PO Box 9021, Wilmington, DE 19809, USA
E-mail: font@focusonnature.com
Phone: Toll-free in USA 1-800-721-9986
 or 302/529-1876; Fax: 302/529-1085

 

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

also in adjacent Nebraska 
& Wyoming

List compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the tour 


Photo at 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