Colorado Birding

Weld County
Author(s):  Steven Mlodinow, Nathan Pieplow
County Seat: Greeley
Size: 3,990 square miles
Low Elevation: 4,296 ft. - Pawnee Creek on the Logan border
High Elevation: 6,380 ft. - Bison Butte
Best Birds: Brant (1993), American Black Duck (2002, 2015), Yellow-billed Loon (2006), Brown Pelican (1991), Fulvous Whistling-Duck (1990), Roseate Spoonbill (1913), Ancient Murrelet (1965), Gyrfalcon (1994)
Checklist: Weld County Checklist
Introduction: If Colorado's third-largest county were to secede, it would become the third-smallest state. As if this were not distinction enough, Weld County is home to the Pawnee National Grasslands--a highlight destination of any birding trip to Colorado--and Crow Valley Campground, one of the state's best-known migrant traps. Its waterbird habitats run the gamut from tiny ponds to huge reservoirs and vast cattail marshes. Its checklist is long and distinguished. The only thing Weld County doesn't have, in fact, is mountains. But it commands fantastic views of them, and this is one of the factors accounting for its burgeoning human population.

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