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Deranged but fun...
I attended the Young Birders Conference (YBC) this June 30-July 5 in Fort Collins Colorado. We visited the Pawnee National Grasslands, Arapaho NWR/Cameron Pass, Rocky Mountain NP, Boulder, and the Fort Collins area.
*-life bird
*-life bird
- Canada Goose
- Gadwall
- American Wigeon
- Mallard
- Blue-winged Teal
- Cinnamon Teal
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Canvasback
- Redhead
- Ring-necked Duck
- Lesser Scaup
- Greater Sage-Grouse*
- White-tailed Ptarmigan*
- Blue Grouse (seen within 2 feet accompanied by 3 chicks)(Dusky subspecies)
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- Western Grebe
- American White Pelican
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Turkey Vulture
- Northern Harrier
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Ferruginuous Hawk
- Golden Eagle
- American Kestrel
- Prairie Falcon
- Sora (1 Adult and 3 Chicks)
- American Coot
- Killdeer
- Mountain Plover*
- American Avocet
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Willet
- Spotted sandpiper
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Franklin’s Gull
- California Gull
- Forster’s Tern
- Black Tern
- Rock Pigeon
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Eastern Screech-Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Burrowing Owl
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Poorwill (heard by me and seen by others)
- Chimney Swift*
- White-throated Swift
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird* (within a foot around a feeder)
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Downy Woodpecker
- American Three-toed Woodpecker*
- Northern Flicker
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Cordilleran Flycatcher*
- Say’s Phoebe
- Western Kingbird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Steller’s Jay
- Blue Jay
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Black-billed Magpie
- American Crow
- Common Raven
- Horned Lark
- Tree Swallow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Bank Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Mountain Chickadee
- Rock Wren
- Canyon Wren
- Bewick’s Wren
- House Wren
- American Dipper
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Mountain Bluebird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Sage Thrasher*
- Brown Thrasher*
- European Starling
- American pipit
- Virginia’s Warbler*
- Yellow Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Western Tanager
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Spotted Towhee
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Brewer’s Sparrow*
- Vesper Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Lark Bunting*
- Savannah Sparrow
- Grasshopper Sparrow*
- Fox Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- McCown’s Longspur
- Chestnut-collared Longspur*
- Lazuli Bunting
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Orchard Oriole
- Bullock’s Oriole
- Pine Grosbeak*
- Cassin’s Finch
- House Finch
- Red Crossbill*
- Pine Siskin
- Lesser Goldfinch
- House Sparrow
