[cobirds] Re: condors in CO were NOT countable

Actually, Joe, I keep a "death list"...wild birds seen dead.

So, since I haven't considered this before..with KFC...if it were a free
ranging chicken, would it count?

Then we get to Thanksgiving turkeys...

Karl Stecher
Centennial

Joe Roller writes:

> IF the San Luis Valley introduced Whooping Cranes are countable, then I am
> going to count a gallinaceous bird, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
> Delicious.
> Joe Roller,
> Denver
>
> On Monday, October 13, 2014 8:38:27 PM UTC-6, Dave Leatherman wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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