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SHOREBIRD SURVEY--BAYSHORE, MUDFLATS, AND SALT MARSH BY BOAT
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| Date: May
29, 2008 |
Start: 06:45 |
End: 9:30 |
High Tide Mahon: 5:34 |
Observer: S. Guiteras |
| Air Temp 55 F |
Wind spd: 5 mph |
Wind Dir: W |
% Cloud Cover: 0% |
Operator, etc.:
A. Straughn |
| Species |
Boat
Dock to Mahon |
Kelly
Island Bayshore |
Kent
Island Bayshore |
Bombay
Hook Is. Bayshore |
Sluice
Ditch to Boat Dock |
Totals |
| D-C
Cormorant |
2 |
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|
2 |
| Great Egret |
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2 |
2 |
| Snowy Egret |
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|
|
|
|
0 |
| Great Blue
Heron |
2 |
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|
2 |
| Black-cr
Night-heron |
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|
|
|
|
0 |
| Glossy Ibis |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
| Canada Goose |
|
7 |
8 |
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|
15 |
| Snow Goose |
|
|
|
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|
0 |
| Black Duck |
2 |
88 |
8 |
32 |
5 |
135 |
| Mallard |
9 |
117 |
7 |
57 |
3 |
193 |
| Green-winged
Teal |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
| Gadwall |
|
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
| Ruddy Duck |
|
|
|
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|
0 |
| Wood Duck |
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|
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|
0 |
| Hooded Merg. |
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|
0 |
| Black-necked Stilt |
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|
0 |
| American
Avocet |
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|
4 |
4 |
| Yellowlegs,
Greater |
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|
0 |
| Yellowlegs,
Lesser |
|
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|
0 |
| Yellowlegs,
spp. |
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|
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|
0 |
| Semipalm.
Sandpiper |
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|
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|
0 |
| Western
Sandpiper |
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|
0 |
| Least
Sandpiper |
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|
0 |
| Peeps spp. |
116 |
2044 |
238 |
1050 |
678 |
4126 |
| Spotted
Sandpiper |
|
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|
0 |
| Stilt
Sandpiper |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
| Willet |
7 |
13 |
10 |
13 |
2 |
45 |
| Dunlin |
|
153 |
5 |
28 |
135 |
321 |
| Dowitcher,
short-billed |
|
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|
0 |
| Dowitcher
spp. |
2 |
|
9 |
8 |
|
19 |
| Red Knot |
|
4 |
|
3 |
|
7 |
| Ruddy
Turnstone |
50 |
627 |
61 |
21 |
5 |
764 |
| Semipalm.
Plover |
|
3 |
|
7 |
42 |
52 |
| Black-bellied
Plover |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
| Killdeer |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
| Ring-billed Gull |
2 |
|
|
55 |
4 |
61 |
| Laughing Gull |
2 |
5 |
5 |
17 |
5 |
34 |
| Gr.
Black-backed Gull |
|
15 |
1 |
100 |
|
116 |
| Herring Gull |
1 |
2 |
15 |
62 |
5 |
85 |
| Forster's
Tern |
1 |
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2 |
3 |
| Caspian Tern |
|
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|
1 |
1 |
| Black Skimmer |
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|
0 |
| Bald Eagle: 2 ad 4 im |
1 |
|
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|
1 |
| Osprey |
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|
0 |
| Peregrine
Falcon |
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|
0 |
| Northern
Harrier |
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|
0 |
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TOTAL SHOREBIRDS |
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5340 |
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TOTAL GULLS AND TERNS |
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300 |
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TOTAL HERONS, EGRETS,
IBIS |
4 |
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TOTAL WATERFOWL |
345 |
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TOTAL RAPTORS |
1 |
Other species observed, comments: clapper rail, barn swallow, marsh wren,
red-winged blackbird, song sparrow.
SESA was the only peep identified today.
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Last updated:
September 2, 2009
