RMBO produces several types of publications  We produce annual reports that are distributed to our funders and partners.  Protocols are documents that detail our monitoring methodology and articles are staff produced publications for journals.

Management Manuals
Reports
Protocols
Articles

Management Manuals

Reports

• CO Wetlands Monitoring and Evaluation Project Report 2006.pdf
• CO Wetlands Monitoring Project South Platte Migration 2007 Final Report.pdf
• Colorado Playas 2007 Final Report.pdf
• Nebraska Playas 2007 Final Report.pdf
• Road Effects in Sagerbrush at Wolford Mountain 2006 Final Report.pdf

Protocols

Section Survey Monitoring Protocol - 2005 (1.25 MB)

Point Transect Monitoring Protocol - 2005 (150 KB)

Point Transect Monitoring Protocol -2006(550 KB)

Articles

2004

Faulkner, D. 2004. Glossy Ibis Records for Colorado and Neighboring States. Western Birds 35:147-155.

Faulkner, D., and Levad, R. 2004. Purple Martins Found Nesting in Wyoming. Purple Martin Update 13(4).

Leukering, T. 2004. Writing Bird Descriptions: Ruling Out Other Species. Colorado Birds 38:120-127.

Leukering, T. and L.S. Semo. 2004. The 38th Report of the Colorado Bird Records Committee. Colorado Birds 38:168-183.

Leukering, T. and L.S. Semo. 2004. Report of the Colorado Bird Records Committee: 2001 Reports, Part II. Colorado Birds 38:14-21.

Lucero, J. and A. Cariveau. 2004. Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the San Luis Valley. Colorado Birds 38:67-69.

Rich, T.D., C.J. Beardmore, H. Berlanga, P.J. Blancher, M.S.W. Bradstreet, G.S. Butcher, D.W. Demarest, E.H. Dunn, W.C. Hunter, E.E. Inigo-Elias, J.A. Kennedy, A.M. Martell, A.O. Panjabi, D.N. Pashley, K.V. Rosenberg, C.M. Rustay, J.S. Wendt, T.C. Will. 2004. Partners in Flight North American Landbird Conservation Plan. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Ithaca, NY.

Semo, L.S. and T. Leukering. 2004. Corrigenda and Additions to "Amendments to the State Review List". Colorado Birds 38: 23-28.

2002

Corkum, C., and T. Toombs. 2002. Prairie Partners. NEBRASKAland 80(2):46.

Levad, R., and T. Leukering. 2002. Inventories of Colorado's Great Blue Herons: 1999–2001. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 36:62–71.

Rosenstock, S. S., D. R. Anderson, K. M. Giesen, T. Leukering, and M. F. Carter. 2002. Landbird counting techniques: current practices and an alternative. Auk 119:46–53.

Wood, C. L., and L. S. Semo. 2002. News from the field: the summer 2001 report (June–July). Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 36:36–49.

2001

Gillihan, S. W. 2001. Avian responses to ponderosa pine ecosystem restoration: Pines Project demonstration plots 2001. Submitted to San Juan National Forest.

Gillihan, S. W. 2001. Influence of aspen stand characteristics on bird communities. Submitted to Rio Grande National Forest.

Gillihan, S. W. 2001. Response of bird populations to prescribed burning in old-growth ponderosa pine: pre-treatment assessment. Submitted to San Juan National Forest.

Gillihan, S. W., and B. Byers. 2001. Evening Grosbeak. In The Birds of North America, No. 599. (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Gillihan, S. W., and M. F. Carter. 2001. Bird Conservation Regions: the shortgrass prairie. Birding 33:546-551.

Gillihan, S. W., D. J. Hanni, S. W. Hutchings, T. Toombs, and T. VerCauteren. 2001. Sharing Your Land with Shortgrass Prairie Birds. Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, Brighton, CO.

Gillihan, S. W., T. VerCauteren, and R. Levad. 2001. Analysis of western Purple Martin tree- nesting habitat in Colorado at multiple spatial scales. Submitted to San Juan National Forest.

Giroir, G. 2001. It's an owl-eat-owl world. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 35:40.

Leukering, T., R. Levad, D. Faulkner, and K. Potter. 2001. First annual Colorado early-winter waterbird survey. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 35:160–176.

Leukering, T., and C. Wood. 2001. News from the field: summer 2000 report (June–July). Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 35:46–61.

Levad, R., and T. Leukering. 2001. Found: the West Slope's first great migrant trap. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 35:17–19.

Panjabi, A. 2001. Monitoring the birds of the Black Hills: Year 1. Submitted to Black Hills National Forest.

VerCauteren, T. L, and S. W. Gillihan. 2001. Studying shortgrass birds in north-central Colorado. Birding 33:550.

VerCauteren, T. L., S. W. Gillihan, and S. W. Hutchings. 2001. Distribution of Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) on public and private lands in Colorado. Journal of Raptor Research 35:357–361.

2000

Carter, M. F., and S. W. Gillihan. 2000. Influence of stand shape, size, and structural stage on forest bird communities in Colorado. Pp. 271–284 in R. L. Knight, F. W. Smith, S. W. Buskirk, W. H. Romme, and W. L. Baker, eds. Forest Fragmentation in the Southern Rocky Mountains. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Carter, M. F., W. C. Hunter, D. N. Pashley, and K. Rosenberg. 2000. Setting conservation priorities for landbirds in the United States: the Partners in Flight approach. Auk 117:541–548.

Faulkner, D. 2000. Birds of Lone Dome State Wildlife Area and Dolores River corridor. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:130–143.

Gillihan, S. W. 2000. Avian responses to ponderosa pine ecosystem restoration: Pines Project demonstration plots 2000. Submitted to Southwestern Colorado Research Committee (U.S. Forest Service and Colorado Division of Wildlife).

Gillihan, S. W. 2000. Barbed wire fence fatal to Burrowing Owl. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:220–221.

Gillihan, S. W. 2000. Bird Conservation on Golf Courses: A Design and Management Manual. Ann Arbor Press, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI. (Contact Publisher)

Gillihan, S. W., and S. W. Hutchings. 2000. Best Management Practices for Shortgrass Prairie Birds: A Landowner's Guide. Colorado Bird Observatory, Brighton, CO.

Hutchings, S. 2000. Fledgling Loggerhead Shrike impaled on cholla. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:159.

Leukering, T. 2000. Ageing Green-tailed Towhees (Pipilo chlorurus) by eye color. North American Bird Bander 25:13–15.

Leukering, T. 2000. Greater Scaup invade Barr Lake. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:214–216.

Leukering, T. 2000. News from the field: spring 2000 report (March–May). Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:228–246.

Leukering, T. 2000. News from the field: the summer 1999 report (June–July). Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:67–76.

Leukering, T., and L. Dombroski. 2000. Birds at Apishapa State Wildlife Area in north-central Las Animas County. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:10–23.

Levad, R. 2000. First breeding record of Franklin's Gull for Colorado. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 34:88–90.

Sealy, S. G., A. J. Banks, J. F. Chase. 2000. Two species of Warbling Vireo differ in their responses to cowbird eggs. Western Birds 31:190–194.

1999

Gillihan, S. W. 1999. Best management practices for selected bird species of the Comanche National Grassland. Submitted to U.S. Forest Service, Comanche National Grassland.

Gillihan, S. W. 1999. Final report on the behavioral ecology and habitat use of the Standley Lake Bald Eagle pair. Submitted to Jefferson County Open Space Department.

Giroir, G. 1999. Distribution and numbers of breeding Willets (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) in Colorado. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 33:8–14.

Giroir, G., and T. Leukering. 1999. Breeding distribution and numbers of Eared, Western, and Clark's Grebes in Colorado. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 33:83–90.

Leukering, T. 1999. News from the field: the spring 1999 report (March–May). Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 33:253–267.

Leukering, T. 1999. Sapsuckers in Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado. Journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists 33:184–185.

1998

Gillihan, S. W. 1998. Avian responses to ponderosa pine ecosystem restoration. Submitted to Southwestern Colorado Wildlife Research Committee (U.S. Forest Service and Colorado Division of Wildlife) and Colorado Natural Areas Program.

Gillihan, S. W. 1998. Final report on the behavioral ecology and habitat use of the Standley Lake Bald Eagle pair, 2 October 1997 – 18 August 1998. Submitted to Jefferson County Open Space.

1997

Gillihan, S. W. 1997. The influence of white fir invasion and road presence on ponderosa pine bird communities in the San Juan National Forest. Submitted to San Juan National Forest.

Gillihan, S. W. 1997. Final report on the behavioral ecology and habitat use of the Standley Lake Bald Eagle pair, 26 February – 15 June 1997. Submitted to Jefferson County Open Space.

Leukering, T., and J. Bradley. 1997. Some observations of birds on the Central Mexican Plateau. Western Birds 28:177–180.

Mabee, T. J. 1997. Using eggshell evidence to determine nest fate of shorebirds. Wilson Bulletin 109:307–313.

1996

Gillihan, S. W., and M. F. Carter. 1996. Bird communities in mature spruce-fir stands after group-selection harvesting. Submitted to Rio Grande National Forest.

Gillihan, S. W., and M. F. Carter. 1996. Bird populations in a natural forest mosaic: the mixed- conifer community of the Rio Grande National Forest. Submitted to Rio Grande National Forest.

Gillihan, S. W., and M. F. Carter. 1996. Bird populations in relation to level of western spruce budworm defoliation in a Colorado mixed-conifer forest. Submitted to Rio Grande National Forest.

1995

Estelle, V., and S. W. Gillihan. 1995. Mountain Plover survey results for Comanche National Grassland, Bent and Kiowa Counties, Spring 1995. Submitted to U.S. Forest Service, Comanche National Grassland.