Birds seen on 2/6/01 field trip to Waites Island

Some of these were only seen by a few observers.

Please add the bold faced birds to the list of "quiz birds" - ones you are responsible for recognizing by sight. With the ones from the HBSP field trip, there should be about 20 "quiz birds" on your list.

1 Brown Pelican

1 Double-crested Cormorant

1 Great Egret

[1Great Blue Heron, on drive]

40 Scoters (including Surf Scoters and probably Black Scoters)

2 Bufflehead

3 Long-tailed Duck

3 Red-breasted Merganser

15 Turkey Vulture (on drive)

1 Sharp-shinned Hawk

1 Cooper's Hawk

1 Am. Kestrel (on drive)

1 Red-tailed Hawk (on drive)

2 Northern Harrier (females)

75 Semipalmated Plover

1 Kildeer (on drive)

1 Piping Plover

1 Willet

3 Greater Yellowlegs

4 Western Sandpiper

75 Dunlin

13 Sanderling

20 Dowitcher, sp. (probably Short-billed)

5 Ring-billed Gull

3 Herring Gull

1 Great Black-backed Gull

1 Bonaparte's Gull

3 Mourning Dove (on drive)

1 Carolina Chickadee (heard only)

2 E. Bluebird (on drive)

80 Am. Robin

4 N. Mockingbird

75 European Starling (on drive)

40 Yellow-rumped Warbler

1 Song Sparrow

1 White-throated Sparrow

60 Red-winged Blackbird