Date: 2/25/25 8:16 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Feb. 25





It was clear, warm, and mostly calm on the bird survey today. 58 species were found. Highlights were King Rail, American Bittern, and Neotropic Cormorant. Here is my list for today:




Canada Geese - 5

Wood Duck - 2

Gadwall - 191

Mallard - 87

Northern Shoveler - 72

Northern Pintail - 817

Green-winged Teal - 3

Canvasback - 1

Ring-necked Duck - 105

Lesser Scaup - 6

Bufflehead - 9

Common Goldeneye - 1

Hooded Merganser - 14

Ruddy Duck - 11

Pied-billed Grebe – 22

Neotropic Cormorant - 1

Double-crested Cormorant - 14

American Bittern - 1

Great-blue Heron - 10

Black Vulture - 35

Turkey Vulture – 34

Northern Harrier - 4

Red-shouldered Hawk - 3

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

American Kestrel - 1

King Rail - 1

American Coot – 650

Killdeer - 7

Wilson's Snipe - 25

Mourning Dove - 2

Belted Kingfisher - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1

Downy Woodpecker - 3

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker - 5

Pileated Woodpecker - 2

Eastern Phoebe - 5

Blue Jay - 4

American Crow – 10

Fish Crow - 15

Tree Swallow - 3

Carolina Chickadee - 8

Tufted Titmouse - 3

Carolina Wren - 7

Winter Wren - 1

Marsh Wren - 4

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2

Eastern Bluebird - 10

Brown Thrasher - 3

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5

Pine Warbler - 1

Eastern Towhee - 2

Song Sparrow - 7

Swamp Sparrow - 2

White-throated Sparrow - 5

Dark-eyed Junco - 8

Northern Cardinal – 14

Red-winged Blackbird – 24










Herps:




American Alligators

Red-eared Sliders

Southern Painted Turtle

Blanchard's Cricket Frogs

Cajun Chorus Frogs - calling

Spring Peepers - calling

Coastal Plain Leopard Frogs - calling







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR





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