and of course, more relevant is the eBird range map for Utah…….

From: “Larry Arnold”
To: “IBLE”
Cc: “Larry Arnold”
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 12:24:39 PM
Subject: more on PUMA…..

IBRC and IBLE,

attaching a few pages from the first Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas (Kingery, ed., 1998), and from Colorado Birds (Andrews and Righter, 1992)
for discussion of status, distribution, habitat, elevation, breeding phenology and breeding evidence (far western CO)

more details can be found in the BNA species account –
Brown, C. R. and S. Tarof (2013). Purple Martin ( Progne subis ), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. [ https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.287 | https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.287 ]

what an awesome place for them at Lake Cleveland… =)

Larry

Steve, I think you and I were in agreement? that these inland higher elevation PUMA are like a different species than those breeding at gulf coast “PUMA hotels” ??