[Birdnet] Ouray National Wildlife Refuge General Bird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
10/12/06

What do you get when you receive an inch and a half of rain in 5 days?.....
Really bad roads.  It's still going to take a few days for our roads to dry
out on the west side.  But the weather fronts brought in a lot of geese and
sandhill cranes.  Add those to the elk bugling all morning - it's a noisy
place.  The following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese    2,055
Mallard   132
Gadwall   455
American wigeon   19
Green-winged teal   413
Blue-winged teal  5
Cinnamon teal   1
Northern pintail   348
Northern shoveler   150
Redhead   7
Ruddy duck   43
Scaup   2
Common merganser   3
American coot   640
Sandhill crane   209
Great blue heron   14
Black-crowned night heron   1
Snowy egret   4
American bittern   1
Double-crested cormorant   3
American white pelican   1
Pied-billed grebe   29
Western grebe  23
Clark's grebe   10
Eared grebe   8
American avocet   2
Pectoral sandpiper   1
Greater yellowlegs   22
Lesser yellowlegs   15
Dowitchers   193
Wilson's snipe   1
Cooper's hawk   1
Red-tailed hawk   3
American kestrel   1
Northern harrier   6

Ring-billed gull   4


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