Ouray National Wildlife Refuge Bird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws dot gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
4/7/04

We were able to flood our shallow impoundments
off the Auto Tour Route and there is water remaining in Leota Bottom and
Johnson Bottom from last year, but we are worried that we will not get
sufficient spring flooding to flood Sheppard Bottom and recharge the other
areas.  The following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese        
         41
Mallard        
               
 95
Gadwall        
        248
Northern shoveler      
  179 
American wigeon      
    22
Northern pintail      
           201
Green-winged teal      
   706
Cinnamon teal        
           80
Blue-winged teal      
       1
Common merganser      
     25
Bufflehead        
             6
Ring-necked duck      
   138
Scaup        
               
   79
Redhead        
             94
Ruddy duck        
           13
American coot        
         854
Pied-billed grebe      
     11
Western grebe        
             4
Clark's grebe        
             2
Great blue heron      
     91
D.C. cormorant      
           118
American white pelican    
       18
Sandhill crane      
               1
Killdeer        
               
     8
American Avocet      
     16
Black-necked stilt      
       6
Northern harrier      
               4

American kestrel      
       4
Red-tailed hawk      
       3
Great horned owl      
       1
Ring-billed gull      
             38
Bonaparte's gull      
       4


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