Colorado Birds

“All well and good,” I hear you cry. “But how many birds did you see in Colorado, and what were they?”

Here they are, in the approximate order in which I saw them.

  1. Red-winged Blackbird
  2. Great-tailed Grackle
  3. Eurasian Collared Dove
  4. Common Grackle
  5. Ring-necked Pheasant
  6. Northern Harrier
  7. Barn Swallow
  8. House Sparrow
  9. Mourning Dove
  10. Western Meadowlark
  11. Eastern Kingbird
  12. Downy Woodpecker
  13. Orchard Oriole
  14. Wood Duck
  15. Burrowing Owl
  16. Western Kingbird
  17. Lark Bunting (lifer)
  18. Horned Lark
  19. Great Blue Heron
  20. Spotted Sandpiper
  21. American Avocet
  22. Northern Shoveler
  23. Gadwall
  24. Northern Pintail
  25. Long-billed Curlew
  26. Willet
  27. Wilson’s Phalarope
  28. Blue-winged Teal
  29. White Pelican
  30. American Coot
  31. Canada Goose
  32. Double-crested Cormorant
  33. Ring-billed Gull
  34. Franklin’s Gull
  35. California Gull
  36. Forster’s Tern
  37. Whimbrel
  38. Ruddy Duck
  39. Clark’s Grebe
  40. Greater Yellowlegs
  41. Lesser Yellowlegs
  42. Say’s Phoebe
  43. Loggerhead Shrike
  44. Red-headed Woodpecker
  45. Cliff Swallow
  46. Lark Sparrow
  47. American Robin
  48. Common Yellowthroat (heard)
  49. Virginia Rail (heard)
  50. Sora (heard)
  51. Black Rail (lifer — heard)
  52. Chipping Sparrow
  53. Ash-throated Flycatcher
  54. Brown-headed Cowbird
  55. Gray Flycatcher
  56. Black-headed Grosbeak
  57. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  58. Western Scrub-Jay
  59. Common Raven
  60. Golden Eagle
  61. Turkey Vulture
  62. Plumbeous Vireo (lifer)
  63. Cooper’s Hawk
  64. Cassin’s Finch (lifer)
  65. Violet-green Swallow
  66. Western Tanager
  67. Dusky Flycatcher (lifer)
  68. Virginia Warbler
  69. Red-shafter Flicker
  70. Audubon Warbler
  71. House Wren
  72. Mountain Chickadee
  73. Townsend’s Solitaire
  74. Vesper Sparrow
  75. Broad-tailed Hummingbird (lifer)
  76. Black-billed Magpie
  77. Mountain Bluebird
  78. Pygmy Nuthatch
  79. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
  80. Spotted Towhee
  81. House Finch
  82. White-throated Swift
  83. Rock Dove
  84. Prairie Falcon
  85. Mallard
  86. Belted Kingfisher
  87. Yellow Warbler
  88. Song Sparrow (heard)
  89. Black-capped Chickadee
  90. Bushtit
  91. Clark’s Nutcracker
  92. Steller’s Jay
  93. Western Bluebird

Mammals

  1. Desert Cottontail (lifer)
  2. Pronghorn
  3. Mule Deer
  4. Colorado Chipmunk (lifer)
  5. Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel (lifer)
  6. Mountain Cottontail (lifer)
  7. Eastern Fox Squirrel
  8. Bighorn Sheep (lifer)

Rattlesnakes

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