Birds At The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

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Common Birds

Loons
Grebes
Pelicans
Cormorants
Bitterns and Herons
Ibises
Waterfowl
Amer Vultures
Eagles and Hawks
Falcons
Fowl-like Birds
Rails and Coots
Cranes
Plovers
Stilts and Avocets
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Gulls and Terns
Doves
Cuckoos
Owls
Goatsuckers
Swifts
Kingfishers
Woodpeckers
Flycatchers
Larks
Swallows
Jays, Magpies and Crows
Chickadees
Nuthatches
Creepers
Wrens
Kinglets, Gnatchatchers and Thrushes
Mimic thrushes
Pipits
Waxwings
Shrikes and Starlings
Vireos
Wood Warblers
Tanagers
Grosbeaks and Buntings
Towhees and Sparrows
Blackbirds and Orioles
Finches
Weaver finches

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BIRDS ON THE REFUGE

BIRD CHECK LIST (revised Sept. 2009) (pdf 360KB)

Eagle In A Cottonwood
Photo Credit: Dave Showalter © All Rights Reserved

Check out the NATURE PROGRAMS for birding opportunities. Depending on the time of year, the tours offer a good opportunity to see pelicans, burrowing owls, snowy egrets, bullock's orioles, blue herons and eagles to name just a few.

American Avocet

Pelicans On Lake Ladora
Photo Credit: Dave Showalter,
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"One of our sweetest, loudest songsters is the Meadow lark...the plains air seems to give it a voice...."
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Last Updated: 9/21/09

Fish & Wildlife

50 Years of Documenting Our Wild Heritage

Every spring and summer, for the past 50 years, teams of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pilot-biologists take to the skies to survey North America’s waterfowl breeding grounds. Flying more than 80,000 miles, crisscrossing the country just above the treetops, they and observers on the ground, record the number of ducks, geese and swans, and assess the quality and quantity of waterfowl breeding habitats.
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