Ouray National Wildlife Refuge Bird Survey

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Subject: Ouray National Wildlife Refuge Bird Survey
From: Diane_Penttila at fws dot gov
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:43:11 -0600
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Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
10/7/04

What? I can't hear you, the elk are bugling too loud. What we don't have for birds this year, we are making up for with elk, deer and pronghorns. The following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese 622
Mallard 156
Gadwall 29
Northern shoveler 2
Green-winged teal 778
Teal 5
Pintail 11
Wigeon 4
Lesser scaup 1
American coot 274
Pied-billed grebe 8
American pelican 2
Great blue heron 6
Sandhill crane 49
American bittern 1
American avocet 1
Killdeer 3
Lesser yellowlegs 13
Greater yellowlegs 1
Dowitcher 46
Pectoral sandpiper 7
Ring-billed gull 1
Northern harrier 1
Red -tail hawk 1 (dark phase)

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

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