[cobirds] 2016 Barrow's Goldeneye Count

Greetings,

The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies will be compiling data for the eighteenth annual Barrow's Goldeneye (BAGO) count again this year. In 2016, we will be accepting data collected 26 November through 11 December. The reason for this count is to monitor the wintering population of this species in Colorado. It is possible that all BAGO in the state during this time period represent the Colorado breeding population, however, no one knows for certain if some of the BAGO migrate from Wyoming or further north. The Flat Tops Wilderness Area (and the recently discovered breeding pair near Mount Evans!) is the farthest south this species breeds in North America.

We appreciate any reports of BAGO in Colorado during the count period. We encourage everyone to enter their count totals into the eBird database. I will check eBird for 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 DOT beason AT birdconservancy DOT 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

2013 – 247 at 19 sites

2014 – 152 at 19 sites

2015 – 224 at 25 sites

Thank you!

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Jason Beason
Special Monitoring Projects Coordinator
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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