Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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March 21, 1950, Gray Lodge Refuge, SW Butte Co. Calif. 1610-1705 PST
Pied-billed Grebe - 20
White Pelicans - 4
Blue Heron - 10
American Egrets - 40
Common Canada Goose - 300
Cackling Goose - 5
White-fronted Goose - 97
Lesser Snow Goose - 22
Mallard - 2500
Baloptes - 3000
Pintail - 450-500
Green-winged Teal - 1500
Cinnamon Teal - 300 pairs
Shovellers - 400
Bufflehead - 8-10 (1F seen)
Ruddy Duck - 50
Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk Swainson Hawk
Marsh Hawks - 4
Pheasants - dozens and dozens
Coots - 750-1000
Killdeer
Dowitchers - 65
Yellow-legs - 12
Avocets - 20 pairs
Mourning Doves
Red-shafted Flickers
Tree Swallows
Suisun Long-billed Marsh Wrens
Western Meadowlarks
California Bicolor Redwings - 1000's
Tricolor Redwings - 1000's
Yellow-headed Blackbirds - saw at least 100 full males as they came into roost
in mixed flocks with the other blackbird species in the tules.
Brewer Blackbirds
Green-backed Goldfinches
Gambel White-crowned Sparrows