Ouray National Wildlife Refuge Bird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws dot gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
5/4/04

REMINDER:  Our Open House is this
Saturday, 7:30 am - 1:00 pm.  Lots of fun things for the whole family.
 Lots of birds arriving, so many distractions on this survey it was
hard to keep focused.  So many distractions I listed them all at the
bottom.  Upland flowers are starting to bloom also.
 The following birds were seen
within the survey route:

Canada geese        
        55 (first goose brood seen April 27)
Mallard        
               
86
Gadwall        
       425
Northern shoveler      
  35 
American wigeon      
    3
Northern pintail      
          49
Green-winged teal      
  63
Cinnamon teal        
        71
Blue-winged teal      
    9
Common merganser      
  19
Bufflehead        
          3
Ring-necked duck      
  18
Scaup        
               
19
Redhead        
         46
Ruddy duck        
        40
American coot        
       549
Pied-billed grebe      
     8
Western grebe        
        56
Clark's grebe        
        17
Horned grebe        
          1
Eared grebe        
        13
Great blue heron      
  48  (including 4 colonies)
Great egret        
          1
Snowy egret        
          2
B-C night heron      
            4
D.C. cormorant      
         122
American white pelican    
   413
White-faced ibis      
   67
Killdeer        
               
14
American Avocet      
  64
Black-necked stilt      
  33
Marbled godwit      
          12
Lesser yellowlegs      
  33
Semi-palmated plover      
    3
Dowitchers spp.      
          27
Wilson's phalarope      
  49
Western sandpiper      
    9
Least sandpiper      
    8
Willet        
               
  4
Black-bellied plover      
    1 
American kestrel      
    5
Turkey vulture      
            1
Ring-billed gull      
          37
Bonaparte's gull      
    1
Forster's tern      
          47
Caspian tern        
          2

The distractions:  red-winged blackbird,
yellow-headed blackbird, western meadowlark, mourning dove, spotted towhee,
Bullock's Oriole, American robin, western kingbird, yellow-rumped warbler,
house wren, American goldfinch, northern flicker, black-billed magpie,
starling, ring-necked pheasant, lark sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, chipping
sparrow, Say's phoebe, northern rough-winged swallow, tree swallow, cliff
swallow (in a very active colony), mountain bluebird, Plumbeous vireo

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