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STILLWATER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, CHURCHILL CO., NEVADA
INDIAN LAKES SECTION
May 8, 1950 1:30pm to 6:00pm
Almost every lake checked. This practically a total count for section.
Western Grebe - 2
White Pelican - 5
Eared Grebe - 3
Blue Heron - 1
Snowy Egret - 3
Mallard - Just about always a male and female was seen together. Total of 12 pairs of this kind plus 3 males and 4 unidentified. Total mallards 31.
Gadwall - 87 in pairs. In small flocks or individual pairs.
Baldpate - 31
Pintail - 7 pairs plus 2 males and 3 ot ers. Total 19.
Green-winged Teal - 47
Cinnamon Teal - 28. All paired into small flocks of 4 to 6 or individualspairs
Shoveller - 2
Canvasback - 4
Scaup - 2 males and 2 females. Not together. On two seperate ponds.
Redhead - 30
Ruddy Duck - 117
Bufflehead - 5
Coot - 225
Turkey Vulture
Marsh Hawks
Killdeer - 15 Pluver
Semipalmated SANDPIPER - 6 scattered on edges of Big Cottonwood Lake.
Least Sandpiper - 25
Unidentified peeps - 50
Dowitcher - 400. Half of these on Big Cottonwood
Avocet - 58
Stilt - 9
Wilson Phalarope - 70
Black Tern - 10
Mourning Dove - 4
Magpie - 2
Raven - 1
Barn Swallows
Cliff Swallow - 2 at Cottonwood L.
Arkansas Kingbird - 2
Yellow-headed Blackbird -
Red-wings
Bullock Oriole - male at Little Cottonwood. First of season
Western Meadowlarks
Brewers Blackbirds
Chipping Sparrow - First time on area. 2 in greasewood.
Savannah Sparrow