BOMBAY HOOK NWR WEEKLY WILDLIFE DRIVE CENSUS (doesn't enumerate passerines)
Date: Dec 28, 2007 Start time: 10:00 End Time: 13:30 Tide       high/falling   Observer     S. Guiteras
Wind Spd: 10 mph Wind Dir: E Cloud Cover:  10%     Air Temp    46˚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   1                   1 CODES COMMON NAMES
Snowy Egret                       0 ACFL Acadian flycatcher
Cattle Egret                       0 AMCR American crow
Great Blue Heron   4                   4 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   11                   11 BOBO bobolink
Clapper Rail                       0 BRTH brown thrasher
Canada Goose 263 1501 2201   21             3986 CACH Carolina chickadee
Snow Goose                     0 CARW Carolina wren
Tundra Swan 18 100 1                 119 CLRA clapper rail
Mute Swan                       0 COGR common grackle
Black Duck 2 20 6   96             124 COYE common yellowthroat
Mallard 46 313 120 13 5             497 DOWO downy woodpecker
Green-winged Teal   964 51                 1015 EABL eastern bluebird
Blue-winged Teal                       0 EAKI eastern kingbird
Northern Shoveler   7     19             26 EAME eastern meadowlark
Northern Pintail 388 4578 718                 5684 EATI eastern titmouse
Gadwall                       0 EATO eastern towhee
American Wigeon 2   7                 9 ESOW eastern screech owl
Ring-necked Duck                       0 EUST European starling
Bufflehead         8             8 EWPE eastern wood-pewee
HYBRID black/mall   1 1                 2 FICR fish crow
Wood Duck                       0 GCFL great crested flycatcher
Ruddy Duck                       0 GRCA gray catbird
Hooded Merg.                       0 HOLA horned lark
LESSER SCAUP                       0 HOWR house wren
Black-necked Stilt                       0 INBU indigo bunting
American Avocet 7                     7 MAWR marsh wren
Yellowlegs, Greater                       0 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                       0 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     50                 50 RODO rock dove
Semipalm. Plover                       0 RWBL red-winged blackbird
Black-bellied Plover                       0 SCTA scarlet tanager
MARBLED GODWIT 1                     1 SAVS savanna sparrow
Ring-billed Gull                       0 SESP seaside sparrow
Laughing Gull                       0 SOSP song sparrow
Gr. Black-backed Gull                       0 SWSP swamp sparrow
Herring Gull 4                     4 TRSW tree swallow
Forster's Tern                       0 TUVU turkey vulture
Caspian Tern                       0 WIFL willow flycatcher
Bald Eagle ad 2 im     1                 1 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 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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