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The YMCA of The
Rockies is located at the very edge of Rocky Mountain National Park just
west of Estes Park, Colorado. Please join Scott for his Bird
Identification Class spring, summer and fall. The summer classes consist primarily of trapping and
banding birds that move through a specific location on the YMCA grounds.
For more information please contact The YMCA
of The Rockies: (970) 586-3341 x 1104, or you
can contact Scott directly at:
pygmyowl@frii.com.
The information provided below is a regularly
updated list of the birds banded and seen at the YMCA since 1996. The
birds that appear in italics are not commonly found in this area.
|
Species |
1996-2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
| Calliope Hummingbird |
13 |
3 |
|
| Broad-tailed
Hummingbird |
643 |
91 |
|
| Rufous Hummingbird |
135 |
24 |
|
|
Mountain Chickadee |
345 |
23 |
3 |
|
Black-capped Chickadee |
44 |
2 |
|
|
White-breasted Nuthatch |
67 |
9 |
|
|
Pygmy Nuthatch |
424 |
25 |
|
|
Red-breasted Nuthatch |
6 |
1 |
|
|
Brown Creeper |
5 |
|
|
|
Warbling Vireo |
15 |
1 |
|
|
Plumbious Vireo |
1 |
|
|
|
Cassin'sVireo |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
161 |
8 |
|
|
Bluegray-Gnatcatcher |
1 |
|
|
|
Steller's Jay |
139 |
3 |
|
|
Clark's Nutcracker |
4 |
|
|
|
Scrub Jay |
1 |
|
|
|
Black-billed Magpie |
30 |
1 |
|
|
Blue Grouse |
1 |
|
|
|
Brown Thrasher |
1 |
|
|
|
Gray Catbird |
3 |
|
|
|
Brown-headed Cowbird |
23 |
2 |
|
|
Bullock's Oriole |
1 |
|
|
|
Common Grackle |
35 |
2 |
|
|
Red-winged Blackbird |
90 |
8 |
1 |
|
Hairy Woodpecker |
42 |
5 |
|
|
Red-shafted Flicker |
4 |
1 |
|
|
Williamson's Sapsucker |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Red-naped Sapsucker |
9 |
|
|
|
Downy Woodpecker |
11 |
|
|
|
House Wren |
68 |
10 |
|
| Violet-green Swallow |
1 |
|
|
| Cliff Swallow |
2 |
|
|
| Virginia's Warbler |
11 |
|
|
| Townsend's Warbler |
2 |
1 |
|
| Tennessee Warbler |
1 |
|
|
| Yellow Warbler |
26 |
|
|
| MacGillivary's Warbler |
28 |
5 |
|
| Wilson's Warbler |
344 |
39 |
|
| Nashville Warbler |
10 |
1 |
|
| Northern Waterthrush |
5 |
|
|
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
64 |
|
|
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
25 |
4 |
|
|
Mourning Dove |
4 |
|
|
|
Band-tailed Pigeon |
1 |
|
|
|
Northern Pygmy-Owl |
3 |
|
|
|
Great Horned Owl |
2 |
|
|
|
Northern Goshawk |
1 |
|
|
|
Cooper's Hawk |
2 |
|
|
|
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
1 |
|
|
|
Hammond's Flycatcher |
9 |
|
|
|
Dusky Flycatcher |
8 |
|
|
|
Cordilleran's Flycatcher |
24 |
3 |
|
|
Western Wood-pewee |
14 |
|
|
|
Least Flycatcher |
2 |
|
|
| Willow Flycatcher |
6 |
1 |
|
| American Robin |
17 |
|
|
| Mountain Bluebird |
7 |
|
|
| Swainson's Thrush |
1 |
|
|
| Western Tananger |
4 |
|
|
| Lazuli Bunting |
5 |
|
|
| Green-tailed Towhee |
174 |
6 |
|
| Spotted Towhee |
1 |
|
|
| Chipping Sparrow |
129 |
7 |
|
| Lark Sparrow |
4 |
|
|
| Vespers Sparrow |
2 |
|
|
| Savannah Sparrow |
1 |
|
|
| Song Sparrow |
21 |
|
|
| Tree Sparrow |
14 |
|
|
| Lincoln's Sparrow |
206 |
4 |
|
| White-crowned Sparrow |
223 |
18 |
|
| White-throated
Sparrow |
6 |
|
|
| Brewer's Sparrow |
1 |
|
|
| Fox Sparrow |
1 |
|
|
| Slate Junco |
57 |
|
|
| Gray-headed Junco |
291 |
10 |
7 |
| White-winged Junco |
29 |
3 |
|
| Oregon Junco |
322 |
19 |
|
| Cassin's Finch |
246 |
41 |
|
| House Finch |
267 |
11 |
|
| Pine Siskin |
844 |
53 |
|
| Lesser Goldfinch |
2 |
|
|
| American Goldfinch |
22 |
3 |
|
| House Sparrow |
11 |
|
|
| Evening Grosbeak |
8 |
|
|
| Black-headed Grosbeak |
94 |
7 |
|
| Rose-breasted
Grosbeak |
4 |
|
|
| Pine Grosbeak |
1 |
|
|
| Red Crossbill |
46 |
3 |
|
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| |
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|
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| TOTAL BANDED BIRDS |
6099 |
6577 |
11 |
| TOTAL NUMBER OF
SPECIES |
82 |
36 |
3 |
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