[Tweeters] 4/23 GH Shorebird Survey

[jimullrich]

Hello Tweeters:
Great Shorebird Survey info from our Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival Exec Director Glynnis Nakai, 4/23 data. Join us this week at our Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival 4/23-30.
www.shorebirdfestival.com
& YouTube Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival
Yours For the Birds n’ the Bees
Jim

>  GH Shorebird Survey 4/23/21 (08:04-11:20) Birds are on the move! Total estimate of all shorebirds ~23,000! Tide was ~0.5 ft lower than predicted (8.9 ft). Peregrine Falcon was observed hunting shorebirds.

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> Black-bellied Plover- 200

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> Semipalmated Plover- 335

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> Dunlin- 2340

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> Western Sandpiper- 1375

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> Least Sandpiper- 605

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> Dowitcher spp.- 70

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> Yellowleg spp.- 3

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> Whimbrel- 7

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> Marbled Godwit- 9

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> Unknown Shorebirds (mostly Dunlin and Western Sandpiper)- 17850

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> Glynnis Nakai

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> Project Leader, Nisqually NWR Complex

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> 100 Brown Farm Road, Olympia, WA 98516

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> 360.753.9467

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> www.fws.gov/refuges/billy_frank_jr_nisqually www.fws.gov/refuges/grays_harbor 

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