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BLOGGING FOR BIRDS
Rare Bird Alert! A Story of the Yellow Rail Detection in Colorado
Being a birder means a lot of different things to many different people. Some birders go out every week to count and list as many species as they can find, while others have a yard list of the birds they identify from their window. Read below for a guest blog from Eric DeFonso, a Bird Conservancy seasonal field crew leader for our Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program. Eric shows how sometimes, birding by sight is not always feasible or possible.
Birding in the Hand: Song Sparrows vs Lincoln’s Sparrows
My name is Emily Munch and I was the first ever Banding Trainee for Bird Conservancy of the Rockies at the Barr Lake banding station this past fall. My role was to learn how to safely extract birds from mist nets and how to identify, age, sex, and band birds.
A Hard Day’s Night: The Search for the Elusive Mexican Spotted Owl
Bird Conservancy has been monitoring Mexican Spotted Owls since 2014. This process is not easy, but very important. Learn why we are working on the project and the threats this elusive owl endures.
A Black Swift Story: Richard Levad and Zapata Falls
The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies’ social media posting on August 31 grabbed my attention. Featuring a close up of a Black Swift in hand, the accompanying post announced that the Black Swift Research Team had recently caught three Black Swifts, all of which had been banded 17 years ago in 2005 as adults, breaking the longevity record of oldest known for the species. My heart nearly stopped.
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