[Birdnet] Ouray National Wildlife Refuge General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
6/22/06

First of several duck broods and a western grebe brood seen yesterday.  The
following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese    543
Mallard   234
Gadwall   192
American wigeon   3
Green-winged teal   67
Cinnamon teal   179
Blue-winged teal   10
Northern shoveler   6
Wood duck   2
Redhead   47
Ruddy duck   50
American coot   516
Great blue heron   87
Black-crowned night heron   7
Snowy egret   5
Cattle egret   3
White-faced ibis   15
Double-crested cormorant   163
American white pelican   31
Sandhill crane   5
American bittern   1
Pied-billed grebe   71
Western grebe  45
Clark's grebe   5
Eared grebe   55
American avocet   15
Black-necked stilt   25
Wilson's phalarope   54
Killdeer   20
Spotted sandpiper   4
Lesser yellowlegs   2
Long-billed curlew   7
Red-tailed hawk   1
Great-horned owl   1
American kestrel   1
Turkey vulture   3
Forster's tern   7
Black tern   3
Caspian tern   1
Ring-billed gull   2

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