seems to fail that if I chase a bird in other parts of the province, the same species always seems to show up around

home.

PEI WINTER LIST:

SPECIES OBSERVED: 114

LOONS Red-throated Loon Common Loon

GANNETS Northern Gannet

CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant Great Cormorant

HERONS & BITTERNS Great Blue Heron American Bittem

DUCKS & GEESE Snow Goose

Canada Goose Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Gadwall Green-winged Teal Mallard

American Black Duck Northern Pintail Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Eider

King Eider Harlequin Duck Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter

Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Bufflehead

Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser

HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk

FALCONS American Kestrel Merlin

Gyrfalcon

GROUSE Ruffed Grouse Sharp-tailed Grouse

PHEASANTS AND PARTRIDGES

Gray Partridge Ring-necked Pheasant

RAILS AND COOTS American Coot

SANDPIPERS Purple Sandpiper

GULLS

Mew Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Great Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull American Herring Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake

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AUKS & MURRES Dovekie

Common Murre Razorbill

Black Guillemot

PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Mourning Dove

OWLS

Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl Long-cared Owl Short-cared Owl

KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher

WOODPECKERS Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker

LARKS Horned Lark

KINGLETS Golden—crowned Kinglet

WAXWINGS Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing

MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS

Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher