Maybe it would be more appropriate for a spokesperson from the Colorado RC to be saying this, but.............
I appreciate the sleuthing done by several people to answer the question posed as to when California Condors visited Colorado's Grand Mesa. It was August 1998 when 3 birds wandered up from the introduced Arizona Grand Canyon group. Since reproduction was not documented among these birds, including their cohorts, until about 2004, according to the new ABA listing rules, they were not countable in 1998 when in CO, or anywhere else until 2004. Thus, they do NOT become our 499th species.
Countable or not, the moment that semi-tame condor walked in the door and surprised a USFS employee working INSIDE the under-rennovation Land's End VC, had to be one of the more memorable human facial expressions in the history of Colorado birds.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
I appreciate the sleuthing done by several people to answer the question posed as to when California Condors visited Colorado's Grand Mesa. It was August 1998 when 3 birds wandered up from the introduced Arizona Grand Canyon group. Since reproduction was not documented among these birds, including their cohorts, until about 2004, according to the new ABA listing rules, they were not countable in 1998 when in CO, or anywhere else until 2004. Thus, they do NOT become our 499th species.
Countable or not, the moment that semi-tame condor walked in the door and surprised a USFS employee working INSIDE the under-rennovation Land's End VC, had to be one of the more memorable human facial expressions in the history of Colorado birds.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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