Cogswell 1948 Journal Oct. 31 (cont) To go out as we arrived. Most significant, perhaps, was the absence of large nos. of larger shorebirds, whereas red-backed sandpipers were up tremendously from a few weeks ago. Complete list of species and estimated numbers seen is attached; entries made under species accounts of those marked with *: Note: # = numbers seen, but not counted or estimated. AUDUBON DAILY FIELD CARD OF BIRDS Occurring in the PACIFIC STATES (California, Oregon and Washington) Observer H.L. Cogswell Locality Column A: - San Leandro Bay from Doolittle Column B: - N.W. end of Bay Farm Island. Date... Oct. 31, 1948 Time.. Weather.... Wind... Subspecies, with the exception of a few forms, easily recog- nizable in the field, are omitted. Put a more detailed account of today's observations in a sep- arate notebook. Maybe you have seen something new! A B No. Loon, Common Pacific Red-throated Grebe, Holboell's Horned Eared Western Pied-billed Albatross, Black-f. Short-tailed Shearwater, Sl.-bill. Sooty Black-vented Pink-footed Fulmar, Pacific Petrel, Fork-tailed Beal's Black Ashy Socorro Pelican, White California Brown Cormorant, Parallon Brandt's Baird's Man-o'-war-bird Heron, Great Blue Egret, American 4 A B No. Egret, Brewster's Heron, Anth. Green Black-cr. Night Bittern, American Least Ibis, Wood Wh.-faced Glossy Swan, Whistling Goose, Canada Hutchins's Cackling Brant, Black Goose, Emperor White-fronted Snow Ross's Tree-duck, Fulvous Mallard Gadwall Widgeon, European Baldpate Pintail * Teal, Green-winged Blue-winged Cinnamon Shoveller Duck, Wood Redhead A B No. Duck, Ring-necked Canvas-back Duck, Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Golden-eye, American Barrow's Bufflehead Old-squaw Duck, Harlequin Scoter, White-winged Surf American Duck, Ruddy Merganser, Hooded American Red-breasted Vulture, Turkey Condor, California Kite, White-tailed Goshawk Hawk, Sharp-shinned Cooper's Red-tailed Red-bellied Swainson's Am. Rough-leg. Fer. Rough-leg. Harris's Eagle, Golden Bald Hawk, Marsh Osprey Falcon, Prairie Hawk, Duck Pigeon Sparrow Grouse, Sooty Franklin's Ruffed Ptarmigan, Wh.-tailed Grouse, Sharp-tailed Sage Hen Partridge, Eur. Bob-white Quail, California Gambel's Mountain Pheasant, Ring-n. Crane, Little Brown Sandhill Rail, Cal. Clapper * Virginia Sora Yellow Farallon Gallinule, Florida Coot Oyster-catcher, Black Plover, Snowy Semipalmated 1* 30 10 5 1 I A B No. Plover, Mountain Killdeer Golden Black-bellied Surf-bird Turnstone, Ruddy (heard) Black Snipe, Wilson's * p 2? Curlow, Long-billed Hudsonian Sandpiper, Spotted Solitary Tattler, Wandering Willet Yellow-legs, Greater Lesser Knot Sandpiper, Aleutian Pectoral Baird's Least Red-backed * Dowitcher, Long-Bill. Sandpiper, Western Godwit, Marbled Sanderling Avocet Stilt, Black-necked Phalarope, Red Wilson's Northern Jaeger, Pomarine Parasitic Long-tailed Gull, Glaucous Glaucus-winged Western Herring California Ring-billed Short-billed Laughing Bonaparte's Kittiwake, Pac. Gull, Sabine's Tern, Gull-billed Forster's Common Arctic Brown's Royal Elegant Caspian Black Murre, California Guillemot, Pigeon Murrelet, Marbled Xantus's Craveri's Ancient 30 10 10 10 4d. 2 2 15 200 3 9 300 # 4000 # 2000 # 10 10 5 50 100* 80 20 10 15 23+ # # # # # 1+ I 10 # 3