Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank, Clatsop County, Oregon
July 27, 2001

wetland transect - 0930 to 1015

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Double-crested Cormorant 7
American Bittern 1 [1]
Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2 [2]
Turkey Vulture 2
Canada Goose 22
Mallard 5
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Virginia Rail 1
Western Sandpiper 1 [3]
Ring-billed Gull 100 [4]
Western Gull 3
Glaucous-winged Gull 2
Caspian Tern 4
Belted Kingfisher 1
Warbling Vireo 1
American Crow 15
Barn Swallow 41
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Bushtit 3
Bewick's Wren 1
Marsh Wren 3
Swainson's Thrush 4
American Robin 11
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 21
Yellow Warbler 1
Black-throated Gray Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Wilson's Warbler 4 [5]
Song Sparrow 4
Purple Finch 2
American Goldfinch 8

Footnotes:

[1] adult; seen twice
[2] 1 adult; 1 hatch-year
[3] heard only
[4] many hatch-year; probably from Miller Sands
[5] in one group

Total number of species seen: 34



--
Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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