New cooperators are always most welcome, but must practise a responsible code of
Only a very few well timed visits to a nest are
ary to record basic data and to determine nesting success. Instructions on
finding, timing visits to the nest, code of conduct at the nest site and on
ting the nest record cards are available by writing to the Coordinator, Maritimes

conduct at all nest sites.

Nest RecordsScheme, c/o Canadian Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 1590, Sackville,

New Brunswick, EOA 3CO.

Table 1. M.N.R.S. holdings for

P.E.I. as of March 24, 1980.

Svecies Cards
Pied-billed Grebe 20
Great Cormorant 50
Double-crested Cormorant 18
Great Blue Heron 50
American Bittern 2
Canada Goose 10
Mallard 1
Black Duck 82
Gadwall Gk
Pintail 2)
American Green-winged Teal 9
Blue-winged Teal 36
American Wigeon “ss
Northern Shoveler 2
Wood Duck 2
Ring-necked Duck 23
Hooded Merganser i
Common Merganser a
Red-oreasted Merganser 36
Toshawk D,
Red-tailed Hawk zi
Bald Eagle 4
Marsh Hawk aL
Osprey 82
Merlin (Pigeon Hawk) 2
American Kestrel (Svarrow Hawk)l
Ruffed Grouse 5
Gray Partridge 5
Sora 8
American Coot 2
Piping Plover 84
Semipalmated Plover ab
Killdeer 1;

American Woodcock

Common Snipe

Upland Sandpiper (Plover)
Spotted Sandpiper

Willet

Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull

Ring-billed Gull

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Common Tern

Arctic Tern

Tern spp.

Black Guillemot

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl

Long-eared Owl

Saw-whet Owl

Common Nighthawk

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Common Flicker

Downy Woodpecker

Black-backed Three-toed
Woodpecker

Eastern Kingbird

Eastern Wood Pewee

Horned Lark

Tree Swallow

Bank Swallow

Barn Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Blue Jay

Common Raven

Common Crow

Black-capped Chickadee

Boreal Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Gray Catbird

American Robin

Hermit Thrush

Sweinson's Thrush

Cedar Waxwing

Starling

Red-eyed Vireo

Tennessee Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Ovenbird

Common Yellowthroat

American Redstart

House Sparrow

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbir

Northern Oriole(Baltimore)

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