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Sachuest Point<br />

National Wildlife Refuge<br />

<strong>Landfill</strong> Remediation<br />

and<br />

Habitat Restoration<br />

Suzanne Paton, USFWS


Priority species and habitat needs<br />

• Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow – high<br />

and low marsh for nesting and foraging


Priority species and habitat needs<br />

• Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow – high<br />

and low marsh for nesting and foraging<br />

• American Black Duck – shallow water for<br />

dabbling, resting


Priority species and habitat needs<br />

• Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow – high<br />

and low marsh for nesting and foraging<br />

• American Black Duck – shallow water for<br />

dabbling, resting<br />

• Migratory Shorebirds – mudflats and<br />

varying depths of shallow water


Priority species and habitat needs<br />

• Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow – high<br />

and low marsh for nesting and foraging<br />

• American Black Duck – shallow water for<br />

dabbling, resting<br />

• Migratory Shorebirds – mudflats and<br />

varying depths of shallow water<br />

• Wading birds – channels and pools that<br />

support fish


Photo: Great Meadow Farm


Photo: Great Meadows Farm


Bird surveys conducted:<br />

• December 2004 – present<br />

• Total of 268 surveys<br />

• Primarily April through November<br />

• Fifty-five five species of waterbirds detected<br />

• Seven birds of prey


180<br />

160<br />

140<br />

120<br />

100<br />

80<br />

60<br />

40<br />

20<br />

0<br />

168<br />

Species detected most frequently (268 surveys)<br />

147<br />

138<br />

133 133<br />

111<br />

102<br />

70 69 68 67<br />

54 54 50<br />

Am. Black duck<br />

Ring billed gull<br />

Great black-backed gull<br />

Black-bellied plover<br />

Semipalmated plover<br />

semipalmated sandpiper<br />

Greater yellowlegs<br />

Double crested cormorant<br />

Least sandpiper<br />

Laughing gull<br />

Killdeer<br />

Piping plover<br />

Mallard<br />

Herring Gull


200<br />

180<br />

160<br />

140<br />

120<br />

100<br />

80<br />

60<br />

40<br />

20<br />

0<br />

200<br />

130<br />

75<br />

66 63<br />

30<br />

17 16 13 8 7 6 6 5 5<br />

Dunlin<br />

Piping Plover<br />

Lesser Yellowlegs<br />

Spotted Sandpiper<br />

White Rumped Sandpiper<br />

Willet<br />

Greater Yellowlegs<br />

Black-bellied Plover<br />

Killdeer<br />

Ruddy Turnstone<br />

Semipalmated Sandpiper<br />

Least Sandpiper<br />

Short Billed Dowitcher<br />

Sanderling<br />

Semipalmated Plover<br />

Max # of individuals


Common shorebirds detected 2005-2007<br />

Max # of individuals<br />

200<br />

180<br />

160<br />

140<br />

120<br />

100<br />

80<br />

60<br />

40<br />

Sanderling<br />

Semipalmated Plover<br />

Semipalmated Sandpiper<br />

Short Billed Dowitcher<br />

Least Sandpiper<br />

Ruddy Turnstone<br />

20<br />

0<br />

Mar April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov


Max # of individuals<br />

18<br />

16<br />

14<br />

12<br />

10<br />

8<br />

6<br />

4<br />

Shorebirds detected 2005-2007<br />

Black-bellied Plover<br />

Dunlin<br />

Greater Yellowlegs<br />

Killdeer<br />

Lesser Yellowlegs<br />

Piping Plover<br />

Spotted Sandpiper<br />

White Rumped Sandpiper<br />

Willet<br />

2<br />

0<br />

Mar April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov


Additional Shorebirds detected<br />

(few and infrequent)<br />

• American Avocet<br />

• American Oystercatcher<br />

• Baird’s s Sandpiper<br />

• Hudsonian Godwit<br />

• Marbled Godwit<br />

• Pectoral Sandpiper<br />

• Red Phalarope<br />

• Stilt Sandpiper<br />

• Western Sandpiper


Gulls species detected 2004-2007<br />

Max # of individuals<br />

1200<br />

1000<br />

800<br />

600<br />

400<br />

200<br />

Bonapartes Gull<br />

Great Black-backed Gull<br />

Herring Gull<br />

Laughing Gull<br />

Little Gull<br />

Ring-billed Gull<br />

0<br />

March<br />

April<br />

May<br />

June<br />

July<br />

Aug<br />

Sept<br />

Oct<br />

Nov<br />

Dec


1000<br />

Tern species detected 2005-2007<br />

Black Tern<br />

360<br />

Caspian Tern<br />

Common Tern<br />

M ax # o f in dividuals<br />

100<br />

10<br />

13<br />

2<br />

3<br />

15<br />

Forsters Tern<br />

Least Tern<br />

Royal Tern<br />

1<br />

May June July Aug Sept


9<br />

8<br />

7<br />

6<br />

5<br />

4<br />

3<br />

2<br />

1<br />

0<br />

Wading birds detected 2005-2007<br />

Glossy Ibis<br />

Great Blue Heron<br />

Great Egret<br />

Green Heron<br />

Snowy Egret<br />

May<br />

June<br />

July<br />

August<br />

Sept<br />

Oct<br />

Nov<br />

Dec<br />

April<br />

Max # of individuals


Max # of individuals<br />

70<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

Dabbling ducks - 2006-2007<br />

American Black Duck<br />

Blue-winged Teal<br />

Green-winged Teal<br />

Mallard<br />

Northern Shoveler<br />

0<br />

March<br />

April<br />

May<br />

June<br />

July<br />

Aug<br />

Sept<br />

Oct<br />

Nov<br />

Dec


MANY, MANY Thanks to:<br />

Rey Larsen and Bruce Larson for<br />

being so very dedicated to<br />

documenting the bird life of<br />

Sachuest Point (and beyond)!<br />

NRCS, CRMC, RIDEM …

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