Recommended Materials

Birding Rocky Mountain National Park
Scott Roederer

In Birding Rocky Mountain Park, author Scott Roederer provides a close-up look at eight of the park's best birding areas, with information about where to park, walk, and what species to expect. Includes detailed maps for each area, illustrations, and a chapter covering nearby birding areas. Johnson Books; March 2002; 224 pages; paper

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Birding the Front Range: A Guide to Seasonal Highlights
Robert Folzenlogen

Emphasis is placed on the relationship between the birds and the region's varied habitats. Five life zones are covered, from the high plains to the alpine tundra. An excellent resource for beginning birdwatchers who plan to go birding in Colorado's front range.

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Birds of Colorado: Our Birds
Thayer Birding Software
Birds of Colorado contains 287 species regularly seen in the state. This Windows CD-ROM includes color photos, songs for all species from the world-famous Cornell Lab of Ornithology, range maps, abundance maps, ID tips and more. Also included are over 300 quizzes, including Christmas Bird Count Quizzes for Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver and Durango. The CD-ROM lets you compare two birds side-by-side and shows you the similar species. System Requirements: Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 Pro or XP; Pentium 233 processor or equivalent; 64 MB RAM; 16x CD-ROM drive; 30 MB on hard drive; plus hardware and software required to support multimedia applications. Some features of this CD-ROM require an Internet connection.

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Birds of Colorado Field Guide
Stan Tekiela

This fact-filled field guide provides the beginning birdwatcher with easily accessible facts presented in an attractive format. Contains approximately 120 full-color photographs of birds in Colorado. Range maps show where in the state you’ll find the bird in any given season. See a yellow bird and you don’t know what it is? Go to the yellow section! A complete guide for birdwatchers in Colorado.
Adventure Publications; 314 pages; paper

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The Guide to Colorado Birds
Mary Taylor Gray

This well-known Colorado birder, author, and columnist brings more than 250 species into focus in an accessible, lively guidebook. Colorful close-up photographs alongside Gray's at-a-glance identification tips and facts make the guide fun in the field or at home.
Westcliffe; June, 1998; 260 pages; paper

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Breeding Bird Atlas
This 600-page book describes the breeding distribution and biology of 265 species of birds which breed in Colorado. It has chapters on Colorado ecosystems, post-settlement changes to Colorado habitats, Colorado ornithologists, and a 16-page folio with color photographs of Colorado habitats, nests, nestlings, and fledglings. Sketches of each species, by local Pueblo artist Radeaux, illustrate all types of reported breeding behavior. The Species Accounts, written by 30 Colorado atlasers, describe habitats, breeding cycles, and distribution of all birds which breed in the state. Each account maps the Colorado breeding distribution, charts the habitats which the species uses, and depicts the dates of breeding activity. The Atlas database contains 86,498 bird records with information on locations, habitats, and seasonal breeding behavior for the 265 species.

$34.95
Purchase from area bookstores and Wild Bird centers. Credit card orders are accepted at The Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation at 303-291-7212.

A Birder's Guide to Colorado (ABA/Lane Birdfinding Guide Series)
Harold R. Holt

Covers the entire state and offers a wide variety of birding routes with mile-by-mile instructions. Special attention is given to the most popular birding destinations—Rocky Mountain National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Pawnee and Comanche National Grasslands, and the Grand Junction area. Ninety-one excellent new maps show the details of where to stop, and the text lists the birds that might be found at each spot. Updated bar-graphs add to the bird-finding information for 399 species, showing your chances of finding each throughout the year.
American Birding Association, revised 1997; 392 pages; wire-O binding

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Colorado Birds, A Reference to Their Distribution and Habitat
Robert Andrews and Robert Righter

Species accounts include maps and graphs showing bird's known status and distribution; text reviews habitat, breeding ranges and winter distribution, relative abundance, and unusual records.
Denver Museum of Natural History, 1992; 480 pages; paper

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Birds of Western Colorado Plateau and Mesa Country
Robert Righter, Rich Levad, Coen Dexter, and Kim Potter

Each of the 374 species accounts in this volume includes an annual bar-graph that shows relative abundance throughout the year. It includes 190 range maps, information about the best birding locations and most sought after species, and habitat.
Grand Valley Audubon Society; published 2003; 224 pages; paper

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Colorado Atlas & Gazetteer
The DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer series appears to have quickly eclipsed its competitors because it offers birders, and others, so many excellent features for navigating the back roads and remote areas so often described in birdfinding guides. Based on topographic maps, these map books also have tabular information about campgrounds, national forests, national recreation areas, BLM lands, state parks, ski areas, mountain passes, scenic drives, river trips, hiking trails, fishing and hunting areas, museums, historic sites, bicycle routes, beaches, industrial tours, waterfalls, and on and on—depending on the interesting features of the state. Includes GPS grids.

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Colorado Wildlife Viewing Guide
Mary Taylor Gray

This full-color wildlife guide, as well as the many others in The Watchable Wildlife Series, was made possible by the National Watchable Wildlife Program, a unique partnership of state and federal resource agencies and private organizations dedicated to promoting wildlife-related recreational, educational, and conservation opportunities. Falcon Press, publisher of the series, has provide readers of each state guide with information about visiting dozens of interesting and accessible locations in each state, arranged regionally. Wildlife special to each site, facilities, and available types of recreation are indicated by symbols. A description of the site lets you know when to come and what you might expect to see. Directions to reach the sites are included; great color photos of scenery and wildlife appear on almost every page. The guides all measure 6 x 9"
Falcon, 1992; 211 pages; paper

$12.95
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