[Birdnet] Help with Ouray National Wildlife Refuge General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
6/6/06

Sandpipers are a frustrating group for me - specifically western sandpipers
versus semipalmated sandpipers.  If anyone confident in their sandpipers
would be willing to check mine out I would be much appreciated.  But you
have to come within the next few days as we are putting water into the unit
they are currently in and I think we will end up pushing them out.  But
right now they are easy to find.  Take the auto tour route, third shallow
pond on the right before Sheppard Bottom.  My camera is not powerful enough
to take a decent picture either.  Western are suppose to have the rufous
coloring on the head and sides and a bill so long it droops a bit at the
end.  I'm not seeing that.   But the entire day was redeemed by 20
long-billed dowitchers all in a group.  The following birds were seen
within the survey route:

Canada geese    634
Mallard   178
Gadwall   198
Northern pintail   6
American wigeon   10
Green-winged teal   98
Cinnamon teal   55
Blue-winged teal   10
Northern shoveler   14
Wood duck   1
Canvasback   1
Ring-necked duck   1
Redhead   69
Ruddy duck   58
Scaup   5
American coot   355
Great blue heron   20
Black-crowned night heron   2
Snowy egret   7
Cattle egret   3
Great egret   1
White-faced ibis   67
Double-crested cormorant   101
American white pelican   7
Sandhill crane   8
American bittern   3
Pied-billed grebe   52
Western grebe  54
Clark's grebe   4
Eared grebe   37
American avocet   31
Black-necked stilt   25
sandpiper   10
Willet   2
Black-bellied plover   1
Wilson's phalarope   3
Killdeer   33
Spotted sandpiper   9
Long-billed curlew   20
Marbled godwit   1
Red-tailed hawk   1
Turkey vulture   7
Forster's tern   5
Black tern   2
Ring-billed gull   2

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