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Birds and Other Wildlife
during the Focus On Nature  
 Colorado Tour 
 for Grouse and More 
in  2010 

also in adjacent Nebraska 
and Wyoming





List compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the tour 


Photo at upper right: GREATER PRAIRIE CHICKEN
Dates & Codes:

 April 16-24, 2010
 
 in Colorado (co) 
 in nearby Nebraska (ne)
 in nearby Wyoming (wy)
              
        
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International
(t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally
(i): introduced species

Links:

Cumulative List of Birds during FONT tours in Colorado & nearby states

In cumulative lists of birds, scientific names are given & subspecies are noted.

North American Mammals

A list of Mammals during our April '10 tour in Colorado & adjacent states follows the bird-list. 

Upcoming North American Birding & Nature Tours


 Bird-List:
  1. Dusky Grouse - co
  2. Greater Sage Grouse - co
  3. Gunnison Sage Grouse - co
  4. Greater Prairie Chicken - ne
  5. Lesser Prairie Chicken - co
  6. Sharp-tailed Grouse - ne
  7. Common (or ring-necked) Pheasant - co,ne
  8. Wild Turkey - ne
  9. Trumpeter Swan - ne
  10. Canada Goose - co,ne,wy
  11. Mallard - co,ne,wy
  12. Gadwall - co,ne,wy
  13. Northern Pintail - co,wy
  14. American Wigeon - co,ne
  15. Northern Shoveler - co,ne,wy
  16. Cinnamon Teal - co,wy
  17. Blue-winged Teal - co,ne,wy
  18. American Green-winged Teal - co,ne
  19. Redhead - co,ne,wy
  20. Canvasback - co,ne,wy
  21. Ring-necked Duck - co,ne,wy
  22. Lesser Scaup - co,ne,wy 
  23. Bufflehead - co,ne 
  24. Common Merganser - co,wy
  25. Ruddy Duck - co,ne,wy
  26. Pied-billed Grebe - co,ne
  27. Eared (or Black-necked) Grebe - co,wy
  28. Western Grebe - co
  29. Clark's Grebe - co,ne,wy
  30. White-faced Ibis - wy
  31. Great Blue Heron - co,ne,wy
  32. Snowy Egret - co
  33. Cattle Egret - co
  34. Black-crowned Night Heron - wy
  35. American White Pelican - co,ne,wy
  36. Double-crested Cormorant - co,ne,wy
  37. Turkey Vulture - co
  38. American Kestrel - co,ne,wy
  39. Peregrine Falcon - co
  40. Bald Eagle - co,ne
  41. Golden Eagle - co,wy
  42. Northern Harrier - co
  43. Swainson's Hawk - co,ne,wy
  44. Red-tailed Hawk - co,ne,wy
  45. "Harlan's" Red-tailed Hawk - co,wy
  46. American Coot - co,ne,wy
  47. Sandhill Crane - co
  48. Snowy Plover - co
  49. Killdeer - co,ne,wy
  50. Black-necked Stilt - co
  51. American Avocet - co,ne,wy
  52. Greater Yellowlegs - ne
  53. Spotted Sandpiper - co
     
  54. Long-billed Curlew (nt) - ne
  55. Marbled Godwit - co,wy
  56. Western Sandpiper - co
  57. Dunlin - co
  58. Long-billed Dowitcher - co
  59. Wilson's Snipe - co
  60. Wilson's Phalarope - co
  61. Franklin's Gull - co
  62. Bonaparte's Gull - co
  63. Ring-billed Gull - co,wy
  64. California Gull - co
  65. (American) Herring Gull - co,wy
  66. Forster's Tern - ne
  67. Feral Pigeon (i) - co,ne,wy
  68. Eurasian Collared-Dove (i) - co,ne
  69. Mourning Dove - co,ne
  70. Great Horned Owl - co
  71. Burrowing Owl - ne
  72. Belted Kingfisher - co
  73. Red-naped Sapsucker - co
  74. Hairy Woodpecker - co
  75. "Red-shafted" Northern Flicker - co,wy  (in central & western Colorado) 
  76. "Yellow-shafted" Northern Flicker - co,ne  (in far-southeastern Colorado)  
  77. Say's Phoebe -  co
  78. Western Kingbird - co
  79. Loggerhead Shrike - co
  80. Cedar Waxwing - co
  81. Steller's Jay - co
  82. Blue Jay - ne
  83. Western Scrub Jay - co
  84. Clark's Nutcracker - co
  85. Black-billed Magpie - co,wy
  86. Northern Raven - co,ne,wy
  87. Chihuahuan Raven - co
  88. American Crow - co,ne
  89. Tree Swallow - co,ne
  90. Violet-green Swallow - co
  91. American Cliff Swallow - co
  92. Barn Swallow - co
  93. Horned Lark - co,ne,wy
  94. Black-capped Chickadee - co,ne
  95. Mountain Chickadee - co
  96. White-breasted Nuthatch - co
  97. Marsh Wren - wy
  98. Rock Wren - co
  99. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - co
  100. Mountain Bluebird - co,wy
  101. Western Bluebird - co
  102. Eastern Bluebird - ne
  103. American Robin - co,ne,wy
  104. Sage Thrasher - co
  105. European Starling (i) - co,ne,wy
  106. Western Meadowlark - co,ne,wy
  107. Red-winged Blackbird - co,ne,wy
  108. Yellow-headed Blackbird - co,ne,wy
  109. Brewer's Blackbird - co,ne,wy
  110. Common Grackle - co,ne  
  111. Great-tailed Grackle - co
  112. Spotted Towhee - co
  113. Chipping Sparrow - ne
  114. Brewer's Sparrow - co
  115. Vesper Sparrow - co
  116. Lark Bunting - co
  117. Savannah Sparrow - co
  118. White-crowned Sparrow - co
  119. Song Sparrow - co,ne
  120. "Gray-headed" Dark-eyed Junco - co   
  121. McCown's Longspur - wy
  122. Pine Grosbeak - co
  123. Brown-capped Rosy-Finch - co  (almost endemic to Colorado)
  124. Cassin's Finch - co
  125. House Finch - co
  126. Red Crossbill - wy
  127. Pine Siskin - co
  128. American Goldfinch - co,ne
  129. House Sparrow (i) - co,ne,wy   


 Mammals during our April '10 Tour 
in Colorado & adjacent states

Codes:

co: Colorado
ne: Nebraska
wy: Wyoming

(rko): road-kill only

  1. Black-tailed Prairie Dog - co,ne
  2. White-tailed Prairie Dog - co
  3. Gunnison's Prairie Dog - co
  4. Wyoming Ground Squirrel - co,wy  (formerly conspecific with Richardson's Ground Squirrel)
  5. Least Chipmunk - co
  6. Colorado Chipmunk - co
  7. Eastern Fox Squirrel - ne
  8. Abert's Squirrel - wy  (all-black) 
  9. American Red Squirrel - co
  10. Yellow-bellied Marmot - wy (rko)
  11. Muskrat - co,wy
  12. Striped Skunk - co,ne (rko)
  13. Red Fox - co  
  14. Swift Fox - co
     
  15. Eastern Cottontail - co,ne
  16. Black-tailed Jackrabbit - co
  17. White-tailed Jackrabbit - co,wy
  18. Pronghorn - co,ne,wy
  19. Mule Deer - co,ne,wy
  20. White-tailed Deer - co,ne
  21. Elk - co
  22. "Plains" American Bison (or Buffalo) - co