NISQUALLY NWR: THURSTON COUNTY 

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DIRECTIONS: From Seattle, follow I-5 south, take exit 114 (Nisqually), turn west and go under freeway and then follow signs to the refuge. The refuge is 8 miles east of Olympia.

DESCRIPTION: There is a 1-mile boardwalk loop. Refuge is open during daylight hours, admission fee is $3. No pets allowed. The 1797 acre refuge is one of the last undisturbed estuaries in Puget Sound. The refuge contains a mixture of woodlands, open grassland, marsh and tide flats. Species include marine mammals, shorebirds, plus woodland and grassland species of birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles.

FIELD TRIP SPECIES - Aves from 1998 to 2007

Nisqually NWR Birds
Aug. 4, 07
Aug. 6, 05

Aug. 7, 99

Aug. 7, 04
Aug. 8, 06

Aug. 8, 98

Aug. 11, 01

Aug. 12, 00

Aug. 16, 03

Aug. 17, 02
Pied-billed Grebe
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Double-crested Cormorant
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Great Blue Heron
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Green Heron        
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American Bittern  
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Canada Geese
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Green-winged Teal   ..
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Mallard
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Northern Shoveler  
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Gadwall   ..
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Cinnamon Teal
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Wood Duck
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Common Merganser  
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Hooded Merganser  
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Bald Eagle
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Osprey
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Northern Harrier
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Red-tailed Hawk
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Cooper's Hawk
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Turkey Vulture
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California Quail        
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American Coot  
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Semipalmated Plover  
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Killdeer  
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Lesser Yellowlegs
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Greater Yellowlegs
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Short-billed Dowitcher  
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Common Snipe  
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Least Sandpiper  
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Spotted Sandpiper  
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Western Sandpipers
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Sanderlings  
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Ring-billed Gull
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Glaucous-winged Gull
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Herring Gull  
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Caspian Tern
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Forster's Tern  
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Mourning Dove  
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Rufous Hummingbird
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Belted Kingfisher
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Downy Woodpecker
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Northern Flicker
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Willow Flycatcher
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Pacific Slope Flycatcher  
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Western Wood-Pewee  
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Western Kingbird  
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Stellar's Jay  
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Purple Martin  
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Bank Swallow  
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Tree Swallow  
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Violet-green Swallow
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Cliff Swallow
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Barn Swallow
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American Crow
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Raven
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Brown Creeper  
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Black-capped Chickadee
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Bushtit
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Bewick's Wren
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Marsh Wren
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American Robin  
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Cedar Waxwing
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Northern Shrike  
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Yellow Warbler
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Wilson's Warbler
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Townsend's Warbler
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Nashville Warbler  
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Macgillvray's Warbler  
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Common Yellowthroat
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Black-headed Grosbeak
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Spotted Towhee  
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Savannah Sparrow  
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Song Sparrow
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White-crowned Sparrow  
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Dark-eyed Junco  
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Red-winged Blackbird
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Brewer's Blackbird  
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Brown-headed Cowbird
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House Finch
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American Goldfinch
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