[cobirds] RMBO Barrow's Goldeneye Count!

Greetings,

Please mark your calendar for Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory's fifteenth consecutive year of compiling count totals for Barrow's Goldeneyes (BAGO) in Colorado! This year we will be accepting data collected from 22 November through 2 December. It is possible that all the BAGO found in Colorado in this time of year represents the portion of the species that breeds in the state. Therefore, by counting the birds in Colorado at this time of year, we are getting an idea of how the population of BAGO is doing.  However, we don't really know for certain and it possible that some birds are coming from Wyoming or farther north.

 

We would appreciate reports of any BAGO in Colorado during the count period, however, we also appreciate counts of all waterbird species present at each location visited. If participants would enter their count totals into eBird that would be much appreciated.  I will check eBird for all BAGO reported during this time period for those of you that don't post on CoBirds or WSBN.  Or, you can send count totals to me at this e-mail address or jason.beason@rmbo.org.

Here are the totals for each year of the count:
1999 – 226 at 8 sites
2000 – 107 at 16 sites (less effort)
2001 – 181 at 20 sites
2002 – 189 at 16 sites
2003 – 245 at 21 sites
2004 – 226 at 14 sites
2005 – 219 at 16 sites
2006 – 280 at 21 sites
2007 – 225 at 17 sites
2008 – 183 at 19 sites
2009 – 163 at 16 sites

2010 – 163 at 16 sites

2011 – 217 at 24 sites

2012 – 214 at 19 sites

Thank you and Good Birding!

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Jason Beason
Special Monitoring Projects Coordinator
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

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