Field notes, v667
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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