Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Northeast Region
BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (doesn't enumerate passerines)
Date: Dec 20, 2007 Start time: 7:30 End Time: 12:20 Tide: high/falling Observer: S. Guiteras
  Wind Spd: 10 mph Wind Dir: W %Cloud Cover: 10 Air Temp: 37˚F

Species Raymond Pool Shearness Pool Bear Swamp Pool Finis Pool Saltmarsh Big Woods Pond Field 2 Field 23 wheat Field 12 soy Field 9 corn Fld 13 clover Total
D-C Cormorant                       0
Great Egret       1               1
Snowy Egret                       0
Cattle Egret                       0
Great Blue Heron                       0
Little Blue Heron                       0
Green Heron                       0
Black-cr Night-heron                       0
Yellow-cr Night-heron                       0
Glossy Ibis                       0
Pied-billed Grebe                       0
American Coot                       0
Clapper Rail                       0
Canada Goose 8100 1312 719   81   190 8   270   10680
Snow Goose 86 1 2400   3600        
 
  6087
Tundra Swan   47                   47
Mute Swan                       0
Black Duck 3 43 7   5             58
Mallard 147 1463 106 4               1720
Green-winged Teal 7 22                   29
Blue-winged Teal                       0
Northern Shoveler         27             27
Northern Pintail 9 4343 2                 4354
Gadwall     3                 3
American Wigeon                       0
Ring-necked Duck                       0
Bufflehead         8             8
HYBRID black/mall                       0
Wood Duck                       0
Ruddy Duck                       0
Hooded Merg.                       0
LESSER SCAUP                       0
Black-necked Stilt                       0
American Avocet         5             5
Yellowlegs, Greater                       0
Yellowlegs, Lesser                       0
Semipalm. Sandpiper                       0
Western Sandpiper                       0
Least Sandpiper                       0
Peeps unidentified                       0
Pectoral Sandpiper                       0
Spotted Sandpiper                       0
Dowitcher sp.                       0
Stilt Sandpiper                       0
Dunlin         30             30
Semipalm. Plover                       0
Black-bellied Plover                       0
MARBLED GODWIT                       0
Ring-billed Gull         46             46
Laughing Gull                       0
Gr. Black-backed Gull                       0
Herring Gull                       0
Forster's Tern                       0
Caspian Tern                       0
Bald Eagle ad 2 im                       0
Red-tailed Hawk                       0
Merlin                       0
Sharp-shinned Hawk                       0
Northern Harrier         3             3
Belted Kingfisher                       0
Total Birds =  23098

Other Species Observed, Code to Species Abbreviations

CODES COMMON NAMES
ACFL Acadian flycatcher
AMCR American crow
AMGO American goldfinch
AMRO American robin
AMPI American pipit
BASW barn swallow
BHCO brown-headed cowbird
BLGR blue grosbeak
BLJA blue jay
BOBO bobolink
BRTH brown thrasher
CACH Carolina chickadee
CARW Carolina wren
CLRA clapper rail
COGR common grackle
COYE common yellowthroat
DOWO downy woodpecker
EABL eastern bluebird
EAKI eastern kingbird
EAME eastern meadowlark
EATI eastern titmouse
EATO eastern towhee
ESOW eastern screech owl
EUST European starling
EWPE eastern wood-pewee
FICR fish crow
GCFL great crested flycatcher
GRCA gray catbird
HOLA horned lark
HOWR house wren
INBU indigo bunting
MAWR marsh wren
MODO mourning dove
NOCA northern cardinal
NOFL northern flicker
NOMO northern mockingbird
OROR orchard oriole
PROW prothonotary warbler
PUMA purple martin
RBWO red-bellied woodpecker
REVI red-eyed vireo
RNPH ring-necked pheasant
RODO rock dove
RWBL red-winged blackbird
SCTA scarlet tanager
SAVS savanna sparrow
SESP seaside sparrow
SOSP song sparrow
SWSP swamp sparrow
TRSW tree swallow
TUVU turkey vulture
WIFL willow flycatcher
WOTH wood thrush
WTSP white-throated sparrow
YBCH yellow-breasted chat
YBCU yellow-billed cuckoo
YEWA yellow warbler

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

Last updated: October 28, 2008