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Notes:
I want to move on to birds. These are some results from our winter water fowl surveys that we did in 2000-2001. The first NOAA panel has suggested that the area might be important for species such as Scoter and Scaup. This is the plot of Scaup. The darker colors indicate higher densities of birds. And we are talking about a range of about 500 to about 3,000. You probably cannot see the scale, but this is all in the report. We saw that Scaup were distributed pretty heavily right around the airport. When we look at Scoter, we see that during that time period, they were not distributed too much around the Airport or the borrow site, and this is showing all the water fowl combined. Now what we will see on a permanent basis, again, is loss of habitat in the areas shown here.