[cobirds] county listing--a few changes

Hello, everybody.

Well, if you've ever birded at Prewitt, you know the "county line problem": Do you count that Great Crested Flycatcher for your Washington County list or your Logan County list? Same thing with a Mew Gull at Chatfield: Jefferson County or Douglas County? And the most notorious of all: Pueblo vs. El Paso for vagrants at Chico Basin Ranch.

Colorado Field Ornithologists has decided that all birds at Prewitt count for Washington County lists, that all Chatfield birds count for Douglas County lists, and that all Chico birds count for El Paso lists.

A related challenge involves areas actually in one county but often counted by birders in another county. This mainly affects Boulder County. Union Reservoir ("technically" in Weld County), northern Jefferson County Open Space, both sides of U.S. 36 from the Larimer County line to and including Estes Park and Lake Estes, and all of Gilpin and Broomfield Counties now count for Boulder County lists.

One of the members of CFO's County Committee put it this way, "We needed more parity in county listing. Things were getting out of hand in Pueblo with all those ridiculous rarities and good birders down there; it's really unfair when you think about it. So this balances the playing field, and restores Boulder County to its rightful top spot. Boulder is tops in everything else in Colorado, so it should have the highest county list too."

With these changes, the Boulder County list soars to 448, and Pueblo's is reduced to 399.

To see the updated county checklists, see:

http://tinyurl.com/county-list-changes

And for the full report with new top county listers, see:

http://tinyurl.com/top-county-listers

Ted Floyd (just got 42 Boulder County armchair lifers, woohoo!)

Lafayette, Boulder County 

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