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Wildlife Reports
June
2, 2008
Region
5 Wildlife Areas
Klickitat Wildlife Area Mourning Dove Call Count Survey: Manager VanLeuven
completed a mourning dove call count survey from BZ Corner to Glenwood. Manager
VanLeuven heard only 3 doves during the survey (no visual observations) and
also saw 1 foraging sandhill crane during the survey. GPS coordinates were recorded
for all listening stops on the dove survey route and current descriptions of
the stops were written and sent to survey coordinator Kraege.
Wildlife
Diversity Division
Western Pond Turtle Management: Biologist Holman concluded the 14-day
western pond turtle capture effort at the Pierce Ranch Unit of the Ridgefield
National Wildlife Refuge. Forty-one traps were set in 4 different water-bodies
in an attempt to capture as large a portion of the Refuge's pond turtle population
as possible. Extremely high Columbia River water and cool, rainy weather complicated
the capture effort. A total of 130 western pond turtle captures have been recorded
encompassing 55 different individual turtles. Sixty-nine incidental captures
of painted turtles have been recorded as well. Thanks to Fisheries Biologist
Groesbeck, Wildlife Biologist Prince, Priority Habitats and Species Biologist
Azerrad, Technician Ridenour, Customer Service Specialist Gonzalez, and Volunteer
Renan for their help during the project.
Sixty-six species of wildlife were incidentally observed and identified during the project. The combination of aquatic, wetland, riparian forest, mixed conifer-deciduous forest and meadow habitat provide habitat to a wide range of wildlife. Species observed include: Western pond turtle, western painted turtle, elk, black-tailed deer, coyote, otter, beaver, nutria, rabbit, wood duck, mallard, common merganser, great blue heron, osprey, bald eagle, red-tailed hawk, turkey vulture, red-winged blackbird, American goldfinch, California quail, American robin, starling, downy woodpecker, stellar's jay, crow, tree frog, chinook salmon, carp, catfish, sunfish (spp.), Canada geese, cormorant, bobcat, scrub jay, garter snake, pileated woodpecker, yellow warbler, hooded merganser, flicker, raven, Western tanager, barn swallow, tree swallow, band-tailed pigeon, spotted towhee, song sparrow, yellow-breasted chat, warbling vireo, swainson's thrush, common yellowthroat, Brewer's blackbird, cedar waxwing, peregrine falcon, purple finch, black-headed grosbeak, spotted sandpiper, rufous hummingbird, willow flycatcher, marsh wren, raccoon, Western wood pewee, black-capped chickadee, hairy woodpecker, meadow vole and Townsend's mole. Special thanks to Volunteer Renan for her ability to identify the wide variety of avian species present on the Refuge.
Habitat Conservation Plans: Region 5 Wildlife Areas are targeted for species and land management activity inventories this year as part of the statewide multi-year Habitat Conservation Plan effort. Olympia and Regional staff from Wildlife, Habitat, Fish, and Enforcement met to provide input and discuss the goals of the effort for the Cowlitz, Mt. St. Helens, Shillapoo, and Klickitat Wildlife Areas. The HCP will guide long-term conservation and protection of species and will ensure compliance with the Endangered Species Act.
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