I only have a few more Colorado birds left, then I'll be going back to birds that we've seen in Maryland. We saw the next few birds after they were caught to be tagged. While this is cheating a little bit, I'm still counting them towards my list, since they were released back into the wild.
Today's bird, the Cordilleran Flycatcher, breeds in the Rocky Mountains. It is very difficult to identify this bird in the wild, since many flycatchers look closely alike. The best ways to distinguish species of flycatcher are by voice, by breeding habitat, and by range.
When this bird was caught and examined, the tagger spent several minutes measuring different parts of its body to make sure it was identified correctly.
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