[Birdnet] Ouray National Wildlife Refuge General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws.gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
5/18/07

Finally saw the last two species I had not yet seen for the spring, black
terns and eastern kingbirds.  Also saw the first duck brood of the year.
The river is rising and flooding more than we thought it would but it's not
going to be much.  The following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese    145
Mallard   316
Gadwall   844
Northern pintail   5
Green-winged teal   105
Cinnamon teal   75
Blue-winged teal   7
Northern shoveler   41
American wigeon   6
Wood duck   10
Redhead   89
Ruddy duck   29
Lesser scaup   1
American coot   510
Great blue heron   65
Cattle egret   6
Snowy egret   10
Great egret   1
Black-crowned night heron    11
White-faced ibis   25
Double-crested cormorant   88
American white pelican   204
Sandhill crane   2
American bittern   3
Killdeer   14
American avocet   40
Black-necked stilt   50
Spotted sandpiper   2
Willet   3
Dowitchers spp.   1
Wilson's phalarope   79
Red-necked phalarope   25
Pied-billed grebe   13
Eared grebe   11
Western grebe   46
Clark's grebe    6
Ring-billed gull    6
Franklin's gull   22
Forster's tern   20
Black tern    4
Red-tailed hawk   4
Northern harrier   1
American kestrel    4
Turkey vulture   3



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