We're Proud of Our Accomplishments

• We are instrumental in helping to fund the only environmental, conservation lobbyists in the state legislature.
  
  
• We funded 3 radio transmitters on Black Swifts to track their return to wintering grounds.  As a result of this study, it was found that they winter in the Andes of Peru; information never known before. Three of these same birds returned to Colorado this past summer to again breed and raise their young.
  
  
• Last spring (2011), we installed interpretive signage at Spring Park Reservoir to help folks understand the importance of this stop-over feeding and recovery area for 1000’s of water fowl during migration. We were instrumental in having Spring Park designated an Important Bird Area (IBA); a national program with over 50 IBA’s in Colorado and 100’s across the country.
  
  
• We are helping the US Forest Service with their 50,000 acre habitat improvement project; providing critical breeding bird information for all the habitats and elevations in their planned areas.
  
  
• We worked with several of the local schools, building Bluebird nest boxes with the children, and educating them about bird migration, nesting and feeding.
  
  
• We will conduct our 36th Christmas Count this year, and will conduct our 27th Spring Count in May. This data from thousands of other counts in the United States, Canada, Central, and South America, will give scientists a better picture of bird health in our hemisphere.
  
  
• We lead about many free birding field trips each year, and welcome everyone, no matter what level or skill.
  
  
• We have changed our meeting location to Carbondale, mid-valley, to make our free winter educational programs more accessible to all.