Date: 5/20/26 6:58 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - May 20

It was partly cloudy, warm, and mostly calm on the bird survey today. 66 species were found. Very few migrants around. Here is my list for today:





Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 15

Canada Geese - 9

Wood Duck - 12

Pied-billed Grebe – 5 (2 on nests and one with a brood of young.)

Neotropic Cormorant - 5

Anhinga - 41

Least Bittern - 1

Great-blue Heron - 6

Great Egret - 17

Snowy Egret - 21

Little-blue Heron - 19

Cattle Egret - 66

Green Heron - 6

Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 1

White Ibis - 84

Black Vulture - 9

Turkey Vulture – 16

Mississippi Kite - 26

Purple Gallinule - 171

Common Gallinule - 125 (also the first brood of young seen.)

American Coot – 10

Mourning Dove - 5

Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 12

Chimney Swift - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6

Pileated Woodpecker - 1

Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2

Acadian Flycatcher - 1

Alder Flycatcher - 1

Great-crested Flycatcher - 2

Eastern Kingbird - 9

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 5

White-eyed Vireo- 8

Bell's Vireo - 1

Red-eyed Vireo - 2

Blue Jay - 1

American Crow - 4

Fish Crow - 8

Purple Martin - 4

Tree Swallow - 12

Cliff Swallow - 8

Barn Swallow - 5

Carolina Chickadee - 5

Tufted Titmouse - 6

Carolina Wren - 17

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2

Eastern Bluebird - 5

Wood Thrush - 3

Prairie Warbler - 2

Prothonotary Warbler - 12

Common Yellowthroat - 14

Hooded Warbler - 1

Yellow-breasted Chat - 9

Summer Tanager - 2

Eastern Towhee - 1

Clay-colored Sparrow - 1

Northern Cardinal – 21

Blue Grosbeak - 2

Indigo Bunting - 25

Painted Bunting - 9

Dickcissel - 18

Red-winged Blackbird - 35

Common Grackle - 17

Brown-headed Cowbird - 13

Orchard Oriole - 4

House Sparrow - 1







Herps:




American Alligator

Common Musk Turtle

Mississippi Mud Turtle

Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

Blanchard's Cricket Frog

Green Treefrog

Green Frog

Bullfrog




Odes:




Prince Baskettail

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Common Whitetail







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR


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