[cobirds] 7th Annual Karval Mtn. Plover Festival (Lincoln)

A big thank you to the Karval Community Alliance and the private landowners who continue to feed and open their land and their homes to birders from all over North America for the weekend! The 7th Annual festival had 26 birders registered from points afar such as Baltimore, MD, Harlingen, TX and Port Stanley,Ontario, Canada!!! Repeat customers include Coloradoan's Kevin Corwin, Don and BJ Stone, Will Gallagher, Bob and Nancy Stocker, John and Jane Koshak and Karen von Saltza. Despite severe drought conditions we had a record 87 species for the weekend, these were birds seen from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28th by festival goers in Lincoln County, mostly on private land. Please keep the families of southeastern Colorado in you thoughts as this drought persists, these are very tough times for folks out there. 

Species List Includes: (* indicates species not currently in the Lincoln County CFO checklist)

Canada Goose

Gadwall

American Wigeon

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal

Northern Shoveler 

Northern Pintail 

Green-winged Teal 

Redhead

Ring-necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Bufflehead

Common Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Pied-billed Grebe

Eared Grebe

Western Grebe 

American White Pelican 

Snowy Egret (5/26 Karval SWA)*

Great Blue Heron

White-faced Ibis*

Northern Harrier

Cooper's Hawk

Swainson's Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

Golden Eagle

American Kestrel 

Prairie Falcon

American Coot

Killdeer 

Mountain Plover

American Avocet

Black-necked Stilt* 

Spotted Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs 

Willet 

Stilt Sandpiper

Wilson's Phalarope

Franklin's Gull 

Ring-billed Gull

Rock Pigeon 

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl

Burrowing Owl 

Eastern Screech Owl (a festival 1st!) *

Northern Flicker 

Empid Sp. (I am very much leaning Hammond's, but just can't pull the trigger)

Say's Phoebe

Western Kingbird

Loggerhead Shrike

Black-billed Magpie

Common Raven

Horned Lark

Tree Swallow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Barn Swallow 

Rock Wren

House Wren

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Hermit Thrush

American Robin

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

American Pipit

Yellow-rumped Warbler (both) 

Spotted Towhee

Green-tailed Towhee*

Chipping Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark eyed-Junco  

Red-winged Blackbird

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

Common Grackle

Great-tailed Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

House Finch

House Sparrow

Seth Gallagher

Stewardship Director, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

Fort Collins, CO

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