Ouray National Wildlife Refuge General Waterbird Survey

[Diane_Penttila at fws dot gov]

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
General Waterbird Survey
8/23/05

If nothing else, the grebes really liked this year's water levels.  Over 50
western grebe young along the survey route.  But only one unit with
shorebirds??  The following birds were seen within the survey route:

Canada geese   48
Mallard   272
Gadwall   286
American wigeon   16
Northern shoveler   10
Cinnamon teal   227
Green-winged teal   32
Wood duck   2
Redhead   18
Ruddy duck   16
Ringneck   1
Scaup   3
Coots    1,505
Great blue heron   93
Double-crested cormorants   193
American white pelicans   78
Black-crowned night heron   7
White-faced ibis   26
Snowy egret   9
Pied-billed grebes   46
Western grebe   180
Clark's grebe   9
Eared grebe   14
Killdeer    7
Black-necked stilts   9
Spotted sandpiper    3
Western sandpiper   3
Least sandpiper   3
Lesser yellowlegs   7
Dowitcher spp.   144
Common snipe   3
Forster's tern   1
Ring-billed gull   19
Red-tailed hawk   2
American kestrel   6
Bald eagle (adult)   1
Turkey vulture   18


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

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