Colorado Grouse

April 14-23, 2012

Greater Sage-Grouse

Day 1
Arrive in Denver. Time spent with friends. Birding near Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Night in Lakewood.

Day 2
Drive from Denver to Pawnee National Grassland. Night in Fort Collins.

Day 3
Travel from Fort Collins to Walden with stops at Poudre Park, Cameron Pass & State Forest State Park. Birding. Birding at Lake John, Walden Reservoir & Arapahoe NWR. Night in Walden.

Cassin's Finch

Day 4
Coalmont Greater Sage-Grouse lek. Travel to Steamboat Springs. Birding at Peabody Sage Creek Mine property & California Park Road. Night in Steamboat Springs.

Day 5
Hayden Sharp-tailed Grouse lek. Travel to Gunnison via Loveland Pass. Night in Gunnison.

Pronghorn

Day 6
Gunnison Sage-Grouse lek. Travel from Gunnison to Lamar with stops at Royal Gorge Park, Pueblo West & Bent's Old Fort. Night in Lamar.

Day 7
Arena Dust Tours Lesser Prairie Chicken lek. Travel to Wray. Birding  Night in Wray.

Day 8
Bledsoe Ranch Greater Prairie Chicken lek. Travel from Wray to Denver. Visit with friends.


Day 9
Birding Loveland Pass, Dillon, Silverthorne & Guanella Pass.

Day 10
Depart Denver.

Sharp-tailed Grouse

Greater Prairie Chicken

Bird List

1. Ross's Goose
2. Canada Goose
3. Gadwall
4. American Wigeon
5. Mallard
6. Blue-winged Teal
7. Cinnamon Teal
8. Northern Shoveler
9. Northern Pintail
10. Canvasback
11. Redhead
12. Ring-necked Duck
13. Lesser Scaup
14. Bufflehead
15. Common Goldeneye
16. Barrow's Goldeneye
17. Common Merganser
18. Ruddy Duck
19. Scaled Quail
20. Northern Bobwhite
21. Ring-necked Pheasant
22. Greater Sage-Grouse
23. Gunnison Sage-Grouse
24. Dusky Grouse
25. Sharp-tailed Grouse
26. Greater Prairie-Chicken
27. Lesser Prairie-Chicken
28. Eared Grebe
29. Western Grebe
30. Double-crested Cormorant
31. American White Pelican
32. Great Blue Heron
33. White-faced Ibis
34. Turkey Vulture
35. Osprey
36. Northern Harrier
37. Cooper's Hawk
38. Swainson's Hawk
39. Red-tailed Hawk
40. Ferruginous Hawk
41. Golden Eagle
42. American Kestrel
43. Merlin
44. American Coot
45. Sandhill Crane
46. Killdeer
47. Mountain Plover
48. American Avocet
49. Greater Yellowlegs
50. Willet
51. Lesser Yellowlegs
52. Long-billed Curlew
53. Baird's Sandpiper
54. Wilson's Snipe
55. Franklin's Gull
56. California Gull
57. Rock Pigeon
58. Band-tailed Pigeon
59. Eurasian Collared-Dove
60. Mourning Dove
61. Great Horned Owl
62. Burrowing Owl
63. Long-eared Owl
64. Chimney Swift
65. White-throated Swift
66. Belted Kingfisher
67. Lewis's Woodpecker
68. Red-naped Sapsucker
69. Downy Woodpecker
70. Hairy Woodpecker
71. Northern Flicker
72. Western Kingbird
73. Loggerhead Shrike
74. Pinyon Jay
75. Steller's Jay
76. Western Scrub-Jay
77. Black-billed Magpie
78. American Crow
79. Chihuahuan Raven
80. Common Raven
81. Horned Lark
82. Tree Swallow
83. Bank Swallow
84. Barn Swallow
85. Black-capped Chickadee
86. Mountain Chickadee
87. Juniper Titmouse
88. House Wren
89. American Dipper
90. Mountain Bluebird
91. Townsend's Solitaire
92. American Robin
93. Curve-billed Thrasher
94. European Starling
95. Cedar Waxwing
96. Chestnut-collared Longspur
97. McCown's Longspur
98. Spotted Towhee
99. Vesper Sparrow
100. Lark Bunting
101. Song Sparrow
102. Harris's Sparrow
103. White-crowned Sparrow
104. Dark-eyed Junco
105. Red-winged Blackbird
106. Western Meadowlark
107. Yellow-headed Blackbird
108. Brewer's Blackbird
109. Common Grackle
110. Great-tailed Grackle
111. Brown-headed Cowbird
112. Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
113. Pine Grosbeak
114. Cassin's Finch
115. House Finch
116. Pine Siskin
117. American Goldfinch
118. Evening Grosbeak
119. House Sparrow

Mammal List

1. Eastern Cottontail
2. Black-tailed Jackrabbit
3. Colorado Chipmunk
4. Say's Ground Squirrel
5. Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
6. Wyoming Ground Squirrel
7. Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
8. Rock Squirrel
9. Black-tailed Prairie Dog
10. White-tailed Prairie Dog
11. Porcupine
12. Coyote
13. Mule Deer
14. Elk
15. Pronghorn