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Ottawa County
North American Migration Count
The chart below is a compilation of the last nine years of OIAS participation in the
North American Migration Count.
| Conditions |
2002 |
2001 |
2000 |
1999 |
1998 |
1997 |
1996 |
1995 |
1994 |
|
| Weather |
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|
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| Precipitation |
none |
none |
none |
light |
none |
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|
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| Clouds |
cloudy |
clear |
clear |
cloudy |
clear |
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|
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|
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| Temp Dawn |
32 |
42 |
45 |
47 |
52 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Temp AM |
38 |
45 |
50 |
48 |
68 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Temp Noon |
39 |
48 |
58 |
50 |
69 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Temp PM |
48 |
57 |
55 |
52 |
76 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Temp Dusk |
47 |
47 |
49 |
49 |
59 |
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|
|
|
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| Wind Dawn |
E 10 |
10 N |
10 W |
10 SW |
still |
|
|
|
|
|
| Wind AM |
E 10 |
15 N |
10 W |
15 SW |
10 NE |
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|
|
|
|
| Wind Noon |
E 15 |
15 N |
15 W |
15 SW |
15 NE |
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|
|
|
|
| Wind PM |
E 15 |
15 N |
15 W |
10 SW |
15 W |
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|
|
|
|
| Wind Dusk |
E 15 |
15 N |
15 W |
10 SW |
10 NE |
|
|
|
|
|
| Number of Observers |
11 |
13 |
15 |
13 |
19 |
15 |
20 |
12 |
|
|
| Number of Parties |
5 |
9 |
8 |
6 |
11 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Regular |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Hours on foot |
20.7 |
43.5 |
54.4 |
28.4 |
54.25 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Hours by car |
19.4 |
23.8 |
22.2 |
18.7 |
14.7 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Hours other |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
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| Miles on foot |
18.5 |
28.7 |
50 |
22.2 |
39.75 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Miles by car |
187 |
287 |
26.7 |
294.8 |
269.25 |
|
|
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|
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| Miles other |
|
|
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|
|
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| Night |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Hours |
1.8 |
2.6 |
2.5 |
|
1.25 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Miles |
10 |
40 |
10.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Feeder Watch |
6.3 |
12 |
17 |
2 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
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| Stationary |
6 |
10 |
7.8 |
5 |
6 |
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| |
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|
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| Total Hours |
54.2 |
91.9 |
103.9 |
54.1 |
83.2 |
59.7 |
83.7 |
52.4 |
|
|
| Total Birds |
4584 |
5439 |
5195 |
6143 |
4598 |
5472 |
8482 |
5041 |
|
|
| Total Species |
136 |
121 |
133 |
121 |
113 |
132 |
153 |
128 |
|
|
| Birds/hour |
85 |
59 |
51 |
115 |
55 |
92 |
105 |
101 |
|
|
| Number of Observers |
11 |
13 |
15 |
13 |
19 |
15 |
20 |
12 |
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| |
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| Name |
2002 |
2001 |
2000 |
1999 |
1998 |
1997 |
1996 |
1995 |
1994 |
Total |
| Common Loon |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
|
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
4 |
|
|
7 |
| Horned Grebe |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
| D-crested Cormorant |
16 |
85 |
25 |
44 |
106 |
216 |
223 |
189 |
25 |
929 |
| American Bittern |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Great Blue Heron |
22 |
33 |
16 |
29 |
52 |
37 |
37 |
80 |
16 |
322 |
| Great Egret |
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
|
4 |
| Snowy Egret |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
| Green Heron |
4 |
|
8 |
8 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
8 |
37 |
| BIk.-cr. Night Heron |
|
|
|
|
|
|
8 |
|
|
8 |
| Mute Swan |
82 |
44 |
44 |
87 |
31 |
78 |
30 |
5 |
44 |
445 |
| Canada Goose |
134 |
168 |
94 |
128 |
152 |
184 |
155 |
125 |
94 |
1234 |
| Wood Duck |
7 |
14 |
14 |
7 |
25 |
13 |
35 |
20 |
14 |
149 |
| Green-winged Teal |
|
|
|
|
|
|
12 |
|
|
12 |
| Am Black Duck |
|
|
4 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
4 |
9 |
| Mallard |
161 |
249 |
283 |
293 |
189 |
251 |
436 |
200 |
283 |
2345 |
| Northern Pintail |
2 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
3 |
| Blue-winged Teal |
3 |
2 |
10 |
20 |
11 |
119 |
17 |
2 |
10 |
194 |
| Northern Shoveler |
2 |
|
|
|
6 |
11 |
10 |
12 |
|
41 |
| Gadwall |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
4 |
| American Widgeon |
1 |
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
7 |
| Canvasback |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
| Redhead |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
| Ring-necked Duck |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
| Greater Scaup |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
|
|
3 |
| Lesser Scaup |
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
8 |
12 |
7 |
|
29 |
| Scaup sp. |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Com Goldeneye |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
| Bufflehead |
|
|
|
4 |
|
10 |
2 |
10 |
|
26 |
| Hooded Merganser: |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Com Merganser |
|
|
|
5 |
|
22 |
18 |
3 |
|
48 |
| Red-br Merganser |
7 |
|
|
|
5 |
7 |
|
|
|
19 |
| Ruddy Duck |
|
|
1 |
2 |
12 |
12 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
36 |
| Turkey Vulture |
4 |
35 |
22 |
14 |
18 |
16 |
21 |
33 |
22 |
185 |
| Osprey |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
3 |
| Bald Eagle |
1 |
|
2 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
2 |
6 |
| Sharp-shin Hawk |
|
|
3 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
|
3 |
14 |
| Cooper's Hawk |
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
5 |
| Northern Goshawk |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
| Broad-wing Hawk |
|
1 |
3 |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
3 |
16 |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
6 |
14 |
8 |
5 |
13 |
16 |
13 |
11 |
8 |
94 |
| Buteo sp |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
2 |
|
|
3 |
| American Kestrel |
2 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
3 |
29 |
| Merlin |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
2 |
| Peregrine Falcon |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
6 |
| Ring neck Pheasant |
1 |
2 |
|
|
1 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
|
11 |
| Ruffed Grouse |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
| Wild Turkey |
4 |
8 |
2 |
8 |
|
4 |
12 |
|
2 |
40 |
| Northern Bobwhite |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Virginia Rail |
1 |
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