Ouray National Wildlife Bird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws dot gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
7/27/04

What water we did have is drying up
fast in our wetland units.  Broods are getting pushed together.  Lots
of gadwall, pied-billed grebe, and coot broods, some just hatched.  Shorebirds
are just starting to move in.   The following birds were seen within
the survey route:

Canada geese        
       170
Mallard        
               140
Gadwall        
       240
Northern shoveler      
     1
American wigeon      
     3   
Northern pintail      
             1
Green-winged teal      
    25
Cinnamon teal        
       154
Wood duck        
            2
Ruddy duck        
         23
American coot        
       165
Pied-billed grebe      
   38
Western grebe        
           4
Clark's grebe        
           2      
            
Great blue heron      
   35 
Snowy egret        
         24
B-C night heron      
             6
D.C. cormorant      
           40
American white pelican    
   127
White-faced ibis      
    16
American bittern      
      2
Virginia rail        
             1
Killdeer        
               
   74
American Avocet      
     14
Black-necked stilt      
     36
Lesser yellowlegs      
       4
Least sandpiper      
     10
Spotted sandpiper      
       1
Wilson's phalarope      
       3
Dowitchers        
           53      
               
          
Ring-billed gull      
               7
Forster's tern      
             10
Turkey vulture      
               5
Northern harrier      
              2
American kestrel      
      2
Red-tailed hawk      
      2
Great horned owl      
     1


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