[Birdnet] Ouray National Wildlife Refuge General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
5/8/06

The first goose broods were seen on May 1.  New spring arrivals include
red-necked phalaropes, a black-bellied plover, Forster's terns, western
kingbirds, barn swallows, tree swallows and cliff swallows.  The following
birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese   122
Mallard   108
Gadwall   695
Northern pintail   19
American wigeon   10
Green-winged teal   178
Cinnamon teal   105
Blue-winged teal   12
Northern shoveler   48
Ring-necked duck   17
Redhead   70
Ruddy duck   24
Scaup   7
Bufflehead   4
American coot   947
Great blue heron   28
Black-crowned night heron   12
Snowy egret   9
White-faced ibis   102
Double-crested cormorant   49
American white pelican   198
Sandhill crane   6
American bittern   1
Pied-billed grebe   13
Western grebe  51
Clark's grebe   10
Eared grebe   35
American avocet   82
Black-necked stilt   41
Black-bellied plover   1
Western sandpiper   10
Dowitcher spp.   325
Marbled godwit   13
Willet   1
Red-necked phalarope   6
Wilson's phalarope   89
Killdeer   11
Northern harrier   2
Red-tailed hawk   2
Turkey vulture   1
Forster's tern   5

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