Ouray National Wildlife Bird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws dot gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
8/10/04

We're pumping into one unit (which is
leaking into another unit) and have run water into the shallow ponds; trying
to maintain at least some water into the fall migration.  Starting
to see other critters that have been somewhat secretive all summer:  several
turkeys with broods, a nice buck, a doe with twins.   The following
birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese        
           6
Mallard        
               140
Gadwall        
       136
Northern shoveler      
     4 
Green-winged teal      
    20
Cinnamon teal        
          68
Blue-winged teal      
      7
Teal        
               
175
Redhead        
            5
Ruddy duck        
         17
American coot        
       232
Pied-billed grebe      
   10
Clark's grebe        
           2      
            
Great blue heron      
   22 
Snowy egret        
         31
Great egret        
           1
B-C night heron      
             6
D.C. cormorant      
           19
American white pelican    
   323
White-faced ibis      
    22
American bittern      
      1
Killdeer        
               
  68
American Avocet      
      4
Black-necked stilt      
    43
Lesser yellowlegs      
    47
Greater yellowlegs      
      1
Solitary sandpiper      
     1
Least sandpiper      
      1
Spotted sandpiper      
      6
Western sandpiper      
    21
Wilson's phalarope      
    14
Dowitchers        
          57        
               
        
Ring-billed gull      
               1
Forster's tern      
               7
Turkey vulture      
              18
American kestrel      
       4
Red-tailed hawk      
       1


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