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Cheyenne High Plains Chapter


of the

National Audubon Society

Cheyenne, Wyoming
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Located in the high plains area of southeastern Wyoming.

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Announcements
Field Trips/Meetings
Where to Bird
Area IBAs
General Info
Related Links
Contact Us

This page was last revised on May 6, 2013.

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Announcements of Special Interest

Please consider volunteering to serve on the CHPAS Board of Directors. See page 2 of this month's newsletter for some detail on what this entails. The future of the chapter depends on getting more of our members involved in the planning process. No previous experience required; mentoring is available. And you do not need to be available for each and every event or meeting -- Board members attend board meetings, programs and field trips as their personal schedules allow.

Home page for KRAE radio and The Backyard Network Radio Show. This is a relatively new radio show (August 2012) originating in Cheyenne, featuring news about birding, bats and other backyard wildlife and wildlife-friendly topics of interest. Saturdays, from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m.

Annual local chapter dues of $12.00 for the 2012-2013 administrative year are gratefully accepted to help support chapter activities. You may send your check, along with your name, mailing address, and email address to CHPAS, P.O. Box 2502, Cheyenne, WY 82003. Dues pay for membership through the end of the administrative year, August 31st.

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Field Trips and Meetings

Please see the current issue of our newsletter, the "Flyer," for more detail.
For field trips, be sure to wear walking shoes and appropriate clothing. Of course, in Wyoming, this means being prepared for sun, snow, rain, heat, cold, and (usually) wind. Bring binoculars and your favorite field guides (and lunch/snacks and water for out of town trips).

Suggestions for field trips and camp-outs are welcome. Does anyone have any ideas? If so, please contact Barb Gorges.

Monthly meetings will normally be held in the Laramie County Library at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month for the 2012-2013 administrative year. The included lectures are free and open to the public. [No public meetings from May through August, resuming in September. Join us for field trips instead during that time.]
For further information on lectures, please call 634-0463. Be sure to bring along your own bird sightings to share with other attendees.

Quick Look Calendar for Upcoming Events

Please see newsletter for all the details.

May 2013

17 Pre-Big Day Potluck 5-6:30 p.m., Cheyenne Botanic Gardens Greenhouse. Bring your own dinnerware and beverage and salad, entrée or dessert to share.

18 Big Day Bird Count Annual event, where we count the species found in the Cheyenne area during a 24-hour period. You may meet at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens at 6:30 am or 8:00 am or both. See newsletter for more details.

19 Bird Open House at the Paul Smith Children's Village, from 1 pm until 4 pm.

19 Big Day Bird Count Tally Party. 4 pm at the Children's Village. This is where we get together and merge the results of the previous day's bird count -- where we find out who saw what and where.

31 Cheyenne Country Club Monthly Survey 8 am. Please call Chuck Seniawski (638-6519) by the Wednesday prior if you wish to join in. Weather and grounds permitting, we use golf carts to get around the golf course. We need to give the Country Club our needs in advance.

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References for Birding in our local area.

Where can I bird in the Cheyenne area? In other parts of Wyoming?

For starters, we recommend you check out the area's IBA's, described below, in the next section of this Web page.

Suggestions for birding in the Cheyenne area and around the state are included as a part of Wyoming Birds, Second Edition, by Jane L. and Robert D. Dorn, Mountain West Publishing, Cheyenne, 1999.

Wyoming Bird Atlas

For viewers who are interested in a much more detailed treatment of where to find birds and other of Nature's game and non-game creatures which may be found in Wyoming, you may consult the on-line (.pdf) version of the Atlas of Birds, Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles in Wyoming, found at this link. Be forewarned that this publication is 210 pages long, and may take a while to download on a dial-up connection to the Internet.
Birds of Wyoming, by Douglas W. Faulkner, (c)2010, is an excellent desk reference for common and not-so-common species observed in Wyoming ever since bird sightings started being formally documented in the early 1900s. It includes several essays on the history of ornithology in Wyoming, Wyoming wildlife habitats, and resident and non-resident species accounts, with color photos and range maps. Published by Roberts and Company, Greenwood, Colorado, and available through both the publisher and Amazon.com.

The Bird Checklist for Cheyenne and Southeastern Wyoming is now on line.
Click here to get a copy of this .pdf file.

The Wyoming Bird Checklist is also available on line.
Click here to view.

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Important Bird Areas

Cheyenne has two Important Bird Areas(IBA) and one non-IBA that always has some action:

a. Lion's Park, including Sloan's Lake and Kiwanis Lake.
This is a park in the City of Cheyenne parks system. The entrance is near Eighth Avenue and Carey Avenue, close to the airport.
b. Wyoming Hereford Ranch, to the southeast of Cheyenne.
It is adjacent to and south of I-80, at the Campstool Road exit. (This is private property, so be sure to stay on roads and otherwise respect the property rights of the owners.)
IN ADDITION, Holliday Park in Cheyenne is popular with waterfowl, wild and domestic, the year round. It also features nesting black-crowned night herons in the Spring.
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Recent Cheyenne Audubon Bird Count Results


The Christmas Bird Count results for 2013 may be viewed by clicking here.

For the results of the Big Count Day (May 19, 2012) survey, Click here.

The Christmas Bird Count results for 2011 may be viewed by clicking here.

For the results of the Big Count Day (May 21, 2011) survey, Click here.

The Christmas Bird Count results for 2010 may be viewed by clicking here.

For the results of the Big Count Day (May 15, 2010) survey, Click here.

The Christmas Bird Count results for 2009 may be viewed by clicking here.

For the results of the Big Count Day (May 16, 2009) survey, Click here.

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General Information

To get contact information for your Wyoming State legislators, and bill status when the legislature is in session, see this link. When the legislature is in session, messages may be left for your senator at 777-7711 or your representative at 771-7852. The Voter Hotline, on which you may leave only a "yes" or "no voting recommendations for your legislators, is at 777-VOTE or 1-866-996-8683. You may also e-mail legislators.

Want to stay informed about birds in Wyoming?

One way is to subscribe to the wyobirds list serve. Sign up by going to the wyobirds sign up page.
(As should always be the case, make sure you read the terms of service before signing up for this list serve. Then, if you want to join the 220+ subscribers, you can receive and post emails about birding-related activities in Wyoming -- from sightings to administrative items.) Regular contributors from around Wyoming keep us all up to date on migration progress and locations of bird populations as they are observed. It's about the closest thing we have to a rare bird alert in the state.

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Related links

  • Home page for KRAE radio and The Backyard Network Radio Show. This is a new radio show (August 2012) originating in Cheyenne, featuring news about birding, bats and other backyard wildlife topics of interest. Saturdays, from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m.

  • Rockies Audubon Home Page This regional office includes Wyoming as part of its territory.

  • National Audubon Society Home Page

  • Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

  • Cornell University's Project Feeder Watch
    To become a FeederWatcher, you may sign up via the Web site or call 1-800-843-2473 or send $15 to Project FeederWatch, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, P.O. Box 11, Ithaca, NY 14851-0011. Expect the research kit in about three weeks.

    Other Wyoming Audubon links:
    Murie Audubon Society, Casper, WY

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    Contact Us

    CHPAS
    P.O. Box 2502
    Cheyenne, WY 82003-6402

    Carpooling for field trips.......Art Anderson at 638-1286.
    To volunteer to do a program.........Barb Gorges, at 634-0463.
    To report unusual bird sightings...Barb Gorges, at 634-0463.
    For membership information........Mark Gorges, at 634-0463.


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