Swallow-Tailed Kite records in CO

[Peter Gent]

All,

This record is the first of four documented sightings in the records committee database:  http://coloradobirdrecords.org/Reports/SpeciesDetail.aspx?id=92

Peter Gent.

Boulder.

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From: Anne Price <rapto...@msn.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:56 AM
Subject: [cobirds] RE: Swallow-Tailed Kite Lamar (Prowers Co)
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Greetings COBIRDERS:

 

Great job to all have seen and are searching for this kite!  As a side note, while cataloguing exotic bird specimens at the University of Colorado-Boulder Museum of Natural History in the late 1980s, I came across a swallow-tailed kite placed in the wrong drawer. The tag indicated that the adult bird had been shot in Colorado Springs in the late 1800s, after Colorado became a state in 1876.

 

Good luck relocating the bird!

 

~Anne Price

Littleton, Jefferson Co.