Bird Bombs

Bird Bombs are helpful bursts of ID information presented by David Suddjian, the DFO field trip chair. Click on the video icon to view the presentation.
  • BIRD BOMBS: Ups and Downs in Colorado BIRD BOMBS: Ups and Downs in Colorado
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    Presented Feb 26 2026
    Breeding bird population trends
    Focus species: Nesting birds monitored by the North American Breeding Bird Survey
  • BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Winter Birds Around Town BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Winter Birds Around Town
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    Presented Dec 18 2025
    Birds of the winter season in the Front Range metro areas
    Focus species: Birds of urban, suburban and natural areas in the Colorado Front Range metro areas
  • BIRD BOMBS: Autumn ID Challenges BIRD BOMBS: Autumn ID Challenges
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    Presented Oct 23 2025
    Identification of fall and winter loons, scoters, Eared and Horned grebes
    Focus species: Eared Grebe, Horned Grebe, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Black Scoter, Red-throated Loon, Pacific Loon, Common Loon, Yellow-billed Loon
  • BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Prairie View BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Prairie View
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    Presented Aug 21 2025
    Bird communities of Coloradp prairie grassland, agricultural lands and playas
    Focus species: Focused ID discussion of longspurs, Spizella sparrows and small Calidris sandpipers
  • BIRD BOMBS Summer ID Challenges BIRD BOMBS Summer ID Challenges
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    Presented Jul 17 2025
    Explore some common summer time ID challenges
    Focus species: Summer hummingbirds and juveniles of several songbird species
  • BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Riparian Zone BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Riparian Zone
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    Presented May 22 2025
    Learn about the bird communities of Colorado's riparian forests
    Focus species: Birds of lowland and montane riparian habitats
  • BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Cone Forests BIRD BOMBS Habitat Blast: Cone Forests
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    Presented Apr 10 2025
    Learn about the bird communities of Colorado's montane forests
    Focus species: Birds of conifer and aspen forest habitats
  • BIRD BOMBS: ID Masters - Spring Edition BIRD BOMBS: ID Masters - Spring Edition
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    Presented Mar 13 2025
    Spring ID challenges to be ready for
    Focus species: Female teal, Horned and Eared Grebes, Solitary Sandpiper, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs
  • BIRD BOMBS: Raptors for Real BIRD BOMBS: Raptors for Real
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    Presented Jan 23 2025
    ID of winter raptors
    Focus species: Bald and Golden Eagles, American Kestrel, Merlin, Prairie Falcon, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed, Rough-legged and Ferruginous Hawks
  • BIRD BOMBS: CBC Explosion! BIRD BOMBS: CBC Explosion!
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    Presented Dec 12 2024
    Basic winter bird ID challenges we will have on the CBCs
    Focus species: Focus on Sharp-shinned & Cooper's hawks, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, House and Cassin's Finches, White-crowned and Am Tree Sparrows, and American Crow and Common Raven
  • BIRD BOMBS: Colorado ID Masters - Winter Waterfowl Edition BIRD BOMBS: Colorado ID Masters - Winter Waterfowl Edition
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    Presented Nov 21 2024
    A look at key ID challenges in our winter ducks
    Focus species: Greater and Lesser scaup, Barrow's and Common goldeneyes, Red-breasted and Common Mergansers, female Aythya and female dabblers
  • BIRD BOMBS: Eyes on Geese and Swans BIRD BOMBS: Eyes on Geese and Swans
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    Presented Oct 17 2024
    Identification of Colorado's geese and swans
    Focus species: Canada, Cackling, Greater White-fronted, Snow, and Ross's geese and Brant, Tundra and Trumpeter swans
  • BIRD BOMBS: Assfeet BIRD BOMBS: Assfeet
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    Presented Sep 12 2024
    Identification of Colorado grebes
    Focus species: Pied-billed, Eared, Horned, Red-necked, Western and Clark's grebes
  • BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Plovers BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Plovers
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    Presented Aug 15 2024
    Identification of Colorado plovers
    Focus species: Black-bellied, American Golden, Mountain, Killdeer, Semipalmated, Snowy, Piping plovers
  • BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Bird Taxonomy Made Simple BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Bird Taxonomy Made Simple
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    Presented Jul 25 2024
    Understanding bird relationships iads identification and appreciation
    Focus species:
  • BIRD BOMBS: Tropical Color BIRD BOMBS: Tropical Color
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    Presented Jun 20 2024
    Identification of Colorado's orioles, buntings, grosbeaks and tanagers
    Focus species: Bullock's, Baltimore and Orchard orioles, Western and Summer tanagers, Black-headed, Rose-breasted and Blue Grosbeaks, Lazuli and Indigo buntings
  • BIRD BOMBS: Spring Into Warblers 2 BIRD BOMBS: Spring Into Warblers 2
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    Presented May 9 2024
    Identification of Colorado's 12 nesting warblers
    Focus species: Ovenbird, Lucy's, Orange-crowned, Virginia's, MacGillivray's, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Grace's, Black-throated Gray, Wilson's, Common Yellowthroat, and American Redstart
  • BIRD BOMBS: Spring Shorebird Salute BIRD BOMBS: Spring Shorebird Salute
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    Presented Apr 4 2024
    Identification of spring migrant sandpipers
    Focus species: 18 focal species: LBCU, WHIM, MAGO, STSA, SAND, BASA, LESA, WESA, SESA, WRSA, LBDO, WIPH, RNPH, SOSA, LEYE, WILL, GRYE
  • BIRD BOMBS: I Wish They All Could Be California Gulls BIRD BOMBS: I Wish They All Could Be California Gulls
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    Presented Jan 11 2024
    Identification of Winter Gulls
    Focus species: Short-billed, California, Iceland, Glaucous, Lesser Black-backed and Great Black-backed Gulls
  • BIRD BOMBS: Get Gullable BIRD BOMBS: Get Gullable
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    Presented Dec 14 2023
    Basics of Colorado Gull ID
    Focus species: Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull and others
  • BIRD BOMBS: Prairie Hawks BIRD BOMBS: Prairie Hawks
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    Presented Nov 16 2023
    Identification of Colorado Buteo Hawks
    Focus species: Broad-winged Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Ferruginous Hawk
  • BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Sea Ducks BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Sea Ducks
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    Presented Oct 19 2023
    Identification of Scoters and Long-tailed Duck
    Focus species: Surf, White-wing and Black Scoters, Long-tailed Duck
  • BIRD BOMBS It's Probably a Red-tail BIRD BOMBS It's Probably a Red-tail
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    Presented Sep 14 2023
    Colorado's most important raptor to know well
    Focus species: Red-tailed Hawk
  • BIRD BOMBS Falling for Warblers BIRD BOMBS Falling for Warblers
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    Presented Aug 17 2023
    Identification of Colorado's fall migrant warblers
    Focus species: Orange-crowned, Nashville, Virginia's, Yellow, Wilson's, MacGillivray's, Townsend's and Yellow-rumped Warblers and Common Yellowthroat
  • BIRD BOMBS I'm Molting! BIRD BOMBS I'm Molting!
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    Presented Jul 20 2023
    Understanding the nuts and bolts of molt
    Focus species: American Robin, Chipping Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Mallard, European Starling
  • BIRD BOMBS Prairie Sparrows BIRD BOMBS Prairie Sparrows
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    Presented Jun 22 2023
    Identification of Colorado's nesting grassland sparrows
    Focus species: Vesper, Savannah, Lark, Grasshopper, Cassin's Field Sparrows and Lark Bunting
  • BIRD BOMBS It's a Flycatcher BIRD BOMBS It's a Flycatcher
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    Presented May 4 2023
    Identification of Colorado's nesting flycatchers
    Focus species: Breeding species of kingbirds, phoebes, wood-pewees, Ash-throated Flycatcher and Empidonax
  • BIRD BOMBS: Spring Swallows BIRD BOMBS: Spring Swallows
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    Presented Apr 13 2023
    Identification of Colorado's swallows
    Focus species: Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, N. Rough-winged Swallow, Cliff Swallow
  • BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Blues BIRD BOMBS: Colorado Blues
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    Presented Mar 9 2023
    Identification of Colorado’s bluebirds
    Focus species: Eastern Bluebird, Western Bluebird, Mountain Bluebird
  • BIRD BOMBS: Where's That on the Bird? BIRD BOMBS: Where's That on the Bird?
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    Presented Feb 9 2023
    Bird topography and the names of parts
    Focus species: Images of 147 Colorado species are used
  • BIRD BOMBS: Mountain Finches BIRD BOMBS: Mountain Finches
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    Presented Jan 12 2023
    Identification of Colorado’s mountain finches
    Focus species: Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, Black Rosy-Finch, Brown-capped Rosy-Finch, Pine Grosbeak, Evening Grosbeak, Cassin’s Finch, Red Crossbill
  • BIRD BOMBS: First State Record! BIRD BOMBS: First State Record!
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    Presented Dec 29 2022
    Predicting the next new species for Colorado
    Focus species: Top predictions for new state additions by 25 top Colorado birders
  • BIRD BOMBS: Better Duck BIRD BOMBS: Better Duck
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    Presented Dec 8 2022
    Identification of Colorado’s winter ducks
    Focus species: 19 regular wintering species
  • BIRD BOMBS: Forest Hawks BIRD BOMBS: Forest Hawks
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    Presented Nov 17 2022
    Identification of Accipiters
    Focus species: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, Northern Goshawk
  • BIRD BOMBS: Looking At Loons BIRD BOMBS: Looking At Loons
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    Presented Oct 13 2022
    Identification of Colorado’s loons
    Focus species: Common Loon, Yellow-billed Loon, Pacific Loon, Red-throated Loon
  • BIRD BOMBS: Fall Sparrows BIRD BOMBS: Fall Sparrows
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    Presented Sep 8 2022
    Identification of fall sparrows of the Metro region
    Focus species: Chipping Sparrow, Brewer’s Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Harris’s Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow
  • BIRD BOMBS: The Little Pipers BIRD BOMBS: The Little Pipers
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    Presented Aug 18 2022
    Identification of fall migrant sandpipers in the genus Calidris
    Focus species: Pectoral Sandpiper, Baird’s Sandpiper, Sanderling, Western Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Dunlin
  • BIRD BOMBS: It Has Yellow Legs BIRD BOMBS: It Has Yellow Legs
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    Presented Aug 4 2022
    Identification of fall migrant sandpipers with yellow legs
    Focus species: Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Wilson’s Phalarope, Long-billed Dowitcher
  • BIRD BOMBS: Summer Hummers BIRD BOMBS: Summer Hummers
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    Presented Jul 14 2022
    Identification of Colorado’s common hummingbirds
    Focus species: Black-chinned Hummingbird, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Calliope Hummingbird
  • BIRD BOMBS: 4 & 20 Black Birds BIRD BOMBS: 4 & 20 Black Birds
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    Presented Jun 23 2022
    Identification of Colorado’s nesting blackbirds
    Focus species: Yellow-headed Blackbird, Common Grackle, Great-tailed Grackle, Brownheaded Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Brewer’s Blackbird
  • BIRD BOMBS: Kings of the Road BIRD BOMBS: Kings of the Road
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    Presented May 19 2022
    Identification of Colorado’s nesting kingbirds
    Focus species: Western Kingbird, Cassin’s Kingbird, Eastern Kingbird, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • BIRD BOMBS: Spring into Warblers BIRD BOMBS: Spring into Warblers
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    Presented Apr 28 2022
    Identification of common spring warblers
    Focus species: Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Wilson’s Warbler, MacGillivray’s Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Virginia’s Warbler, Yellow Warbler