Highland Lake

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Grebe Survey Summary

  • Max Adults: 2
  • Year: 2009, 2010
  • Most Recent Adults: 2
  • Year: 2010
  • Survey Type: Shore
  • Most Common Threats Reported: N/A
Lake name:
Highland Lake
Location:
Colorado
Latitude:
40.2462879
Longitude:
-105.0176931
Basin type:
reservoir
Management agency:
Highland Lake Reservoir Company; Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Lake use:
oil and gas fracking recreation
Region associations:
Grand Junction
Comments:
Low water levels is due to drawdown for oil and gas fracking in Weld County. For recreation, human contact with water is not recommended because there is no testing of water quality.

Surveys (1)

Survey Citation:
Cavitt, J. F., S. L. Jones, N. M. Wilson, J. S Dieni, T. S. Zimmerman, R. H. Doster, and W. H. Howe. 2014. Atlas of breeding colonial waterbirds in the interior western United States. Research Report, U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, Colorado.

  • Type
    shore
  • Time period
    25 May 2009, 2010
  • Source
    Report
  • Both Western and Clarks?
    N
Count Type Range Max Year
Max Adults 1 to 100 2 2009, 2010
Most Recent Adults 1 to 100 2 2010
Max Nests 1 to 100 1 2010
Most Recent Nests 1 to 100 1 2010
Max Chicks N/A N/A N/A
Most Recent Chicks N/A N/A N/A

Comments:

Smith is observer. Nest X2 for the 2010 estimate of breeding adults (2). Only year is given for the 2010 survey date. Conducted as part of Western Colonial Waterbird Survey (WCWS), a breeding survey of 18 species from May to July 2009 to 2011, resulting in this Atlas. Survey dates given here are the only dates provided.

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