Big Day (Bird Race)
13 September 1998
by Brandon K. Percival
Big Day Statistics:
"After postponing the big day several times earlier in the month, we finally did the big day on Sept. 13. We thought we would probably not do as well this late in the month, though as it turns out, we did pretty good. We did really well in the mountains and Lake Cheraw was excellent, with a rare Laughing Gull and a Sabine's Gull, plus lots of terns, shorebirds, ducks, and more. A pretty good day for mid-September in Colorado."
Species list:
1. Pied-billed Grebe
2. Western Grebe
3. Clark's Grebe
4. American White Pelican
5. Double-crested Cormorant
6. Great Blue Heron
7. Cattle Egret
8. Green Heron
9. Black-crowned Night-Heron
10. White-faced Ibis
11. Snow Goose
12. Canada Goose
13. Wood Duck
14. Green-winged Teal
15. Mallard
16. Northern Pintail
17. Blue-winged Teal
18. Cinnamon Teal
19. Northern Shoveler
20. Gadwall
21. American Wigeon
22. Redhead
23. Ruddy Duck
24. Turkey Vulture
25. Osprey
26. Northern Harrier
27. Sharp-shinned Hawk
28. Cooper's Hawk
29. Swainson's Hawk
30. Red-tailed Hawk
31. Ferruginous Hawk
32. American Kestrel
33. Scaled Quail
34. American Coot
35. Killdeer
36. American Avocet
37. Greater Yellowlegs
38. Lesser Yellowlegs
39. Spotted Sandpiper
40. Marbled Godwit
41. Semipalmated Sandpiper
42. Western Sandpiper
43. Least Sandpiper
44. Baird's Sandpiper
45. Stilt Sandpiper
46. Long-billed Dowitcher
47. Common Snipe
48. Wilson's Phalarope
49. Red-necked Phalarope
50. LAUGHING GULL
51. Franklin's Gull
52. Ring-billed Gull
53. California Gull
54. SABINE'S GULL
55. Common Tern
56. Forster's Tern
57. Black Tern
58. Rock Dove
59. Band-tailed Pigeon
60. EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
61. Mourning Dove
62. Barn Owl
63. Great Horned Owl
64. Burrowing Owl
65. SPOTTED OWL
66. Common Nighthawk
67. Common Poorwill
68. Chimney Swift
69. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
70. Belted Kingfisher
71. Lewis's Woodpecker
72. Red-headed Woodpecker
73. Downy Woodpecker
74. Hairy Woodpecker
75. Northern Flicker
76. Western Wood-Pewee
77. Say's Phoebe
78. Cassin's Kingbird
79. Western Kingbird
80. Eastern Kingbird
81. Horned Lark
82. PURPLE MARTIN
83. Violet-green Swallow
84. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
85. Barn Swallow
86. Gray Jay
87. Steller's Jay
88. Blue Jay
89. Western Scrub-Jay
90. Clark's Nutcracker
91. Black-billed Magpie
92. American Crow
93. Common Raven
94. Black-capped Chickadee
95. Mountain Chickadee
96. Red-breasted Nuthatch
97. White-breasted Nuthatch
98. Pygmy Nuthatch
99. Brown Creeper
100. Rock Wren
101. Bewick's Wren
102. House Wren
103. American Dipper
104. Golden-crowned Kinglet
105. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
106. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
107. Western Bluebird
108. Mountain Bluebird
109. Townsend's Solitaire
110. American Robin
111. Sage Thrasher
112. Brown Thrasher
113. American Pipit
114. Loggerhead Shrike
115. European Starling
116. Warbling Vireo
117. Orange-crowned Warbler
118. Yellow Warbler
119. Yellow-rumped Warbler
120. Townsend's Warbler
121. Common Yellowthroat
122. Wilson's Warbler
123. Black-headed Grosbeak
124. Blue Grosbeak
125. Green-tailed Towhee
126. Spotted Towhee
127. Canyon Towhee
128. Chipping Sparrow
129. Vesper Sparrow
130. Lark Sparrow
131. Lark Bunting
132. Savannah Sparrow
133. Song Sparrow
134. Lincoln's Sparrow
135. White-crowned Sparrow
136. Dark-eyed Junco
137. Red-winged Blackbird
138. Western Meadowlark
139. Yellow-headed Blackbird
140. Brewer's Blackbird
141. Great-tailed Grackle
142. Common Grackle
143. Brown-headed Cowbird
144. Pine Grosbeak
145. Cassin's Finch
146. House Finch
147. Red Crossbill
148. Pine Siskin
149. Lesser Goldfinch
150. American Goldfinch
151. House Sparrow
Brandon K. Percival
Pueblo West, CO
flammowl@juno.com