Bear River Refuge Bird Count

[Bridget_Olson at fws dot gov]

Bear River Bird Count
from 8/05/04

Inflows into the Refuge are currently not enough to sustain our two high
priority units much less all 26 units.  In other words the units are either
dry or drying!  The tour loop unit will likely dry up in the next week or
so.  The good news is that is the most Curlews I've ever seen.  Count from
last Friday:

Canada Goose            1379
Mallard                 1590
Northern Pintail        1917
GW Teal           1839
Cinnamon Teal           501
Northern Shoveler 1237
Gadwall           818
Unk. Dabbler            363
Canvasback        285
Redhead           255
Ruddy Duck        493
Pied-billed Grebe 37
Eared Grebe       408
Western Grebe           88
Clark's Grebe           73
AW Pelican        1337
DC Cormorant            396
Great Blue Heron  99
Great Egret       25
Snowy Egret       466
BC Night Heron          32
White-faced Ibis  11280
Snowy Plover            1
Killdeer                131
Black-necked Stilt      5552
American Avocet   4138
Willet                  18
Spotted Sandpiper 19
Solitary Sandpiper      2
Greater Yellowlegs      18
Lesser Yellowlegs 79
Long-billed Curlew      66
Marbled Godwit          4755
Semipalm. Sandpiper     1
Least Sandpiper   143
Western Sandpiper 1580
Peep              62
Baird's Sandpiper 40
Dowitcher spp.          305
Common Snipe            1
Wilson's Phalarope      1044
Franklin's Gull         3423
Ring-billed Gull        82
California Gull         1105
Caspian Tern            3
Forster's Tern          182
Sora              2
Coot              8960
Sandhill Crane          4
Turkey vulture          10
Northern Harrier        1
Peregrine Falcon  1

Bridget Olson
Wildlife Biologist
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
58 S. 950 W.
Brigham City, UT  84302
Phone: 435/723-5887 ext. 13
Fax: 435/723-8873



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