![]() They are listed as a globally threatened species.īlack-bellied plovers and mountain plovers, grassland species recorded in 1982, rarely make our count anymore, but eBird has sightings recorded for April 2020-when everyone was out birding more than usual. Maybe they migrated earlier this year thanks to weather or climate change.Įvening grosbeak made the 1982 list, but it is hard to find them anywhere these days. The 1982 count lists five winter species we didn’t see this count: bufflehead (duck), rough-legged hawk, northern shrike and at the time what are now subspecies of dark-eyed junco listed as two species, Oregon junco and gray-headed junco. –Common raven, though they have always been reliably seen starting about 10 or 15 miles west of town, my first Cheyenne observation wasn’t until 2010. –Great-tailed grackle in 2003 was my first Cheyenne observation. –Eurasian collared-dove was first observed in Wyoming here in Cheyenne in 1998. –Cackling goose was split from Canada goose in 2004. Some species passed through before our count day and some could have still been here count day but in less abundance and we missed them.īesides all the species name changes in the last 40 years, what’s interesting is what isn’t on the 1982 list but is in 2022: But if you look at eBird for the first three weeks of May this year in Laramie County, 185 species are listed. The difference between which species were seen in 1982 but not this year, 29, was close to how many were seen in 2021 but not this year, 27. ![]() The total number of species seen was nearly the same, 124. I came across the scan of a “Tribune Eagle” article about the 1982 Big Day, held a week earlier than this year’s, with 40 people counting. –Baltimore oriole, the eastern counterpart to our Bullock’s, came by with a female. –Red-headed woodpeckers showed up in two locations, including a pair in one. –Harris’s sparrow may winter next door in Nebraska but is seldom seen here. –Broad-tailed hummingbird was trying to get nectar out of frozen crabapple blossoms at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. It is considered rare in Wyoming, wintering on either coast and nesting in the Arctic. –Red-throated loon juvenile was seen at Sloans Lake for several days before and on the count. Our total of 125 species is not too shabby considering the weather was chilly, but not windy. I’m sure our Cheyenne Big Day Bird Count compiler for Cheyenne Audubon, Grant Frost, was thinking to avoid cold, nasty weather when he picked May 21 instead of the 14 th for the count. Published June 4, 2022, in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Photo by Mark Gorges.Ĭheyenne Big Day Bird Count catches Arctic visitor This juvenile red-throated loon spent several days on Sloans Lake in Lions Park.
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