BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (doesn't enumerate passerines)
Date: Nov. 18, 2007 Start time: 15:30 End Time: 17:50 Tide       rising    Observer     R. Brown
Wind Spd: 3 mph Wind Dir: NW   Cloud Cover:  60%     Air Temp    34˚F    
Species Raymond Pool Shearness Pool Bear Swamp Pool Finis Pool Saltmarsh Big Woods Pond Field 3 soy Field 23 wheat Field 12 soy Field 9 corn Fld 13 clover Total Other Species Observed, Code to Species Abbreviations
D-C Cormorant                       0
Great Egret                       0 CODES COMMON NAMES
Snowy Egret                       0 ACFL Acadian flycatcher
Cattle Egret                       0 AMCR American crow
Great Blue Heron         1             1 AMGO American goldfinch
Little Blue Heron                       0 AMRO American robin
Green Heron                       0 AMPI American pipit
Black-cr Night-heron                       0 BASW barn swallow
Yellow-cr Night-heron                       0 BHCO brown-headed cowbird
Glossy Ibis                       0 BLGR blue grosbeak
Pied-billed Grebe                       0 BLJA blue jay
American Coot                       0 BOBO bobolink
Clapper Rail                       0 BRTH brown thrasher
Canada Goose 949 202     163             1314 CACH Carolina chickadee
Snow Goose         2700           2700 CARW Carolina wren
Tundra Swan                       0 CLRA clapper rail
Mute Swan                       0 COGR common grackle
Black Duck         57             57 COYE common yellowthroat
Mallard 68 30 58 7 21             184 DOWO downy woodpecker
Green-winged Teal 19 185 374                 578 EABL eastern bluebird
Blue-winged Teal                       0 EAKI eastern kingbird
Northern Shoveler                       0 EAME eastern meadowlark
Northern Pintail 645 955 233                 1833 EATI eastern titmouse
Gadwall   3                   3 EATO eastern towhee
American Wigeon   3                   3 ESOW eastern screech owl
Ring-necked Duck                       0 EUST European starling
Bufflehead                       0 EWPE eastern wood-pewee
HYBRID black/mall                       0 FICR fish crow
Wood Duck       2               2 GCFL great crested flycatcher
Ruddy Duck   1     4             5 GRCA gray catbird
Hooded Merg.                       0 HOLA horned lark
Common Merg.                       0 HOWR house wren
Black-necked Stilt                       0 INBU indigo bunting
American Avocet   43                   43 MAWR marsh wren
Yellowlegs, Greater     13                 13 MODO mourning dove
Yellowlegs, Lesser                       0 NOCA northern cardinal
Semipalm. Sandpiper                       0 NOFL northern flicker
Western Sandpiper                       0 NOMO northern mockingbird
Least Sandpiper                       0 OROR orchard oriole
Peeps unidentified     13                 13 PROW prothonotary warbler
Pectoral Sandpiper                       0 PUMA purple martin
Spotted Sandpiper                       0 RBWO red-bellied woodpecker
Dowitcher sp.                       0 REVI red-eyed vireo
Stilt Sandpiper                       0 RNPH ring-necked pheasant
Dunlin     53                 53 RODO rock dove
Semipalm. Plover                       0 RWBL red-winged blackbird
Black-bellied Plover                       0 SCTA scarlet tanager
Willet                       0 SAVS savanna sparrow
Ring-billed Gull         10             10 SESP seaside sparrow
Laughing Gull         10             10 SOSP song sparrow
Gr. Black-backed Gull                       0 SWSP swamp sparrow
Herring Gull   1                   1 TRSW tree swallow
Forster's Tern                       0 TUVU turkey vulture
Caspian Tern                       0 WIFL willow flycatcher
Bald Eagle ad 2 im                       0 WOTH wood thrush
Red-tailed Hawk                       0 WTSP white-throated sparrow
Merlin                       0 YBCH yellow-breasted chat
Sharp-shinned Hawk                       0 YBCU yellow-billed cuckoo
Northern Harrier 1 1     3             5 YEWA yellow warbler
Belted Kingfisher                       0
Other Spp. Observed (species key on reverse): NOT A COMPLETE COUNT OF WATERFOWL ON REFUGE--MANY CONCEALED IN MARSH.  TUVU, ESOW, RBWO, DOWO, EUST, EABL, AMPI, EAME, NOMO, EATO, RODO, MODO, BLJA, CACH, SOSP, SAVS, SWSP, WTSP Total Birds=
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