Waterbird Watch Census Form

Observer Information:

Name:    Site Name: 

Major habitat type: Gulf beach Sand flat Mud flat Algal flat Grassy marsh Mangroves Man-made

Number of people within or very near site at time of census:

Number of pets within or very near site at time of census:

Presence of:   Oil or tar balls? 
   none
   light
   heavy
   Seaweed? 
   none
   light
   heavy
   Trash? 
   heavy
   light
   none

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Census Information:

Date:

Time Began:     Time End:          Total Time: 

Temperature:     Cloud Cover:    Precipitation: 
   heavy
   light
   none

Wind speed: 
   strong
   moderate
   light
   calm
   Wind direction: 
   N
   NE
   E
   SE
   S
   SW
   W
   NW
   Tidal Amplitude: 
   Very high: site completely inundated
   high: site 75-99% inundated
   moderate: site 25-74% inundated
   low: site 1-24% inundated
   very low: site completely emergent

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BIRD COUNTS:

Please fill in the number of birds of each species you observed during your census in the lists that follow below. If you performed a single type of watch (e.g. Plover Watch) just fill in information associated with those species, and ignore the other entry areas.

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WADER WATCH (Herons, Egrets and other waders):

         Great Blue Heron:         Tricolored Heron:        Little Blue Heron:

              Green Heron:Black-crowned Night Heron:  Yellow-crnd Night Heron:

              Great Egret:            Reddish Egret:              Snowy Egret:

             Cattle Egret:        Roseate Spoonbill:               White Ibis:

         White-faced Ibis:

Other wader species: : 

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PLOVER WATCH (plovers and other shorebirds):

    Black-bellied Plover:  American Golden Plover:            Snowy Plover:

         Wilson's Plover:     Semipalmated Plover:           Piping Plover:

         Mountain Plover:                Killdeer:   Unidentifiable Plover:

  American Oystercatcher:      Black-necked Stilt:         American Avocet:

      Greater Yellowlegs:       Lesser Yellowlegs:      Solitary Sandpiper:

                  Willet:       Spotted Sandpiper:        Upland Sandpiper:

      Long-billed Curlew:                Whimbrel:          Marbled Godwit:

         Ruddy Turnstone:                Red Knot:              Sanderling:

  Semipalmated Sandpiper:       Western Sandpiper:         Least Sandpiper:

  White-rumped Sandpiper:       Baird's Sandpiper:      Pectoral Sandpiper:

                  Dunlin:         Stilt Sandpiper: Buff-breasted Sandpiper:

  Peep (small sandpiper):  Short-billed Dowitcher:   Long-billed Dowitcher:

          Dowitcher spp.:            Common Snipe:      Wilson's Phalarope:

Other shorebird species: : 

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SEABIRD WATCH (gulls, terns and other seabirds):

            Brown Pelican:   American White Pelican: Double-crested Cormorant:

      Neotropic Cormorant:            Laughing Gull:         Ring-billed Gull:

             Herring Gull:         Bonaparte's Gull:               Least Tern:

               Black Tern:           Forster's Tern:              Common Tern:

            Sandwich Tern:               Royal Tern:             Caspian Tern:

         Gull-billed Tern:            Black Skimmer:

Other seabird species: : 

Banded Birds? Yes No

If yes, enter band combinations: