Western Kingbird ___Rufous Hummingbird Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers ___American Dipper ___Mallard ___Cooper's Hawk ___Eastern Kingbird ___Calliope Hummingbird (Laridae) Kinglets (Regulidae) ___Northern Pintail ___Northern Goshawk Shrikes (Laniidae) ___Sabine's Gull ___Golden-crowned Kinglet ___Green-winged Teal Rails, Gallinules, and Coots ___Broad-winged Hawk ___Loggerhead Shrike ___Bonaparte's Gull ___Ruby-crowned Kinglet ___Canvasback (Rallidae) ___Swainson's Hawk ___Northern Shrike ___Franklin's Gull ___Red-tailed Hawk Thrushes (Turdidae) ___Redhead ___Virginia Rail Vireos (Vireonidae) ___Ring-billed Gull ___Rough-legged Hawk ___Eastern Bluebird ___Ring-necked Duck ___Sora ___Cassin's Vireo ___California Gull ___Ferruginous Hawk ___Western Bluebird ___Greater Scaup ___American Coot ___Plumbeous Vireo ___Herring Gull ___Golden Eagle ___Mountain Bluebird ___Lesser Scaup Cranes (Gruidae) ___Warbling Vireo ___Iceland Gull ___Townsend's Solitaire ___Surf Scoter ___Sandhill Crane Barn Owls (Tytonidae) ___Lesser Black-backed Gull Jays and Crows (Corvidae) ___Veery ___White-winged Scoter ___Whooping Crane ___Barn Owl ___Glaucous-winged Gull ___Canada Jay ___Swainson's Thrush ___Black Scoter Stilts and Avocets Typical Owls (Strigidae) ___Caspian Tern ___Pinyon Jay ___Hermit Thrush ___Long-tailed Duck (Recurvirostridae) ___Black Tern ___Flammulated Owl ___Steller's Jay ___Great Horned Owl ___American Robin ___Bufflehead ___Black-necked Stilt ___Common Tern ___Blue Jay ___Northern Pygmy-Owl Mockingbirds and Thrashers ___Common Goldeneye ___American Avocet ___Forster's Tern ___Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay ___Barrow's Goldeneye ___Burrowing Owl (Mimidae) Lapwings and Plovers Loons (Gaviidae) ___Clark's Nutcracker ___Hooded Merganser ___Long-eared Owl ___Gray Catbird ___Red-throated Loon ___Black-billed Magpie ___Common Merganser (Charadriidae) ___Short-eared Owl ___Brown Thrasher ___Pacific Loon ___American Crow ___Red-breasted Merganser ___Black-bellied Plover ___Boreal Owl ___Sage Thrasher ___Common Loon ___Common Raven ___Ruddy Duck ___American Golden-Plover ___Northern Saw-whet Owl ___Northern Mockingbird ___Killdeer ___Yellow-billed Loon Larks (Alaudidae) Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, Kingfishers (Alcedinidae) Starlings (Sturnidae) ___Semipalmated Plover Cormorants ___Horned Lark and Old World Quail ___Belted Kingfisher ___European Starling ___Piping Plover (Phalacrocoracidae) Swallows (Hirundinidae) Woodpeckers and Allies Waxwings (Bombycillidae) (Phasianidae) ___Mountain Plover ___Double-crested Cormorant ___Bank Swallow ___Wild Turkey (Picidae) ___Bohemian Waxwing ___Snowy Plover Pelicans (Pelecanidae) ___Tree Swallow ___White-tailed Ptarmigan ___Lewis's Woodpecker ___Cedar Waxwing Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and ___American White Pelican ___Violet-green Swallow ___Dusky Grouse ___Red-headed Woodpecker Old World Sparrows Allies (Scolopacidae) ___Brown Pelican ___Northern Rough-winged Swallow Grebes (Podicipedidae) ___Williamson's Sapsucker ___Purple Martin (Passeridae) ___Whimbrel Bitterns, Herons, and Allies ___Red-naped Sapsucker ___Barn Swallow ___House Sparrow ___Pied-billed Grebe ___Long-billed Curlew (Ardeidae) ___American Three-toed ___Cliff Swallow ___Horned Grebe ___Marbled Godwit Wagtails and Pipits ___American Bittern Woodpecker ___Red-necked Grebe ___Stilt Sandpiper Chickadees and Titmice (Motacillidae) ___Least Bittern ___Downy Woodpecker ___Eared Grebe ___Sanderling (Paridae) ___American Pipit ___Great Blue Heron ___Hairy Woodpecker ___Western Grebe ___Baird's Sandpiper ___Black-capped Chickadee ___Great Egret ___Northern Flicker Fringilline and Cardueline ___Clark's Grebe ___Mountain Chickadee ___Least Sandpiper ___Snowy Egret Finches and Allies (Fringillidae) Pigeons and Doves Caracaras and Falcons ___White-rumped Sandpiper ___Little Blue Heron Bushtits (Aegithalidae) ___Evening Grosbeak (Falconidae) (Columbidae) ___Pectoral Sandpiper ___Cattle Egret ___Bushtit ___Pine Grosbeak ___American Kestrel ___Rock Pigeon ___Semipalmated Sandpiper ___Green Heron Nuthatches (Sittidae) ___Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch ___Merlin ___Band-tailed Pigeon ___Western Sandpiper ___Black-crowned Night-Heron ___Red-breasted Nuthatch ___Black Rosy-Finch ___Eurasian Collared-Dove ___Short-billed Dowitcher ___Gyrfalcon Ibises and Spoonbills ___White-breasted Nuthatch ___Brown-capped Rosy-Finch ___White-winged Dove ___Long-billed Dowitcher ___Peregrine Falcon ___House Finch ___Northern Parula Copyright Colorado Field ___Cassin's Finch ___Magnolia Warbler Ornithologists. 2021. All ___Common Redpoll ___Bay-breasted Warbler Rights Reserved. ___Red Crossbill ___Yellow Warbler ___White-winged Crossbill ___Chestnut-sided Warbler Last Updated 8/18/2012 ___Pine Siskin ___Blackpoll Warbler ___Lesser Goldfinch ___Yellow-rumped Warbler ___American Goldfinch ___Yellow-throated Warbler Longspurs and Snow Buntings ___Black-throated Gray Warbler (Calcariidae) ___Townsend's Warbler ___Lapland Longspur ___Wilson's Warbler ___Chestnut-collared Longspur Cardinals, Piranga Tanagers ___Smith's Longspur and Allies (Cardinalidae) ___McCown's Longspur ___Summer Tanager ___Snow Bunting ___Western Tanager New World Sparrows and ___Pyrrhuloxia Towhees (Passerellidae) ___Rose-breasted Grosbeak ___Grasshopper Sparrow ___Black-headed Grosbeak ___Lark Sparrow ___Blue Grosbeak ___Lark Bunting ___Lazuli Bunting ___Chipping Sparrow ___Clay-colored Sparrow ___Brewer's Sparrow The taxonomic sequence and ___Fox Sparrow nomenclature used in this list ___American Tree Sparrow follow the Checklist of North American Birds, 7th Edition, ___Dark-eyed Junco American Ornithologists’ ___White-crowned Sparrow Union, 1998, updated through ___Harris's Sparrow the 57th Supplement, 2016 (Auk 133(3):544-560, 2016). ___White-throated Sparrow ___Vesper Sparrow ___Savannah Sparrow Colorado Field Ornithologists ___Song Sparrow (CFO) is a non-profit statewide organization ___Lincoln's Sparrow devoted to the study ___Swamp Sparrow conservation, and enjoyment ___Green-tailed Towhee of Colorado's birds. CFO's activities include reviewing ___Spotted Towhee sightings of rare birds through Yellow-breasted Chat the Colorado Bird Records Committee, publishing (Icteriidae) Colorado Birds: The Colorado ___Yellow-breasted Chat Field Ornithologists' Blackbirds (Icteridae) Quarterly, conducting field trips and workshops, and ___Yellow-headed Blackbird holding annual conventions. ___Bobolink CFO also owns and manages ___Western Meadowlark COBirds, the Colorado birding community's online ___Bullock's Oriole mailing list. To join COBirds ___Baltimore Oriole or CFO, or for more ___Red-winged Blackbird information, visit us online at ___Brown-headed Cowbird http://cfobirds.org/. The Colorado Bird Records ___Brewer's Blackbird Committee (CBRC) is a ___Common Grackle standing committee of the ___Great-tailed Grackle Colorado Field Ornithologists. The CBRC maintains records Wood-Warblers (Parulidae) documenting bird distribution ___Northern Waterthrush and occurrence in Colorado, ___Black-and-white Warbler and archives these records at the Denver Museum of ___Prothonotary Warbler Nature and Science. Through ___Tennessee Warbler these efforts, the CBRC ___Orange-crowned Warbler maintains the authoritative ___Nashville Warbler bird lists for the state of Colorado and for each of its ___Virginia's Warbler counties. ___MacGillivray's Warbler ___Common Yellowthroat ___Hooded Warbler ___American Redstart.
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    127 NOTES Florida Field Naturalist 29(4):127-128, 2001. FIRST VERIFIABLE RECORD OF THE RED-NECKED GREBE IN FLORIDA ROBERT A. DUNCAN 614 Fairpoint Drive, Gulf Breeze, Florida 32561 On 13 December 2000, while scouting Santa Rosa Sound from South Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa County, Florida for the Pensacola Christmas Bird Count, I spotted an unusual-looking grebe. The bird was preening 100 to 130 meters from the beach. At the time a fresh east wind was blowing and the water was choppy causing the bird to bob up and down. The sky was overcast but there was sufficient light as it was about 1015 CST. Upon getting the bird in my 22× telescope, I suspected it was a Red- necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena). Eared Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) had been in the area since September, and Horned Grebes (Podiceps auritus) were in the vicinity of the bird under observation, allowing easy identification as the Horned Grebes have distinct white cheeks and throats by this time of year. The bird had a dusky dark back and sides to the waterline, as well as a dark crown and cheeks. A whitish area extended from the base of the bill rearwards to the back of the face arching upward and framing the face with a whitish L-shape, contrasting with the crown, cheeks and the back of the neck. The front of the neck and breast was dark, but not as dark as the back. The bill was long and heavy and about the same length as the head.