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(over much Indian Agency Lands to south)
Feb. 18, 1951, Parker-Poston Camp No. 2, Yuma Co. Ariz. About 40 road miles covered. 0740-1310 MST. Mostly old cottonwood, willow and mesquite forests that have been cleared and put to agriculture - pasture, alfalfa, grain, cotton, etc. Little native vegetation left.
Blue Heron - 6
American Egret - 4
Gadwall - 3 flew over us near Poston Road
Green-winged Teal - just 1 pair in drainage ditch.
Shoveller - 1F
American Golden-eye - 1M near Parker, on Colo. R.
Vulture - 12
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper Hawk - 3
Red-tailed Hawk
Marsh Hawk - 8
Sparrow Hawk - 5
Gambel Quail - 55
Coot - 5
Killdeer - 12
Mourning Dove - 91
Roadrunner - 21
Red-shafted Flicker - 25
Gila Woodpecker - 17
Lewis Woodpecker - 3
Ladder-backed Woodpecker - 2
Ash-throated Flycatcher - 3 silent - in dense mesquite forest.
Black Phoebe - 7
Say's Phoebe - 20
Vermillion Flycatcher - 3M & 1F
Tree Swallow - 6
LONG-CRESTED Stellar Jay - 3 C. A. DIADEMATA
Raven - 7
House Wren - 1
Bewick Wren - 1
Verdin - 4
Western Mockingbird - 9
Crissal Thrasher - 5
Sage Thrasher - 2
Robin - 50
Western Bluebird - 9
Mountain Bluebird - 20
Townsend Solitaire - 1 in dense mesquite thicket in mesquite forest.
Plumbeous Gnatcatchers - several in mesquite forest. These without eye-rings.
The ones identified yesterday had distinct eye-rings.
Pipit - 1
Phainopepla - 24
White-rumped Shrike - 19
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
Audubon Warbler - 11
Tule Yellow-throat - 1M
English Sparrow - 50
Western Meadowlark - 40
Yellow-headed Blackbird - 2
Bicolour Redwings? 10
Sonora Redwings? - 1,000
Brewer Blackbird - 500
DWARF Cowbirds - 23
Blue Grosbeak - wintering male collected 1st thing this a.m. in fence row at edge of field where observed last evening. Gale mounted specimen and found it to be in good body condition, and the gizzard was filled with husked grain seeds.
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