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Birds of Cimarron National Grassland This file was created by scanning the printed publication. Errors identified by the software have been corrected; however, some errors may remain. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Birds of Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station Cimarron Fort Collins, Colorado 80526 National Grassland General Technical Report RM-GTR-281 Cable, Ted T.; Seltman, Scott; and Cook, Kevin J. 1996. Birds of Cimarron National Grassland. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-281. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 108 p. Abstract Bird records for the Cimarron National Grassland were collected from literature searches and unpublished field notes submitted by cooperators. Almost 14,000 bird records were compiled in a data file. Based on these data, the status of each bird species reported to have occurred on the Cimarron National Grassland was established. In addition to the species accounts, the history lot the area, current management practices, habitat types, and locations forfinding birds are discussed. Keywords: grasslands, shortgrass prairie, Great Plains, riparian ar­ eas, bird watching Acknowledgments This book was prepared with some financial support from a USDA Forest Service Challenge-Cost Share Grant. The Rocky Mountain Station's Albuquerque laboratory co-funded editorial work and publica­ tion costs in association with the Cimarron National Grassland. The authors thank the USDA Forest Service, particularly Joe Hartman, Jerry Cline, and Deborah Finch for their support and assistance. The Morton County Historical Society helped by providing unpublished historical accounts of the region and photographs. The authors would like to acknowledge the many individuals who generously provided their unpublished Morton County bird records and the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History for providing computer printouts of speci­ mens in their collection and in other collections throughout the region. We would also like to thank our reviewers. editors, and production staff. Cover photo: Male Lesser Prairie-Chicken. Photo courtesy of Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. USDA Forest Service August 1996 General Technical Report RM-GTR-281 Birds of Cimarron National Grassland Ted T. Cable, Professor of Natural Resource Policy and Park Planning Kansas State University Scott Seltman, Consultant Nekoma, Kansas Kevin J. Cook, Consultant Fort Collins, Colorado :.... - ..... Contents Page Introduction ... ······ ... .......... '" ........................................................... Part 1: Geography, Administrative Roles, and Users of Cimarron National Grassland .............................................. 5 Current Administration and IUse of National Grasslands............................................................ 5 Part 2: Characteristics of Cimarron National Grassland ................. 9 Naming the Cimarron Landscape ....................................... 9 Describing the Cimarron Landscape................................... 11 Part 3: Ornithological History and the Birds .................................... 21 History of Bird Study in Southwestern Kansas .................... 21 Using the Species Accounts ............................................... 31 Definitions of Terms Used in the Species Accounts ........... 31 Species Accounts ..................................................... ,......... 32 Other Reported Species...................................................... 97 Part 4: Finding Cimarron's Birds ..................................................... 101 Preparation ......................................................................... 101 Best Birding Stops............................................................... 102 Part 5: Managing Cimarron National Grassland ............................. 105 References............................................................................... 107 iii Preface A shared passion for birds connects people who are almost as diverse as the birds they pursue. This almost inexplicable passion recognizes no boundaries in terms of age, gender, race, religion, and profession. On any given day, a plumber and a playwright, a neurosurgeon and a grandmotherly housewife, a senator and an ornithologist may prowl the same ground in pursuit of the personally unique satisfactions derived from finding birds. Quite expectably, not all people share identical motivations for finding birds; but perhaps more surprisingly, the same people who will split the finest filoplume on issues of species or subspecies identification largely ignore or summarily dismiss questions about what distinguishes birders from birdwatchers from ornithologists. But because very different personal perspectives motivate people's bird interests, very real needs for open communication and shared knowledge exist. This document combines under one cover three different but inextricably entwined aspects of the human interest in birds. Each is covered as a separate part of the book. Parts 1 and 2 detail the academic interest in birds. Because birds cross human-made political and natural geographic boundaries, they become particularly useful for evaluating the interactions between people and the natural world. Basic research of the natural and life histories of birds improves our abiiity to establish the policies that govern our use of natural resources. Parts 3 and 4 address recreational interests in birds, generally known as birding. They present an annotated checklist of the species known to have occurred on Cimarron National Grassland (NG) in historic times and site guides for finding birds on Cimarron NC. Part 5 presents the basic management issues involving the conse­ quences of people's interest in birds. Recreational birders not only spend money tha t contributes to local and regional economies, but they also exert impacts on public facilities tha t must be maintained. Impacts demand administrative attention and managerial resources. By approaching the birds of the Cimarron NG from these three angles, the authors, editors, researchers, and managers who contrib­ uted to this document's publica tion hope that academia, recrea tionists, and managers will discover aspects to birds that they overlooked before. By considering the needs of the other groups, each group may realize opportunities for contributing their individual knowledge to enrich our collective understanding of birds and to improve our management of the resources that affect our birds and ourselves. iv Birds of Cimarron National Grassland Introduction Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors; Ornithologists and birders usually give The light, the general air possess'd by most of their attention to coasts, mountain them - colors till now ranges, and other outstanding physiographic unknown, regions. Some urban areas, because of the No limit, confine - not the Western large number of observers, also have been sky alone - the high meridian - North, South all, thoroughly studied. But what about the Pure luminous color fighting the land in between? An article in Birding silent shadows to the last. titled "North America's Underbirded Re­ gions" identified the Great Plains, and -Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass western Kansas in particular, as one of (1888) " ... North America's undiscovered, seri­ William Least Heat-Moon in Blue High­ ously under-birded, or under-appreciated ways wrote about the plains making people areas with good birding potential. .. " feel small and uneasy: (Lehman 1995). The book you hold is about "The true West differs from the the birds of Cimarron National Grassland East in one great, pervasive, influen­ (NG), a federally managed tract of land in tial, and awesome way: space ... It's a relatively unknown region. that apparent emptiness which makes Birders coming to Cimarron NG will be matter look alone, exiled, and rewarded with more than just birds. The unconnected. Those spaces diminish High Plains landscape can powerfully af­ man and reduce his blindness to the fect birders who take the binoculars from immensity of the universe; they push their eyes and feel, as much as see, the him toward a greater reliance on expansiveness of the grasslands. Majestic himself, and, at the same time, to a anvil-shaped thunderheads (some contain­ greater awareness of others and what ing as much energy as a nuclear bomb) they do. But, as space diminishes man build before your eyes. Sweeping across and his constructions in a material the horizon, they drag a curtain of blue­ fashion, it also - paradoxically - gray rain beneath them. Slivers of light­ makes them more noticeable. Things ning tear through the dark pedestal of the show up out here. No one, not even thunderhead. Fair-weather cumuli push the sojourner can escape the expanses. their shadows across the landscape, beck­ You can't get away from them by oning wayfarers to join them. Sunsets hang rolling up the safety-glass and like a stage backdrop over the subtle and speeding through, because the terrible understated landscapes. Walt Whitman de­ distances eat up the speed .. .still, scribed such sunsets in this poem: drivers race along; but when you get down to it, they are people uneasy A Prairie Sunset about space." Shot gold, maroon, and violet, Kansas State forester-poet, Fred dazzling silver, emerald, fawn, Atchison, captured the feeling that the Kan­ The earth's whole amplitude and sas plains landscape evoked in him: Introduction Security the rest, and make North America's The vastness
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