Hello MN bird friends. Thought you might be interested to hear what's at Bear River Refuge, Utah.
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Box Elder County Recent happenings: Colonial bird surveys in June yielded an estimated 9200 White-faced Ibis nests, 157 Snowy Egret nests, 68 Cattle Egret nests, 78 Black-crowned Night Heron nests, 1000 Franklin Gull nests and about 20 Great Blue Heron. Just about all of the young have now fledged from the nests accounting for large feeding flocks of each species being observed on the tour route. Other surveys estimated 62 Caspian Tern and 140 Forster's Tern nests. California Gulls and Double-crested Cormorants occupied interior Refuge islands where 1203 gull and 238 Cormorant nests were found. Notable sightings from the tour route include Stilt Sandpiper, Western and Clark's Grebe young, Semipalmated Plover, Red-necked Phalarope, and Solitary Sandpiper. I did see Pink Floyd last week in one of the interior Refuge units so he should show up in the tour loop sometime? 43% of the birds counted were observed from the tour loop. Bird Count 7/23/04 Canada Goose 1616 Mallard 1186 Northern Pintail 117 GW Teal 363 Cinnamon Teal 262 Gadwall 938 Wigeon 31 Canvasback 326 Redhead 713 Ruddy Duck 697 PB Grebe 11 Eared Grebe 186 Western Grebe 147 Clark's Grebe 136 A.W. Pelican 1233 DC Cormorant 482 GB Heron 134 Great Egret 4 Snowy Egret 617 Cattle Egret 7 BC Night Heron 28 White-faced Ibis 10,685 Killdeer 155 Black-necked Stilt 5738 Am. Avocet 4243 Willet 6 Spotted Sandpiper 28 Greater Yellowlegs 4 Lesser Yellowlegs 48 Long-billed Curlew 17 Marbled Godwit 2301 Western Sandpiper 832 Least Sandpiper 185 Peep 10 Baird's Sandpiper 117 Dowitcher spp. 208 Wilson's Phalarope 37 Franklin's Gull 2290 Ring-billed Gull 12 California Gull 3338 Caspian Tern 39 Forster's Tern 109 Sora 8 Coot 5595 Sandhill Crane 4 Turkey Vulture 3 Northern Harrier 3 Pink Flamingo 1 Bridget Olson Wildlife Biologist Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge 58 S. 950 W. Brigham City, UT 84302 Phone: 435/723-5887 ext. 13 Fax: 435/723-8873 _______________________________________________ "Utah Birds" web site: http://www.utahbirds.org Birdnet: To subscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To send a message, e-mail: [email protected] _________________________________________________
