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Non-Breeding Shorebird Area Survey: West Coast Form for Tallying in the Field Page 1 of 2: Common shorebird Record uncommon and rare species, other species groupings, and vulture, raptors, etc. on page 2 Area Site/Sub-site County Date (DDMMYYYY) StartTime EndTime Circle one standard time daylight time Species Total Tally Species Total Tally Black-bellied Plover

Snowy Plover Western Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer Black-necked Stilt

American Avocet western/least sandpiper

Dunlin yellowlegs, unid species western/least/

Shrt-billed * Lng-billed Dowitcher* dowitcher, unid spp. * Whimbrel

Long-billed Wilson's **

R-neckd Phalarope ** Marbled ** red-necked/red phalarope rd-necked/wilson’s phal Ruddy phalarope unid. spp.

* : We suggest that censusers count all dowitchers as dowitcher spp. If dowitchers are identified to species, indicate how the determination was made. ** Please see note on page 2 regarding seasonally or geographically uncommon to rare species. Add up your tallies and enter sum in total column. Enter totals online and send this form to PRBO. Website address for data entry: http://www.prbo.org/tools/shorebird/ Mailing address: PRBO Wetlands Center; P. O. Box 69; Bolinas, CA 94924 This form continued on page 2. Non-Breeding Shorebird Area Survey: West Coast Form for Tallying in the Field Page 2 of 2: Uncommon and rare shorebirds, vultures, raptors, etc. Record common shorebird species on page 1 Area Site County Date (DDMMYYYY)

Species Total Tally Species Total Tally Am Golden-Plover ** (Reeve) ** Pac Golden-Plover ** Wilson's Snipe golden-plover, Am/Pac med-sized shorebirds *** Black Oystercatcher Turkey Vulture ** Osprey Wandering White-tailed Kite LARGE : Bald Eagle ** curlew/godwit Northern Harrier curlew/whimbrel Sharp-shinned Hawk curlew/whimbrel/godwit Cooper's Hawk curl/whim/godwit/willet Red-shoulder Hawk godwit/willet Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Semipal Sandpiper ** Rough-legged Hawk SMALL SANDPIPERS: Golden Eagle ** western/dunlin American Kestrel west/leas/dunl/sanderling Merlin Baird's Sandpiper ** Peregrine Falcon ** Prairie Falcon Sharp-tailed Sandp ** Common Raven ** American Crow ** OTHER SPECIES ** : sm shorebird, sandp/plov Buff-br Sandpiper ** ** You may be asked for more details on these species, depending on location and time of year *** Includes Black-bellied Plover/dowitchers/knot

Important, check one: Data on this form have / have not been entered on online.

Weather and other census conditions: Check here if weather did NOT affect your ability to conduct the census Check factors that may have diminished census quality significantly: rain wind temp Raptor activity: Check if raptor disturbance may have diminished census quality significantly Human activity: Check if human disturbance may have diminished census quality significantly Tidal conditions: Start of census: low moderate or high // rising falling or slack End of census: low moderate or high // rising falling or slack

Primary contact information: Name Phone number, address change Other observers Notes, including any species ratio info on species combinations reported