“Keep Colorado Wild” Pass available in 2023
Beginning in January 2023 you can include a $29 Colorado State Park pass with your vehicle registration.
A New Crossbill for Colorado
Middle Park is your best bet for finding Cassia Crossbills in Colorado, but you’ll need sharp ears to tell them apart from the other Red Crossbills of the state.
Unique Sighting: Thick-billed Kingbird
The afternoon of September 21, 2022 was very gray with some rain. Linda Chittum and Ada Jones were driving country roads near Mack, Mesa County, Colorado looking for any birds that may be around on a dreary day. Read the article to hear Linda Chittum describe finding a Thick-billed Kingbird.
Colorado Birds Fall 2022 Available Now!
The digital Fall 2022 issue of Colorado Birds is now available to all CFO Members!
Save the Date: 2023 Annual Convention
The joint CFO-WFO 2023 convention will be July 19-24th at the Copper Mountain in Summit County, Colorado.
Request for Proposal: Colorado Birding Challenge Beneficiary Program
Colorado Field Ornithologists is now inviting qualifying organizations to submit proposals to be the beneficiary of the 2023 Colorado Birding Challenge.
Unique Sighting: Yellow Rail
How unique? This singing Yellow Rail was only the second ever for Colorado (first was in 1906).
New Meadowlark Species! Chihuahuan Meadowlark Includes the Lilian’s Subspecies
Based on research done as an undergrad at CU Boulder, Johanna Bean’s proposal to split two subspecies from Eastern Meadowlark has been accepted the the AOS. The new species is the Chihuahuan Meadowlark.
Colorado Field Ornithologists to Donate Nearly $40,000 to Help Restore Habitat for the Endangered Gunnison Sage-Grouse
On July 8, 2022 the Colorado Field Ornithologists will present a check for nearly $40,000 to the Gunnison Basin Sagebrush Ecosystem Alliance (GB-SEA.)