Colorado State Rare Bird Review List

Sponsored by:

Denver Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory:
1-303-659-8750 or rba@cfo-link.org

Please report any of the following birds to the Rare Bird Alert by phone or email:

FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK
BRANT
TRUMPETER SWAN
TUNDRA SWAN
EURASIAN WIGEON
AMERICAN BLACK DUCK
GARGANEY
TUFTED DUCK
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Surf Scoter*
White-winged Scoter*
Black Scoter*
Long-tailed Duck*
Barrow's Goldeneye*
RUFFED GROUSE
RED-THROATED LOON
ARCTIC LOON
Pacific Loon*
YELLOW-BILLED LOON
Red-necked Grebe*
BROWN PELICAN
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT
ANHINGA
MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD
LEAST BITTERN
Little Blue Heron
TRICOLORED HERON
REDDISH EGRET
Green Heron*
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
WHITE IBIS
GLOSSY IBIS
ROSEATE SPOONBILL
WOOD STORK
BLACK VULTURE
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE
COMMON BLACK-HAWK
ZONE-TAILED HAWK
HARRIS'S HAWK
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
Broad-winged Hawk*
CRESTED CARACARA
Merlin*
GYRFALCON
YELLOW RAIL
Black Rail*
KING RAIL
PURPLE GALLINULE
COMMON MOORHEN
WHOOPING CRANE
American Golden-Plover*
Snowy Plover*
Piping Plover*
ESKIMO CURLEW
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Ruddy Turnstone
RED KNOT
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER
Dunlin*
CURLEW SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
RUFF
Short-billed Dowitcher*
AMERICAN WOODCOCK
RED PHALAROPE
POMARINE JAEGER
PARASITIC JAEGER
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
LAUGHING GULL
LITTLE GULL
BLACK-HEADED GULL
MEW GULL
Thayer's Gull*
ICELAND GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull*
SLATY-BACKED GULL
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL
Glaucous Gull
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
Sabine's Gull*
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
ROSS'S GULL
IVORY GULL
Caspian Tern*
ROYAL TERN
ARCTIC TERN
Least Tern*
BLACK-SKIMMER
LONG-BILLED MURRELET
ANCIENT MURRELET
White-winged Dove
INCA DOVE
COMMON GROUND-DOVE
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO
Greater Roadrunner*
GROOVE-BILLED ANI
Flammulated Owl*
Western Screech-Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
SNOWY OWL
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Spotted Owl
BARRED OWL
Short-eared Owl*
Boreal Owl*
Northern Saw-whet Owl*
LESSER NIGHTHAWK
WHIP-POOR-WILL
GREEN VIOLET-EAR
BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD
BLUE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
MAGNIFICENT HUMMINGBIRD
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD
COSTA’S HUMMINGBIRD
ACORN WOODPECKER
Red-bellied Woodpecker*
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER
American Three-toed Woodpecker*
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE
ALDER FLYCATCHER
BUFF-BREASTED FLYCATCHER
Black Phoebe*
Eastern Phoebe*
VERMILION FLYCATCHER
DUSKY-CAPPED FLYCATCHER
Great Crested Flycatcher*
SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER
Cassin's Kingbird*
THICK-BILLED KINGBIRD
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER
White-eyed Vireo*
Bell's Vireo*
Yellow-throated Vireo
BLUE-HEADED VIREO
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
Chihuahuan Raven*
Purple Martin*
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
SEDGE WREN
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
WOOD THRUSH
VARIED THRUSH
LONG-BILLED THRASHER
BENDIRE'S THRASHER
Curve-billed Thrasher*
SPRAGUE'S PIPIT
Bohemian Waxwing
PHAINOPEPLA
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler*
Nashville Warbler*
LUCY'S WARBLER
Northern Parula*
Chestnut-sided Warbler*
Magnolia Warbler
CAPE MAY WARBLER
Black-throated Blue Warbler*
Black-throated Gray Warbler*
Black-throated Green Warbler
HERMIT WARBLER
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
PINE WARBLER
PRAIRIE WARBLER
Palm Warbler
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER
Blackpoll Warbler*
CERULEAN WARBLER
Black-and-white Warbler*
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler*
SWAINSON'S WARBLER
Ovenbird*
Northern Waterthrush*
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH
KENTUCKY WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
MOURNING WARBLER
Hooded Warbler*
CANADA WARBLER
RED-FACED WARBLER
PAINTED REDSTART
HEPATIC TANAGER
Summer Tanager
SCARLET TANAGER
EASTERN TOWHEE
Rufous-crowned Sparrow*
Black-throated Sparrow*
BAIRD'S SPARROW
HENSLOW'S SPARROW
LE CONTE'S SPARROW
NELSON'S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW
Fox Sparrow*
Swamp Sparrow*
White-throated Sparrow*
Harris's Sparrow*
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW
Lapland Longspur*
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal*
PYRRHULOXIA
Rose-breasted Grosbeak*
Indigo Bunting*
PAINTED BUNTING
EASTERN MEADOWLARK
Rusty Blackbird*
BRONZED COWBIRD
Scott's Oriole
BRAMBLING
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Black Rosy-Finch
PURPLE FINCH
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll

* indicates species that may be put on the telephone RBA depending on location and season as well as the length of the report. Species at known breeding sites will not generally be included on the report. Owls in known roosting sites or in nesting areas will generally not be listed. Capitalized species require a Sight Record Form.

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