Kuhni’s Wetland Study
January to November 1998
Compiled by Merrill Webb
The Kuhni’s Wetland (Provo Wetland) is a tract of land in south Provo, that was swapped for wetlands destroyed in the expansion of the Provo Airport. This study, coordinated by Merrill Webb, has been undertaken to determine the general quality of the wetlands by check the usage by birds. Here is a summary, listing the different species recorded in this study:
Location: South of the East Bay Golf Course in Provo, Utah
Total number of species seen: 112
List of Species:
| Grebes Podicipediformes Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Pelicans Pelicaniformes American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Herons & Egrets Ciconiiformes Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night Heron White-faced Ibis Waterfowl Anseriformes Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Common Goldeneye Barrow’s Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Hawks & Eagles Falconiformes Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin UW Grouse & Quail Galliformes Ring-necked Pheasant (I) California Quail (I) Cranes, Rails & Coots Gruiformes Virginia Rail Sora FCS American Coot Sandhill Crane |
Shorebirds & Gulls Charadriiformes Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Ring-billed Gull California Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Doves & Pigeons Columbiformes Mourning Dove Swifts & Hummingbirds Apodiformes Broad-tailed Hummingbird Kingfishers Coraciiformes Belted Kingfisher Woodpeckers Piciformes Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Perching Birds Passeriformes Flycatchers Tyrannidae Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher Western Kingbird Swallows Hirundinidae Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow N. Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Jays and Crows Corvidae Scrub Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Chickadees Paridae Black-capped Chickadee Wrens Troglodytidae Bewick’s Wren House Wren Marsh Wren |
Kinglets and Thrushes Muscicapidae Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin Shrikes Laniidae Northern Shrike Starling Sturnidae European Starling (I) Warblers, Sparrows, Tanagers, Blackbirds and Orioles Emberizidae Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia’s Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Northern Waterthrush MacGillivray’s Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson’s Warbler Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Brewer’s Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock’s Oriole Finches Fringillidae House Finch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch |