[Birdnet] Ouray NWR General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
7/2/07

It's hot and really drying up - will we have water by the peak fall
migration of shorebirds? The following birds were seen within the survey
route:

Canada geese    631
Mallard   333
Gadwall   160
Northern pintail   4
Green-winged teal   11
Cinnamon teal   201
Blue-winged teal   13
Northern shoveler   2
American wigeon   2
Wood duck   2
Redhead   19
Ruddy duck   19
American coot   128
Great blue heron   77
Sandhill crane   2
Snowy egret   27
Black-crowned night heron    13
White-faced ibis   91
Double-crested cormorant   55
American white pelican   132
American bittern   5
Virginia rail   13
Sora   1
Long-billed curlew   9
Marbled godwit   1
Killdeer   73
American avocet   10
Black-necked stilt   7
Spotted sandpiper   6
Western sandpiper   3
Lesser yellowlegs   3
Wilson's phalarope   9
Pied-billed grebe   18
Western grebe   26
Clark's grebe    1
Ring-billed gull    22
Franklin's gull   4
Forster's tern   4
Black tern    5
Cooper's hawk   1
Red-tailed hawk   3
American kestrel    4



Diane Penttila
Ouray NWR
Randlett, UT
(435)545-2522 x 12
diane_penttila at fws.gov