BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (doesn't enumerate passerines) Other Species Observed, Code to Species Abbreviations
Date: May 8, 2007 Start time: 15:30 End Time: 18:12 Tide           Observer     R. Brown    
Wind Spd: 3 mph Wind Dir: NE Cloud Cover:  75%     Air Temp    71˚F     CODES COMMON NAMES
Species Raymond Pool Shearness Pool Bear Swamp Pool Finis Pool Saltmarsh DU Pond Big Woods Pond Pool A Field 2 Field 23   Total ACFL Acadian flycatcher
D-C Cormorant         1             1 AMCR American crow
Great Egret     9 1       3       13 AMGO American goldfinch
Snowy Egret     6         3       9 AMRE American redstart
Cattle Egret                       0 AMRO American robin
Great Blue Heron         4             4 BASW barn swallow
Little Blue Heron                       0 BHCO brown-headed cowbird
Green Heron                       0 BLGR blue grosbeak
Black-cr Night-heron     15                 15 BLJA blue jay
Yellow-cr Night-heron                       0 BLPW blackpoll warbler
Glossy Ibis               9       9 BRTH brown thrasher
Pied-billed Grebe                       0 BTGR boat-tailed grackle
American Coot       1               1 CACH Carolina chickadee
Clapper Rail         1             1 CARW Carolina wren
Canada Goose   20 16 1               37 CLRA clapper rail
Snow Goose                     0 COGR common grackle
Tundra Swan                       0 COYE common yellowthroat
Mute Swan                       0 DOWO downy woodpecker
Black Duck   1 2   2             5 EAKI eastern kingbird
Mallard   5 18                 23 EATI eastern titmouse
Green-winged Teal 20 1     2             23 EATO eastern towhee
Blue-winged Teal                       0 ESOW eastern screech owl
Northern Shoveler                       0 EUST European starling
Northern Pintail                       0 EWPE eastern wood-pewee
Gadwall                       0 FICR fish crow
American Wigeon                       0 FISP field sparrow
Ring-necked Duck                       0 GCFL great crested flycatcher
Greater Scaup                       0 GHOW great horned owl
HYBRID black/mall                       0 GRCA gray catbird
Wood Duck       6               6 HOFI house finch
Ruddy Duck                       0 HOLA horned lark
Hooded Merg.                       0 HOSP house sparrow
Common Merg.                       0 HOWR house wren
Black-necked Stilt 10   15                 25 INBU indigo bunting
American Avocet                       0 MAWR marsh wren
Yellowlegs, Greater 2 3 10         2       17 MODO mourning dove
Yellowlegs, Lesser 3 3           2       8 NOBO northern bobwhite
Semipalm. Sandpiper 3                     3 NOCA northern cardinal
Western Sandpiper 1 1                   2 NOFL northern flicker
Least Sandpiper 44   4                 48 NOMO northern mockingbird
Peeps unidentified 15 2230 181   616             3042 OROR orchard oriole
RUDDY TURNSTONE   1     2             3 OVEN ovenbird
Spotted Sandpiper     1                 1 PROW prothonotary warbler
Dowitcher sp. 222 140     43             405 PUMA purple martin
Willet     6   4             10 RBWO red-bellied woodpecker
Dunlin 68 563 51   85             767 REVI red-eyed vireo
Semipalm. Plover 28 77 46   9             160 RNPH ring-necked pheasant
Black-bellied Plover   786 200   11             997 RTHU ruby-throated hummingbird
Killdeer     2           1 1   4 RWBL red-winged blackbird
Ring-billed Gull         169             169 SCTA scarlet tanager
Laughing Gull   15     19             34 SESP seaside sparrow
Gr. Black-backed gull         1             1 SOSP song sparrow
Herring Gull                       0 SWSP swamp sparrow
Forster's Tern 6 4 9   22             41 TRSW tree swallow
Black Skimmer                       0 TUVU turkey vulture
Bald Eagle 2 ad 3 im   5                   5 WIFL willow flycatcher
Peregrine Falcon     1                 1 WOTH wood thrush
Red-tailed Hawk                       0 YBCH yellow-breasted chat
Osprey                       0 YBCU yellow-billed cuckoo
Northern Harrier                       0 YEWA yellow warbler
Belted Kingfisher                       0 YRWA yellow-rumped warbler
Other Spp. Observed (species key on reverse): TRSW, PUMA, BLJA, RWBL, TUVU, EWPE, EATO, BLGR, INBU, HOWR, FICR, HOFI, NOFL, GCFL, OROR, EATI, REVI, RNPH, SESP, ESOW, BASW, CARW, AMGO, AMRO, WOTH, GHOW, COGR, SCTA, HOSP, EUST, RTHU, GRCA, NOCA, BHCO, RBWO, OVEN, YEWA, COYE, SWSP Total Birds=
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