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RECENT NOTEWORTHY SIGHTINGS:

RESULTS OF WATERFOWL, SHOREBIRD AND RAPTOR SURVEY:

  Eared grebe 23 Green-winged teal   Cooper's hawk
  Pied-billed grebe 124 American wigeon 5 Red-tailed hawk
  Clark's grebe 2 Northern pintail   Swainson's hawk
  Western grebe 5 Northern shoveler 1 Rough-legged hawk
  American white pelican   Blue-winged teal   American kestrel
  Double-crested cormorant   Cinnamon teal   Prairie falcon
  American bittern   Canvasback   Virginia rail
  Black-crowned night-heron   Redhead   Sora
  Snowy egret 280 Ring-necked duck 153 American coot
6 Great egret   Lesser scaup   Sandhill crane
12 Great blue heron 93 Common goldeneye   Dowitcher spp.
  White-faced ibis 27 Bufflehead   Wilson's phalarope
27 Tundra swan 3 Common merganser   Osprey
56 Trumpeter swan 33 Hooded merganser   American avocet
  Greater white-fronted goose   Ruddy duck   Black-necked stilt
  Snow goose   Turkey vulture   Willet
1041 Canada goose 4 Northern harrier   Yellowlegs sp.
  Wood duck   Golden Eagle   Sandpiper spp.
948 Mallard 1 Bald eagle   Long-billed curlew
263 Gadwall   Sharp-shinned hawk   Dunlin

INCIDENTAL SPECIES OBSERVED DURING SURVEY:

  California quail 2 Northern flicker 0 Savannah sparrow
  Ring-nkd pheasant 0 Downy woodpecker 0 Song sparrow
0 Common snipe 0 Western kingbird 0 Wh-crwned sparrow
  Ring-billed gull 0 Northern shrike 0 Western meadowlark
0 California gull   Black-billed magpie   Yellow-hd blackbird
  Caspian tern   Common raven 0 Red-wg blackbird
  Forster's tern 0 Horned lark   Brewer's blackbird
0 Black tern 0 Tree swallow 0 Brown-hd cowbird
0 Morning dove 0 Barn swallow 0 House finch
0 Barn owl 0 Marsh wren 0 Lesser goldfinch
0 Short-eared owl 0 Mountain bluebird 0 Yellow rmpd warbler
0 Great horned owl 0 American robin   Killdeer
0 Common nighthawk 0 Sage thrasher 0  
0 Belted kingfisher 0 Western tanager 0  

 

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