[Birdnet] Ouray National Wildlife Refuge General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
8/23/06

Shorebirds are starting to move in.  We certainly have some good mudflats
developing.  The following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese    184
Mallard   415
Gadwall   710
American wigeon   13
Green-winged teal   85
Cinnamon teal   141
Blue-winged teal   10
Northern pintail   17
Northern shoveler   58
Wood duck   3
Ringneck   1
Redhead   32
Ruddy duck   13
American coot   1,087
Great blue heron   109
Black-crowned night heron   14
Great egret   1
Snowy egret   33
Cattle egret   2
White-faced ibis   45
Double-crested cormorant   126
American white pelican   467
Sora rail   3
Pied-billed grebe   92
Western grebe  132
Clark's grebe   15
Eared grebe   11
American avocet   21
Black-necked stilt   39
Killdeer   52
Spotted sandpiper   2
Western sandpiper   64
Lesser sandpiper   1
Greater yellowlegs   1
Lesser yellowlegs   115
Marbled godwit   1
Dowitchers   32
Wilson's snipe   2
Wilson's phalarope   1
Bald eagle   1
Red-tailed hawk   1
American kestrel   4
Osprey   1
Cooper's hawk   1
Turkey vulture   14
Forster's tern   3
Ring-billed gull   1


Diane Penttila
Ouray NWR
Randlett, UT
(435)545-2522 x 223
diane_penttila at fws.gov