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Lake Pend Oreille, Pend Oreille Lake

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Lake name:
Lake Pend Oreille, Pend Oreille Lake
Location:
Idaho
HydroLAKE ID:
719
GRanD ID:
305
Latitude:
48.158273
Longitude:
-116.440182
Surface area (km2):
360.3
Basin type:
reservoir
Dam completion date:
1955
Management agency:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Lake use:
hydroelectricity flood control
Region associations:
Idaho Panhandle National Forests; Okanogan Highlands Ecoregion; Pend Oreille River
Comments:
This lake is the largest lake in Idaho and one of the deepest lakes of the western states. It reaches 1,237 feet in depth.

Summary of Surveys (5)

Survey Citation:
Idaho Department of Fish and Game. 2017. Idaho State Wildlife Action Plan, 2015. Boise (ID): Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Grant No.: F14AF01068 Amendment #1. Available from: http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/. Sponsored by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program.

  • Time period
    N/A
  • Source
    SWAP
  • Both Western and Clarks?
    N
Count Type Range Max Year
Max Adults 1 to 100 presence each year
Most Recent Adults 1 to 100 presence each year
Max Nests 1 to 100 10 each year
Most Recent Nests 1 to 100 10 each year
Max Chicks 0 0 2015
Most Recent Chicks 0 0 2015

Comments:

Western grebe colony of 2 to 10 nests per year but doesn't state which years. Also, that it had no reproductive success in 2015. Part of Okanogan Highlands.

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
    12 July 2010
  • Source
    Summary
  • Both Western and Clarks?
    N
Count Type Range Max Year
Max Adults 1 to 100 58 2010
Most Recent Adults 1 to 100 58 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:

Denton Slough. Estimate, not direct count of individual breeding birds. 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 Citation:
Historical data in 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
    2 July 2007, 21 July 2007
  • Source
    Summary
  • Both Western and Clarks?
    N
Count Type Range Max Year
Max Adults 1 to 100 32 2007
Most Recent Adults 1 to 100 18 2007
Max Nests 1 to 100 16 2007
Most Recent Nests 1 to 100 9 2007
Max Chicks N/A N/A N/A
Most Recent Chicks N/A N/A N/A

Comments:

Denton Slough. Surveys done by Weinandt/Pfaff. Only July 2 survey was direct count of individual breeding birds, unknown estimate type. Other surveys were nest counts doubled to estimate # of breeding birds. Survey and estimate type for some of these are unknown but most likely from ground and direct count of nest.

Survey Citation:
Moulton, C. pers. comm. 2021 email.

  • Time period
    N/A
  • Source
    Personal communication (email)
  • Both Western and Clarks?
    N/A
Count Type Range Max Year
Max Adults N/A N/A N/A
Most Recent Adults N/A N/A N/A
Max Nests see comments see comments see comments
Most Recent Nests see comments see comments see comments
Max Chicks see comments see comments see comments
Most Recent Chicks see comments see comments see comments

Comments:

This entry to capture Colleen Moulton's (IDFG) comments on which breeding lakes might still be active. "Here’s a list of those that I know have had breeding birds in recent years: American Falls Reservoir, Blackfoot Reservoir, Cave Lake, CJ Strike Reservoir, Island Park Reservoir, Lake Pend Oreille, Market Lake WMA, Mud Lake WMA. These are all fairly small colonies (although Mud Lake used to be sizeable). There may be others, but I’m less familiar with/have less documentation of them."

Survey Citation:
Peterson, L. A. 1977. Colonial waterbirds in Idaho. Special Report to Idaho Department of Fish and Game. 38 pp.

  • Time period
    1903
  • Source
    Report
  • Both Western and Clarks?
    N
Count Type Range Max Year
Max Adults 1 to 100 presence 1903
Most Recent Adults 1 to 100 presence 1903
Max Nests 1 to 100 1 1903
Most Recent Nests 1 to 100 1 1903
Max Chicks N/A N/A N/A
Most Recent Chicks N/A N/A N/A

Comments:

Peterson reports that Burleigh cites nesting records such as this one by Moody (1903).

Sources of Information

  • Messager, M. L., B. Lehner, G. Grill, I. Nedeva, and O. Schmitt. 2016. Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach. Nature Communications 7:13603. Data is available at www.hydrosheds.org.; Lehner, B., C. Reidy Liermann, C. Revenga, C. Vorosmarty, B. Fekete, P. Crouzet, P. Doll, M. Endejan, K. Frenken, J. Magome, C. Nilsson, J.C. Robertson, R. Rodel, N. Sindorf, and D. Wisser. 2011. Global Reservoir and Dam Database, Version 1 (GRanDv1): Dams, Revision 01. Palisades, New York: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
  • Lehner, B., C. Reidy Liermann, C. Revenga, C. Vorosmarty, B. Fekete, P. Crouzet, P. Doll, M. Endejan, K. Frenken, J. Magome, C. Nilsson, J.C. Robertson, R. Rodel, N. Sindorf, and D. Wisser. 2011. Global Reservoir and Dam Database, Version 1 (GRanDv1): Dams, Revision 01. Palisades, New York: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
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