[cobirds] Re: Question: What Are Colorado's Top 10 Rare Birds Seen This Year?

The Pueblo Vaux's Swift has been accepted by the Colorado Birds Records Committee, as Colorado's 1st State Record.  The last Colorado Birds had all the details in the C.B.R.C. Report.  It was the 499th species to be documented in Colorado.  Hopefully there will be more, since no one else was able to see this one.

 

Brandon Percival

Pueblo West, CO

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From: Ted Floyd <tedfloyd57@hotmail.com>
To: Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 12:27 PM
Subject: [cobirds] Re: Question: What Are Colorado's Top 10 Rare Birds Seen This Year?

I'll start with these two:

10. Vaux's swift, April 28, 2015, Pueblo Reservoir. There had been several suggestive reports previously, and the species may even be rare but regular in very small numbers in Colorado. But this one, found by Brandon Percival, was photographed, eBirded, and, I assume, submitted to the Colorado Bird Records Committee. It is the strongest evidence yet for the occurrence in Colorado of the species.

9. White-throated swifts well into December in the Arkansas River valley. One-off rarities are cool, but full-on phenomena are, for my money, especially compelling. As Duane Nelson, Brandon Percival, and others have noted, it will be fascinating to see how this all plays out--in the months to come, and in the years ahead.

Alright, 8 more!

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County