Below is a list of Tricolored Blackbird reports from Crook County before
2000. They appear to have established a colony there around 1990. Tom
Crabtree and Craig Miller (among others) were roaming Crook County
recording birds by the early 80's so it seems unlikely that there would
have been a sizable number in the county before the late 80s or early
90s without them reporting on such a flock. The Prineville CBC did not
exist between 1973 and 1991. It did occur between 1966 and 1973 but
there were no records for Trikes.
X Prineville Crook 11/11/1984 Mike Robbins
30 Prineville Crook 10/21/1989 Tom Crabtree Craig Miller
1 Prineville CBC Crook 1/4/1991 Chuck Gates fide
30 Powell Butte Crook 2/3/1991 Tom Crabtree Lew Rems
1 Prineville Sewer Ponds Old Crook 3/16/1991 Tom Crabtree
fide
X Prineville east of Crook 3/22/1992 Lew Rems
6 Prineville CBC Crook 12/26/1993 Tom Crabtree fide
6 Prineville CBC Crook 1/2/1994 Tom Crabtree
3 Prineville CBC Crook 1/1/1995 Chuck Gates fide
3 Prineville CBC Crook 12/28/1995 Chuck Gates fide
3 Prineville CBC Crook 12/28/1995 NAS Website
100 Barnes Butte Res. Crook 5/5/1996 Judy Meredith Diane Kook
3 Prineville Sewer Ponds Old Crook 10/5/1996 Chuck Gates
2 Prineville CBC Crook 1/4/1997 NAS Website
50 Barnes Butte Res. Crook 3/28/1997 Lauren Sobkoviak
2 Prineville CBC Crook 12/27/1998 Chuck Gates fide
16 Prineville CBC Crook 12/27/1998 Chuck Gates fide
16 Prineville CBC Crook 12/27/1998 COAS Newsletter Vol. 30 #2
16 Prineville CBC Crook 12/27/1998 NAS Website
140 Crook County NAMC Crook 5/8/1999 Chuck Gates fide
100 Barnes Butte Res. Crook 5/16/1999 Chuck Gates
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for
sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
Chuck Gates
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Powell Butte,
Central Oregon
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