Ducks, Geese, and Swans Cuckoos, Roadrunners and Respect Wildlife (Anatidae) Anis (Cuculidae) ☐ Greater White-fronted ☐ Yellow-billed Cuckoo Bird Species Keep distance from nests, Goose ☐ Black-billed Cuckoo roosts, display areas and ☐ Snow Goose ☐ Greater Roadrunner ☐ Ross’s Goose Checklist important feeding sites. Goatsuckers (Caprimulgidae) ☐ Brant ☐ Common Nighthawk Limit the use of recordings ☐ Cackling Goose ☐ Common Poorwill to attract birds. ☐ Canada Goose Open Space Jeffco Open Space ☐ Trumpeter Swan Swifts(Apodidae) Respect Closures ☐ Tundra Swan ☐ Black Swift ☐ Wood Duck ☐ Chimney Swift Bird Behavior Checklist Obey all natural resource ☐ Gadwall ☐ White-throated Swift Understanding bird behavior makes watching birds more closure areas and obtain ☐ American Wigeon Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) interesting. See how many of these fascinating bird behaviors permission before entering ☐ Mallard ☐ Mexican Violetear you can observe in the field. ☐ Blue-winged Teal ☐ Blue-throated private property. ☐ Cinnamon Teal Hummingbird ☐ Northern Shoveler ☐ Black-chinned Energy Conserving Behaviors Stay on Trail ☐ Northern Pintail Hummingbird ☐ Fluffed feathers (warming, energy saving behavior): ☐ Green-winged Teal ☐ Anna’s Hummingbird retaining body heat by trapping warmed air in fluffed Keep habitat and wildlife ☐ Canvasback ☐ Broad-tailed Hummingbird feathers. disturbance to a minimum. ☐ Redhead ☐ Rufous Hummingbird ☐ Tucking (energy saving behavior): perching or sleeping ☐ Ring-necked Duck ☐ Calliope Hummingbird with one leg tucked up under the body. ☐ Greater Scaup ☐ Lesser Scaup Rails, Gallinules and Coots (Rallidae) Behaviors Related to Defense Adapted from the American ☐ Surf Scoter ☐ Mobbing (antipredator behavior): cooperative ☐ Virginia Rail Birding Association Code of ☐ White-winged Scoter harassment of a larger bird by a group of smaller birds. ☐ Sora Birding Ethics aba.org/ethics ☐ Black Scoter ☐ Mantling (defensive eating behavior): hunching and ☐ American Coot ☐ Long-tailed Duck spreading wings over a kill to protect it from ☐ Bufflehead Cranes (Gruidae) would-be thieves. ☐ Common Goldeneye ☐ Sandhill Crane ☐ Barrow’s Goldeneye Stilts and Avocets Health and Grooming Behaviors ☐ Hooded Merganser (Recurvirostridae) ☐ Preening (feather maintenance behavior): Methodically ☐ Common Merganser nibbling or stroking each feather from base to tip. ☐ Black-necked Stilt The taxonomic sequence and nomenclature used in this list ☐ Red-breasted Merganser ☐ Scratching (skin and feather maintenance behavior) ☐ American Avocet follow the Checklist of North American Birds, 7th Edition, ☐ Ruddy Duck ☐ Bathing (skin and feather maintenance behavior) Lapwings and Plovers American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998, updated through the Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, 57th Supplement, 2016 (Auk 133(3):544-560, 2016). (Charadriidae) Behaviors Related to Food and Old World Quail ☐ Black-bellied Plover (Phasianidae) ☐ Caching (food related behavior): the act of storing food ☐ American Golden-Plover ☐ Ring-necked Pheasant* out of sight during times of surplus. ☐ Snowy Plover ☐ Begging (food related behavior): solicitation signal ☐ Dusky Grouse ☐ Semipalmated Plover ☐ Wild Turkey (usually crouching with flapping wings and begging ☐ Piping Plover vocalizations) given to parents or potential mate to Grebes (Podicipedidae) ☐ Killdeer solicit food. Contact Information ☐ Pied-billed Grebe ☐ Mountain Plover ☐ Horned Grebe Sandpipers, Phalaropes and Jeffco Open Space office ☐ Red-necked Grebe Allies (Scolopacidae) 700 Jefferson County Parkway, Suite 100 ☐ Eared Grebe ☐ Upland Sandpiper ☐ Western Grebe ☐ Whimbrel Golden, Colorado 80401 ☐ Clark’s Grebe ☐ Long-billed Curlew 303.271.5925 jeffco.us/open-space Pigeons and Doves ☐ Marbled Godwit (Columbidae) ☐ Ruddy Turnstone Report violations to Jefferson County Sheriff’s ☐ Rock Pigeon* ☐ Stilt Sandpiper non-emergency number at 303.277.0211 ☐ Band-tailed Pigeon ☐ Sanderling ☐ Eurasian Collared-Dove* ☐ Dunlin Jefferson County bird sightings can be tracked and ☐ White-winged Dove ☐ Baird’s Sandpiper recorded on www.ebird.org ☐ Mourning Dove ☐ Least Sandpiper Western Meadowlark on common sunflower Photo by Don and Mary Peterson Sandpipers Continued Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) ☐ Burrowing Owl ☐ Cassin’s Vireo Kinglets (Regulidae) ☐ Snow Bunting ☐ Black-throated Sparrow ☐ White-rumped Sandpiper ☐ Magnificent Frigatebird ☐ Spotted Owl ☐ Blue-headed Vireo ☐ Golden-crowned Kinglet ☐ Sagebrush Sparrow Wood-Warblers (Parulidae) ☐ Buff-breasted Sandpiper ☐ Long-eared Owl ☐ Plumbeous Vireo ☐ Ruby-crowned Kinglet ☐ Lark Bunting Cormorants ☐ Ovenbird ☐ Pectoral Sandpiper ☐ Short-eared Owl ☐ Warbling Vireo ☐ Savannah Sparrow (Phalacrocoracidae) Thrushes (Turdidae) ☐ Worm-eating Warbler ☐ Grasshopper Sparrow ☐ Semipalmated Sandpiper ☐ Double-crested Cormorant ☐ Northern Saw-whet Owl ☐ Red-eyed Vireo ☐ Eastern Bluebird ☐ Northern Waterthrush ☐ Western Sandpiper ☐ Fox Sparrow Pelicans (Pelecanidae) Kingfishers (Alcedinidae) Jays and Crows (Corvidae) ☐ Western Bluebird ☐ Golden-winged Warbler ☐ Song Sparrow ☐ Long-billed Dowitcher ☐ American White Pelican ☐ Belted Kingfisher ☐ Gray Jay ☐ Mountain Bluebird ☐ Blue-winged Warbler ☐ Wilson’s Snipe ☐ Lincoln’s Sparrow ☐ Brown Pelican ☐ Pinyon Jay ☐ Townsend’s Solitaire ☐ Black-and-white Warbler Woodpeckers and Allies ☐ Swamp Sparrow ☐ Spotted Sandpiper ☐ Steller’s Jay ☐ Veery ☐ Prothonotary Warbler Bitterns, Herons, and Allies (Picidae) ☐ White-throated Sparrow ☐ Solitary Sandpiper ☐ Blue Jay ☐ Swainson’s Thrush ☐ Tennessee Warbler (Ardeidae) ☐ Lewis’s Woodpecker ☐ Harris’s Sparrow ☐ Greater Yellowlegs ☐ Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay ☐ Hermit Thrush ☐ Orange-crowned Warbler ☐ American Bittern ☐ Red-headed Woodpecker ☐ White-crowned Sparrow ☐ Willet ☐ Clark’s Nutcracker ☐ Wood Thrush ☐ Nashville Warbler ☐ Great Blue Heron ☐ Acorn Woodpecker ☐ Golden-crowned Sparrow ☐ Lesser Yellowlegs ☐ Black-billed Magpie ☐ American Robin ☐ Virginia’s Warbler ☐ Great Egret ☐ Williamson’s Sapsucker ☐ Dark-eyed Junco ☐ Wilson’s Phalarope ☐ American Crow ☐ Varied Thrush ☐ MacGillivray’s Warbler ☐ Red-necked Phalarope ☐ Snowy Egret ☐ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ☐ Chihuahuan Raven ☐ Mourning Warbler Cardinals, Piranga Tanagers ☐ Red Phalarope ☐ Little Blue Heron ☐ Red-naped Sapsucker Mockingbirds and Thrashers ☐ Common Raven ☐ Kentucky Warbler (Cardinalidae) ☐ Tricolored Heron ☐ Downy Woodpecker (Mimidae) and Allies ☐ Common Yellowthroat ☐ Hepatic Tanager Skuas and Jaegers ☐ Cattle Egret ☐ Hairy Woodpecker Larks (Alaudidae) ☐ Gray Catbird (Stercorariidae) ☐ Summer Tanager ☐ Green Heron ☐ American Three-toed ☐ Horned Lark ☐ Curve-billed Thrasher ☐ Hooded Warbler ☐ Western Tanager ☐ Pomarine Jaeger ☐ Black-crowned Night-Heron Woodpecker ☐ Brown Thrasher ☐ American Redstart Swallows (Hirundinidae) ☐ Northern Cardinal ☐ Parasitic Jaeger ☐ Yellow-crowned Night- ☐ Northern Flicker ☐ Sage Thrasher ☐ Cape May Warbler ☐ Purple Martin ☐ Rose-breasted Grosbeak ☐ Long-tailed Jaeger Heron ☐ Northern Mockingbird ☐ Northern Parula Caracaras and Falcons ☐ Tree Swallow ☐ Magnolia Warbler ☐ Black-headed Grosbeak Auks, Murres, and Puffins Ibises and Spoonbills (Falconidae) ☐ Violet-green Swallow Starlings (Sturnidae) (Alcidae) ☐ Bay-breasted Warbler ☐ Blue Grosbeak (Threskiornithidae) ☐ American Kestrel ☐ Northern Rough-winged ☐ European Starling* ☐ Blackburnian Warbler ☐ Lazuli Bunting ☐ Long-billed Murrelet ☐ White-faced Ibis ☐ Merlin Swallow Waxwings (Bombycillidae) ☐ Yellow Warbler ☐ Indigo Bunting ☐ Ancient Murrelet ☐ Peregrine Falcon ☐ Bank Swallow New World Vultures ☐ Bohemian Waxwing ☐ Chestnut-sided Warbler ☐ Dickcissel Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers ☐ Prairie Falcon ☐ Cliff Swallow (Cathartidae) ☐ Cedar Waxwing ☐ Blackpoll Warbler (Icteridae) (Laridae) ☐ Barn Swallow Blackbirds ☐ Turkey Vulture Tyrant Flycatchers ☐ Black-throated Blue Warbler ☐ Bobolink ☐ Black-legged Kittiwake Old World Sparrows (Tyrannidae) Chickadees and Titmice ☐ Palm Warbler ☐ Red-winged Blackbird ☐ Sabine’s Gull Ospreys (Pandionidae) (Passeridae) ☐ Olive-sided Flycatcher (Paridae) ☐ Pine Warbler ☐ Western Meadowlark ☐ Bonaparte’s Gull ☐ Osprey ☐ House Sparrow* ☐ Western Wood-Pewee ☐ Black-capped Chickadee ☐ Yellow-rumped Warbler ☐ Yellow-headed Blackbird ☐ Black-headed Gull Hawks, Kites, Eagles and ☐ Alder Flycatcher ☐ Mountain Chickadee Wagtails and Pipits ☐ Yellow-throated Warbler ☐ Rusty Blackbird ☐ Little Gull (Accipitridae) (Motacillidae) Allies ☐ Willow Flycatcher ☐ Juniper Titmouse ☐ Prairie Warbler ☐ Brewer’s Blackbird ☐ Laughing Gull ☐ Swallow-tailed Kite ☐ American Pipit ☐ Black-throated Gray ☐ Least Flycatcher (Aegithalidae) ☐ Common Grackle ☐ Franklin’s Gull ☐ Mississippi Kite Bushtits Warbler ☐ Hammond’s Flycatcher Fringilline and Cardueline ☐ Great-tailed Grackle ☐ Mew Gull ☐ Bald Eagle ☐ Bushtit ☐ Townsend’s Warbler ☐ Gray Flycatcher Finches and Allies (Fringillidae) ☐ Bronzed Cowbird* ☐ Ring-billed Gull (Sittidae) ☐ Northern Harrier ☐ Dusky Flycatcher Nuthatches ☐ Hermit Warbler ☐ Brown-headed Cowbird ☐ Western Gull ☐ Brambling * ☐ Sharp-shinned Hawk ☐ Cordilleran Flycatcher ☐ Red-breasted Nuthatch ☐ Black-throated Green ☐ Orchard Oriole ☐ California Gull ☐ Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch ☐ Cooper’s Hawk ☐ Black Phoebe ☐ White-breasted Nuthatch Warbler ☐ Bullock’s Oriole ☐ Herring Gull ☐ Black Rosy-Finch ☐ Northern Goshawk ☐ Eastern Phoebe ☐ Pygmy Nuthatch ☐ Brown-capped Rosy-Finch ☐ Canada Warbler ☐ Baltimore Oriole ☐ Thayer’s Gull ☐ Harris’s Hawk ☐ Wilson’s Warbler ☐ Say’s Phoebe Creepers (Certhiidae) ☐ Pine Grosbeak ☐ Scott’s Oriole ☐ Lesser Black-backed Gull ☐ Red-shouldered Hawk ☐ Vermilion Flycatcher ☐ Red-faced Warbler ☐ Glaucous-winged Gull ☐ Brown Creeper ☐ House Finch ☐ Broad-winged Hawk ☐ Ash-throated Flycatcher ☐ Purple Finch ☐ Painted Redstart ☐ Glaucous Gull Wrens (Troglodytidae) ☐ Swainson’s Hawk ☐ Great Crested Flycatcher ☐ Cassin’s Finch ☐ Yellow-breasted Chat ☐ Great Black-backed Gull ☐ Red-tailed Hawk ☐ Rock Wren *Indicates non-native ☐ Cassin’s Kingbird ☐ Red Crossbill Emberizids (Emberizidae) ☐ Least Tern ☐ Rough-legged Hawk ☐ Thick-billed Kingbird ☐ Canyon Wren species to Colorado ☐ Caspian Tern ☐ House Wren ☐ White-winged Crossbill ☐ Green-tailed Towhee ☐ Ferruginous Hawk ☐ Western Kingbird ☐ Common Redpoll ☐ Spotted Towhee ☐ Black Tern ☐ Golden Eagle ☐ Eastern Kingbird ☐ Winter Wren ☐ Common Tern ☐ Marsh Wren ☐ Pine Siskin ☐ Eastern Towhee (Tytonidae) ☐ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ☐ Arctic Tern Barn Owls ☐ Carolina Wren ☐ Lesser Goldfinch ☐ Canyon Towhee ☐ Forster’s Tern ☐ Barn Owl Shrikes (Laniidae) ☐ Bewick’s Wren ☐ American Goldfinch ☐ Cassin’s Sparrow ☐ Evening Grosbeak ☐ American Tree Sparrow Typical Owls (Strigidae) ☐ Loggerhead Shrike Loons (Gaviidae) Gnatcatchers (Polioptilidae) ☐ Chipping Sparrow ☐ Flammulated Owl ☐ Northern Shrike Longspurs and Snow ☐ Red-throated Loon ☐ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ☐ Clay-colored Sparrow ☐ Eastern Screech-Owl Vireos (Vireonidae) Buntings (Calcariidae) ☐ Arctic Loon (Cinclidae) ☐ Brewer’s Sparrow ☐ Great Horned Owl ☐ White-eyed Vireo Dippers ☐ Lapland Longspur ☐ Pacific Loon ☐ American Dipper ☐ Field Sparrow ☐ Common Loon ☐ Snowy Owl ☐ Bell’s Vireo ☐ Chestnut-collared Longspur ☐ Northern Pygmy-Owl ☐ McCown’s Longspur ☐ Vesper Sparrow ☐ Yellow-billed Loon ☐ Yellow-throated Vireo ☐ Lark Sparrow