I have regularly seen Greater Prairie Chickens in the fall and winter when hunting Pheasant in Sedgwick and Phillips County. As I'm hunting at the time, I don't submit an eBird report on them. The best habitat is on High Plains Land Conservancy properties, particularly near Sand Draw SWA in Sedgwick County and Southeast of Holyoke in Phillips County. Also, any "Corners for Wildlife" projects planted by Pheasants Forever.
Preston Larimer.
On Feb 6, 2025, at 6:13 AM, cobirds@googlegroups.com wrote:
aiantony <aiantony@earthlink.net>: Feb 05 08:41AM -0700
Yesterday evening, we were near the end of one of the four Winter Raptor Surveys we do for HMA (the Hawk Migration Association, formerly HMANA) on CR2 going South toward Jackson Lake, when we espied two distant binocular birds which did not look like raptors on a utility pole along the road, and after a quick glance, passed them off as pigeons. When we got closer, they looked like grouse, but which one? Liza said the only ones around here were Sharp-tailed, but when we looked in the Merlin app at images, it didn't look like that species, in thatit was strongly and heavily barred both dorsally as well as ventrally.I took a cell phone picture from about 30 yards away from inside the car and submitted to Merlin, (which I've never done before to identify a species), and its first attempt was 'Red-tailed Hawk', and another picture could not be identified by it at all. We backed up in the car, got our 'scope out, and using the car as a blind, studied it, as well as well as got better cell phone images through the scope.This time when Liza sent it to Merlin, it said it was Greater Prairie Chicken!!!! I sent in two digiscoped images as well and got the same answer. Looking at the images of that species on Merlin we knew that Merlin was correct.Liza entered it into eBird, and there was a solid red circle for rare, and the comment said 'Unreported.'https://ebird.org/checklist/S211997030We had only seen the species once at a lek on a CFO trip in 2019 led by Bill Kaempfer, and obviously, since we couldn't identify the species ourselves yesterday, we had been focusing on the spectacle rather than how to identify the species if we saw it again elsewhere.Ajit and Liza AntonyCentral Park ColoradoSent from my Galaxy
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David Suddjian <dsuddjian@gmail.com>: Feb 05 11:16AM -0700
This report is north of the Platte corridor, and I was interested to see in
eBird that this species is fairly seldom reported much north of the Platte
corridor in Morgan, Washington, and Logan counties. Grreat Prairie-Chicken
eBird map
<https://ebird.org/map/grpchi?neg=true&env.minX=&env.minY=&env.maxX=&env.maxY=&zh=false&gp=false&ev=Z&excludeExX=false&excludeExAll=false&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2025>.
I presume it reflects some habitat differences south and north of the
corridor? Less sand-sage habitat north of the corridor?
David Suddjian
Littleton, CO
Screenshot of the GPCH map, showing the Antony's report as the western red
pin
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Jeff P <jeff.percell@gmail.com>: Feb 05 12:03PM -0700
Fantastic bird and write up. Thanks to Ajit and Liza Antony for sharing.
I'm hoping to find some Greater Prairie Chickens on a trip to South Dakota
in a week and a half.
I was looking at similar info in regard to their range. It looks like their
eBird report is one of only 3 eBird records West of Fort Morgan >> this
one, one this date 2 years ago (Feb 5 2023) further South in Adams County
(perhaps a DFO outing) and then the below record, which has very
interesting notes about attempted reintroduction of birds 30+ years ago in
Colorado.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S12610669
Best,
Jeff Percell
Erie, CO
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Ira Sanders <zroadrunner14@gmail.com>: Feb 05 12:09PM -0700
Many, many years ago, Oct 1993 to be exact, while driving on I 76 in
Sedgwick County, I had 2 Greater Prairie Chickens fly over the road.
Ira Sanders
Golden, CO
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Lynne Forrester <lforrester27@gmail.com>: Feb 05 04:38PM
Thanks for the tip Scott. I was wondering if it would be appropriate here for folks to share the apps they like to use on their phones and why. I tend to just use Merlin and Sibley, but I am interested in more specialized ones.
Lynne Forrester
Jefferson county
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To: Scott E. Severs <scottesevers@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Gullible! The new Gull App!
Scott,
Thanks for the mention of this super gull app. Completes my phone id apps. I for one enjoy landfill gulls & all the other places!
Diane Roberts
Highlands Ranch
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On Feb 3, 2025, at 6:06 PM, Scott E. Severs <scottesevers@gmail.com> wrote:
A terrific new goal app is just out by Ethan Moon. Although it just covers the Pacific Northwest there's lots of overlap with Colorado.
iOS one is out.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gullable/id6737456195
He's also beta testing one for android.
Scott E Severs Longmont ScottESevers@gmail.com<mailto:ScottESevers@gmail.com> (Note the "E" in the address above) Sent from Gmail Mobile
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