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Joe Soehnel & Roger Eriksson

9/2/2015

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Canada Goose  215                                             Shiawassee NWR IWMMP, SA
Trumpeter Swan  4                                                 (Restricted Access)
Wood Duck  355     
American Wigeon  2
American Black Duck  7
Mallard  1861
Blue-winged Teal  300
Northern Shoveler  9
Northern Pintail  8
Pied-billed Grebe  95
Double-crested Cormorant  53
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  53
Great Egret  466     
Green Heron  5
Black-crowned Night-Heron  38    
Northern Harrier  4
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  4
Virginia Rail  21 
Sora  79     
This is a refuge-wide IWMMP total for this species. I have a systematic method of using a tape playback in roughly fifty meter increments and counting only responding SORA that are straight out from me or just slightly ahead of me and never behind me. It's been my observation that rails respond that are within fifty meters out from the dikes on which I drive. I never hear them respond further out than that nor much farther to my right or left of twenty-five meters. My method of tape playback includes one VIRA grunt (pause to listen), one SORA whinny (pause to listen) and then loudly clapping (pause to listen). (I accidentally discovered clapping to elicit rail response as I clapped a few weeks ago to flush BCNH & rails readily responded.)  I'll then wait for several minutes and, if hearing none, I slam the truck door shut (sometimes they respond to that) and then start the vehicle and listen carefully as they sometimes respond to the engine starting. I move forward roughly fifty meters and repeat the process in cattail rich wetlands. The following individuals were heard in the following sections: Pool 2 (33); River Unit (16); North Marsh (8); Grefe Pond (9); Pool1A (11), and the remaining two coming from other sections of the refuge.


Common Gallinule  45 
American Coot  38
Sandhill Crane  115
Semipalmated Plover  11
Killdeer  11
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  19
Lesser Yellowlegs  85
HUDSONIAN GODWIT  1
Stilt Sandpiper  16
Least Sandpiper  20
Pectoral Sandpiper  21
Semipalmated Sandpiper  3
Short-billed Dowitcher  8
Wilson's Snipe  8
Caspian Tern  13
Northern Flicker  19 
Merlin  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  4
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  3
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Warbling Vireo  6
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Marsh Wren  6
Savannah Sparrow  6
Indigo Bunting  2     
Bobolink  519     
This was a refuge-wide count of continuing large concentration of migrating BOBO.  One flock alone was conservatively estimated by Roger and myself to be 400.  Had we made a concerted effort to just count BOBO, the number would have been far greater as there was a continual vocalization throughout the day.

Common Grackle  2
American Goldfinch  55
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    County Abbreviation Key:   
    • AR = Arenac
    • BA = Bay
    • HU = Huron
    • IO = Iosco
    • MI = Midland
    • SA = Saginaw
    • TU = Tuscola
    • SBA = Saginaw Bay Area

    Other Abbreviations:  
    • ​SRA = State Recreation Area; 
    • SWA = State Wildlife Area;
    • SGA = State Game Area; 
    • SF = State Forest;
    • NWR = National Wildlife Refuge;
    • IWMMP = Integrated Waterbird Management Monitoring Program; 
    • CDF = Containment Disposal Facility (Dredge Island).

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