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COLORADO FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS - Checklist of the Birds of Colorado - 513 Species Date____________________ Time________________________ Locality___________________________________________________ Sky_______________ Wind_______________ Temp__________ Observers_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total Species_____________ Total Individuals______________ Ducks, Geese, and Swans and Old World Quail ___Costa's Hummingbird ___Pectoral Sandpiper ___Forster's Tern (Accipitridae) (Anatidae) (Phasianidae) ___Broad-tailed Hummingbird ___Semipalmated Sandpiper ___Royal Tern ___White-tailed Kite ___Sandwich Tern ___Black-bellied Whistling-Duck ___Wild Turkey ___Rufous Hummingbird ___Western Sandpiper ___Swallow-tailed Kite ___Black Skimmer ___Fulvous Whistling-Duck ___Ruffed Grouse ___Calliope Hummingbird ___Short-billed Dowitcher ___Mississippi Kite ___Snow Goose ___White-tailed Ptarmigan ___Broad-billed Hummingbird ___Long-billed Dowitcher Loons (Gaviidae) ___Bald Eagle ___Ross's Goose ___Greater Sage-Grouse ___White-eared Hummingbird ___American Woodcock ___Red-throated Loon ___Northern Harrier ___Greater White-fronted Goose ___Gunnison Sage-Grouse Rails, Gallinules, and Coots ___Wilson's Snipe ___Arctic Loon ___Sharp-shinned Hawk ___Pink-footed Goose ___Dusky Grouse (Rallidae) ___Spotted Sandpiper ___Pacific Loon ___Cooper's Hawk ___Brant ___Sharp-tailed Grouse ___King Rail ___Solitary Sandpiper ___Common Loon ___Northern Goshawk ___Barnacle Goose ___Greater Prairie-Chicken ___Virginia Rail ___Lesser Yellowlegs ___Yellow-billed Loon ___Common Black Hawk ___Cackling Goose ___Lesser Prairie-Chicken ___Sora ___Willet Storks (Ciconiidae) ___Harris's Hawk ___Canada Goose ___Ring-necked Pheasant ___Common Gallinule ___Greater Yellowlegs ___Wood Stork ___Red-shouldered Hawk ___Wilson's Phalarope ___Trumpeter Swan ___Chukar ___American Coot Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) ___Broad-winged Hawk ___Red-necked Phalarope ___Tundra Swan Grebes (Podicipedidae) ___Purple Gallinule ___Magnificent Frigatebird ___Swainson's Hawk ___Red Phalarope ___Zone-tailed Hawk ___Wood Duck ___Pied-billed Grebe ___Yellow Rail Boobies and Gannets (Sulidae) Skuas and Jaegers ___Red-tailed Hawk ___Garganey ___Horned Grebe ___Black Rail ___Brown Booby ___Rough-legged Hawk ___Blue-winged Teal ___Red-necked Grebe Cranes (Gruidae) (Stercorariidae) Darters (Anhingidae) ___Ferruginous Hawk ___Cinnamon Teal ___Eared Grebe ___Sandhill Crane ___Pomarine Jaeger ___Anhinga ___Golden Eagle ___Northern Shoveler ___Western Grebe ___Whooping Crane ___Parasitic Jaeger Cormorants ___Gadwall ___Clark's Grebe Stilts and Avocets ___Long-tailed Jaeger Barn Owls (Tytonidae) ___Eurasian Wigeon (Phalacrocoracidae) ___Barn Owl Pigeons and Doves (Recurvirostridae) Auks, Murres, and Puffins ___American Wigeon ___Double-crested Cormorant (Columbidae) ___Black-necked Stilt (Alcidae) Typical Owls (Strigidae) ___Mallard ___Neotropic Cormorant ___Flammulated Owl ___Rock Pigeon ___American Avocet ___Long-billed Murrelet ___Mexican Duck Pelicans (Pelecanidae) ___Western Screech-Owl ___Band-tailed Pigeon Lapwings and Plovers ___Ancient Murrelet ___American Black Duck ___American White Pelican ___Eastern Screech-Owl ___Eurasian Collared-Dove Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers ___Mottled Duck (Charadriidae) ___Brown Pelican ___Great Horned Owl ___Inca Dove (Laridae) ___Northern Pintail ___Black-bellied Plover Bitterns, Herons, and Allies ___Snowy Owl ___Common Ground Dove ___Black-legged Kittiwake ___Green-winged Teal ___American Golden-Plover ___Northern Pygmy-Owl ___White-winged Dove ___Ivory Gull (Ardeidae) ___Canvasback ___Killdeer ___Burrowing Owl ___Mourning Dove ___Sabine's Gull ___American Bittern ___Redhead ___Semipalmated Plover ___Spotted Owl Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and ___Bonaparte's Gull ___Least Bittern ___Ring-necked Duck ___Piping Plover ___Barred Owl ___Black-headed Gull ___Great Blue Heron ___Tufted Duck Anis (Cuculidae) ___Mountain Plover ___Long-eared Owl ___Little Gull ___Great Egret ___Greater Scaup ___Groove-billed Ani ___Snowy Plover ___Short-eared Owl ___Ross's Gull ___Snowy Egret ___Lesser Scaup ___Greater Roadrunner Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and ___Boreal Owl ___Laughing Gull ___Little Blue Heron ___Harlequin Duck ___Yellow-billed Cuckoo Allies (Scolopacidae) ___Northern Saw-whet Owl ___Franklin's Gull ___Tricolored Heron ___Surf Scoter ___Black-billed Cuckoo ___Upland Sandpiper ___Mew Gull ___Reddish Egret Kingfishers (Alcedinidae) ___White-winged Scoter Goatsuckers (Caprimulgidae) ___Whimbrel ___Ring-billed Gull ___Cattle Egret ___Belted Kingfisher ___Black Scoter ___Lesser Nighthawk ___Eskimo Curlew ___Western Gull ___Green Heron Woodpeckers and Allies ___Long-tailed Duck ___Common Nighthawk ___Long-billed Curlew ___California Gull ___Black-crowned Night-Heron (Picidae) ___Bufflehead ___Common Poorwill ___Hudsonian Godwit ___Herring Gull ___Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ___Lewis's Woodpecker ___Common Goldeneye ___Eastern Whip-poor-will ___Marbled Godwit ___Iceland Gull Ibises and Spoonbills ___Red-headed Woodpecker ___Barrow's Goldeneye ___Mexican Whip-poor-will ___Ruddy Turnstone ___Lesser Black-backed Gull (Threskiornithidae) ___Acorn Woodpecker ___Hooded Merganser Swifts (Apodidae) ___Red Knot ___Slaty-backed Gull ___White Ibis ___Red-bellied Woodpecker ___Common Merganser ___Black Swift ___Ruff ___Glaucous-winged Gull ___Glossy Ibis ___Williamson's Sapsucker ___Red-breasted Merganser ___Chimney Swift ___Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ___Glaucous Gull ___White-faced Ibis ___Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ___Ruddy Duck ___Vaux's Swift ___Stilt Sandpiper ___Great Black-backed Gull ___Roseate Spoonbill ___Red-naped Sapsucker New World Quail ___White-throated Swift ___Curlew Sandpiper ___Kelp Gull ___Red-breasted Sapsucker ___Sanderling New World Vultures (Odontophoridae) Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) ___Sooty Tern ___American Three-toed ___Dunlin (Cathartidae) ___Northern Bobwhite ___Mexican Violetear ___Least Tern Woodpecker ___Purple Sandpiper ___Black Vulture ___Scaled Quail ___Rivoli’s Hummingbird ___Caspian Tern ___Downy Woodpecker ___Baird's Sandpiper ___Turkey Vulture ___California Quail ___Blue-throated Mountain-gem ___Black Tern ___Ladder-backed Woodpecker ___Least Sandpiper Ospreys (Pandionidae) ___Gambel's Quail ___Ruby-throated Hummingbird ___Common Tern ___Hairy Woodpecker ___White-rumped Sandpiper ___Osprey Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, ___Black-chinned Hummingbird ___Arctic Tern ___Northern Flicker ___Anna's Hummingbird ___Buff-breasted Sandpiper Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies Caracaras and Falcons ___American Crow ___Brown Thrasher ___White-crowned Sparrow ___Cerulean Warbler Colorado Field Ornithologists (Falconidae) ___Chihuahuan Raven ___Long-billed Thrasher ___Golden-crowned Sparrow ___Northern Parula (CFO) is a non-profit ___Common Raven ___Bendire's Thrasher ___Harris's Sparrow ___Tropical Parula statewide organization ___Crested Caracara devoted to the study ___American Kestrel Larks (Alaudidae) ___Sage Thrasher ___White-throated Sparrow ___Magnolia Warbler conservation, and enjoyment ___Merlin ___Horned Lark ___Northern Mockingbird ___Sagebrush Sparrow ___Bay-breasted Warbler of Colorado's birds. CFO's activities include reviewing ___Gyrfalcon Swallows (Hirundinidae) Starlings (Sturnidae) ___Vesper Sparrow ___Blackburnian Warbler ___LeConte's Sparrow ___Yellow Warbler sightings of rare birds through ___Peregrine Falcon ___Bank Swallow ___European Starling the Colorado Bird Records ___Prairie Falcon ___Tree Swallow Waxwings (Bombycillidae) ___Nelson's Sparrow ___Chestnut-sided Warbler Committee, publishing ___Baird's Sparrow ___Blackpoll Warbler Colorado Birds: The Colorado Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannidae) ___Violet-green Swallow ___Bohemian Waxwing ___Henslow's Sparrow ___Black-throated Blue Warbler Field Ornithologists' ___Olive-sided Flycatcher ___Northern Rough-winged Swallow ___Cedar Waxwing Quarterly, conducting field ___Savannah Sparrow ___Palm Warbler ___Western Wood-Pewee ___Purple Martin Silky-flycatchers trips and workshops, and ___Song Sparrow ___Pine Warbler holding annual conventions. ___Eastern Wood-Pewee ___Barn Swallow (Ptiliogonatidae) ___Lincoln's Sparrow ___Yellow-rumped Warbler CFO also owns and manages ___Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ___Cliff Swallow ___Phainopepla ___Swamp Sparrow ___Yellow-throated Warbler COBirds, the Colorado ___Acadian Flycatcher ___Cave Swallow birding community's online Old World Sparrows ___Canyon Towhee ___Prairie Warbler ___Alder Flycatcher Chickadees and Titmice mailing list. To join COBirds (Passeridae) ___Rufous-crowned Sparrow ___Grace's Warbler or CFO, or for more ___Willow Flycatcher (Paridae) ___House Sparrow ___Green-tailed Towhee ___Black-throated Gray Warbler information, visit us online at ___Least Flycatcher ___Black-capped Chickadee http://cfobirds.org/. The Wagtails and Pipits ___Spotted Towhee ___Townsend's Warbler ___Hammond's Flycatcher ___Mountain Chickadee Colorado Bird Records ___Eastern Towhee ___Hermit Warbler Committee (CBRC) is a ___Gray Flycatcher (Motacillidae) ___Juniper Titmouse ___Black-throated Green Warbler standing committee of the ___Dusky Flycatcher ___American Pipit Yellow-breasted Chat Bushtits (Aegithalidae) ___Golden-crowned Warbler Colorado Field Ornithologists. ___Cordilleran Flycatcher ___Sprague's Pipit (Icteriidae) The CBRC maintains records ___Bushtit ___Canada Warbler ___Buff-breasted Flycatcher Fringilline and Cardueline ___Yellow-breasted Chat documenting bird distribution Nuthatches (Sittidae) ___Wilson's Warbler and occurrence
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    Stilts & Avocets Forster's Tern Red-tailed Hawk Bird-a-Thon Pheasants & Turkeys Black-necked Stilt Royal Tern Barn Owls Ring-necked Pheasant American Avocet Elegant Tern Barn Owl San Diego County Wild Turkey Plovers Black Skimmer Typical Owls Grebes Black-bellied Plover Loons Western Screech-Owl Pied-billed Grebe Snowy Plover Common Loon Great Horned Owl Team: Eared Grebe Semipalmated Plover Cormorants Burrowing Owl Western Grebe Killdeer Brandt's Cormorant Kingfishers Date: Clark's Grebe Sandpipers & Phalaropes Double-crested Cormorant Belted Kingfisher Ducks, Geese & Swans Pigeons & Doves Whimbrel Pelicans Rock Pigeon Brant Long-billed Curlew American White Pelican Woodpeckers Canada Goose Band-tailed Pigeon Marbled Godwit Brown Pelican Acorn Woodpecker Eurasian Collared-Dove Wood Duck Black Turnstone Bitterns, Herons & Egrets Downy Woodpecker Common Ground-Dove Blue-winged Teal Sanderling Great Blue Heron Nuttall's Woodpecker White-winged Dove Cinnamon Teal Least Sandpiper Great Egret Northern Flicker Mourning Dove Northern Shoveler Western Sandpiper Snowy Egret Caracaras & Falcons Cuckoos, Roadrunners & Anis Short-billed Dowitcher Little Blue Heron Gadwall American Kestrel Greater Roadrunner Eurasian Wigeon Long-billed Dowitcher Green Heron Peregrine Falcon Swifts American Wigeon Spotted Sandpiper Black-crowned Night-Heron New World Parrots Vaux's Swift Wandering Tattler Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Mallard Red-crowned Parrot White-throated Swift Northern Pintail Willet Ibises & Spoonbills Red-maked Parakeet Hummingbirds Green-winged