Colorado now has only 8 unassigned Breeding Bird Survey routes (out of 132) -- maybe you can pick up one - providing you have the requisite skills -- especially good Sount ID ability as well as sight (on my routes, sound IDs comprise over 75% of the records..
A BBS route covers 24.5 miles. Observers record all the birds they hear and see during a 3-minute stop, then drive a half-mile to the next stop. You run the route, once only, during the peak of the songbird singing season, from May 25 on the plains to July 15 in the high country. The ability to identify species by sound is crucial--I record 75-85% of the birds on my routes by sound, not sight. We seek a commitment of three years, because the BBS prefers route data run by the same person for at least 3 years.
The following lists the available routes; I can send more detailed descriptions to you if you'd like to consider one but want more information. I know it's old–fashioned, but I use the DeLorme (printed on paper) Atlas to locate routes. Hugh
Southeast
17028 Two Buttes Prowers & Baca p 103 in DeLorme
Start at intersection of CR 26 & CR D; east on CR D 9 miles; S on Colo 89 to end.
17044 Bethune Kit Carson p 103
Start 6 miles north of Bethune; south 21 miles on CR 40; east one mile on CR D, then south on CR 41 to end.s
17320 Karval Lincoln p 98-99
Starts 25 miles SE of Punkin Center at intersection of CRds 39 and U. West on CR U 7 miles; south on CR 32 one mile; then west on CR T to end.]
17321 Sheridan Lake Prowers, Kiowa p 103
Start on Prowers Co. Rd 30 at Rd VV; north on VV to Kiowa CR W; then east on W to end.
17376 Ludlow Las Animas p 93
Starts at Ludlow; west on CR 447 miles; right CR 51.1 1.5 miles; south on CR 47.7, 51, and 51.7 to end near Cokedale.
West & Northwest
17308 Baxter Pass Garfield pp 42, 32
Starts 15 miles NW of Highline Lake; N on CR 201 over Baxter Pass to end.
17209 Flat Tops Garfield P 35
Start 5 miles NW of New Castle; go northerly on Forest Roads 245 and 244 to end.
17309 Ragged Mtn Gunnison, Delta p 45
Start 10 miles north of Paonia Reservoir; go NW on Rd 265 then westerly on FR 851 & 265 to end.
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