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In the U.S. state of Colorado 519 species of birds have been documented as of September 2022 according to the Colorado Bird Records Committee (CBRC) of Colorado Field Ornithologists. [ 1 ] This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds , 7th edition through the 63rd Supplement, published by ...
Red Kite at Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Wales, a local feeding ground. The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. The species currently breeds only in Europe, though it formerly also bred in west Asia and northwest Africa.
A white-tailed ptarmigan, common above timberline. This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Rocky Mountain National Park, a 265,461 acres (107,428 ha) park in the U.S. state of Colorado.
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [ 4 ] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States , American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
Red kite: Accipitridae: Milvus milvus (Linnaeus, 1758) 189 Black kite: Accipitridae: Milvus migrans (Boddaert, 1783) 190 Yellow-billed kite: Accipitridae: Milvus aegyptius (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 191 Whistling kite: Accipitridae: Haliastur sphenurus (Vieillot, 1818) 192 Brahminy kite: Accipitridae: Haliastur indus (Boddaert, 1783) 193 Steller's sea ...
The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
Milvus is a genus of medium-sized birds of prey.The genus was erected by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799 with the red kite as the type species. [1] [2] The name is the Latin word for the red kite.
The listed birds are based on the southern section of the Lower Colorado River Valley, from Yuma County and La Paz County, to the Bill Williams River, (and by extension to Needles, California/Topock, Arizona). The Colorado River borders the higher elevation Mojave Desert to the northwest (Needles and Las Vegas), the Colorado Desert–(extension ...