2015 Barrow's Goldeneye Count

[Jason Beason]

Greetings,

The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies will be compiling data for the seventeenth consecutive Barrow’s Goldeneye (BAGO) count again this year. In 2015, we will be accepting data collected 21 November through 6 December. The reason for this count is to monitor the wintering population of this species in Colorado since it is possible that all BAGO in the state during this time period represents the Colorado breeding population. However, no one knows for certain if some BAGO migrate from Wyoming or further north.

We appreciate any reports of BAGO in Colorado during the count period. We encourage everyone to enter their count totals into the eBird database. I will check eBird for BAGO reported during this time period for those of you that don't post on CoBirds or WSBN.  Or, you can send count totals to me at this e-mail address or jason DOT beason AT birdconservancy DOT org.

Here are the totals for each year of the count:
1999 – 226 at 8 sites
2000 – 107 at 16 sites (less effort)
2001 – 181 at 20 sites
2002 – 189 at 16 sites
2003 – 245 at 21 sites
2004 – 226 at 14 sites
2005 – 219 at 16 sites
2006 – 280 at 21 sites
2007 – 225 at 17 sites
2008 – 183 at 19 sites
2009 – 163 at 16 sites

2010 – 163 at 16 sites

2011 – 217 at 24 sites

2012 – 214 at 19 sites

2013 – 247 at 19 sites

2014 – 152 at 19 sites

 Locations where BAGO were counted in 2014:

County	Location
Adams	Rocky Mtn Arsenal NWR - Lower Derby Lake
Adams	South Platte River @ 88th Ave
Arapahoe	Cherry Creek State Park
Arapahoe	Southe Platte Park
Chaffee	Sands Lake SWA
Douglas	Platte Canyon Reservoir
Eagle	Spring Park Reservoir
Garfield	Rifle Gap Reservoir
Grand	Lake Granby
Larimer	Timnath Reservoir
Mesa	Collbran, 5052 Colorado 330
Mesa	Jerry Creek Pond
Mesa	Molina - Hwy 330 ponds
Moffat	Craig Station Inlet Pond
Park	Eleven Mile Reservoir
Routt	Stagecoach Reservoir
Summit	Silverthorne Water Treatment Plant
Weld	Poudre Ponds
Weld	Union Reservoir

Thank you and Good Birding!

Jason Beason
Special Monitoring Projects Coordinator
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies