RESULTS OF THE 1979 FRANCIS BAIN BIRD-A-THON

The 2nd annual Francis Bain Bird-A-Thon was held on Sunday May 27, 1979. Eight of the Society's finest donned their rain pants this year and stalked birds in areas of East Kings (R. Curley (Chief East Point Birder) and W. Johnston), Montague (J. Wright), Hillsborough—Cherry Valley (M. Mallett), National Park (W. Cairns and C. Martin) Dunk River (K. Martin and D. Smith).

The following is a list of the 98 species seen and or heard by our observers.

Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Great Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron Canada Goose

Brant

Mallard

Black Duck

Pintail

Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Common Eider

Black Scoter

Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Marsh Hawk

Osprey

Kestrel

Ruffed Grouse

Gray Partridge

Sora

Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer Black-bellied Plover American Woodcock Common Snipe

Spotted Sandpiper Willet

Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Great Black-backed Gull

Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Caspian Tern Black Guillemot Rock Dove Belted Kingfisher Common Flicker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird Eastern Wood Pewee Horned Lark Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay Common Raven Common Crow Black-capped Chickadee Boreal'Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Catbird Robin Swainson's Thrush Ruby-crowned Kinglet Common Starling Red-eyed Vireo Black-and-White Warbler

Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Warbler Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Bayfbreasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Ovenbird Yellowthroat American Redstart House Sparrow Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Common Crackle Brown-headed Cowbird Rose-breasted Grosbeak Evening Grosbeak Purple Finch American Goldfinch Savannah Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow.

We thank all the people and organizations which sponsored us. -Dav1d Smith, Birdfa-thon Compiler (Newton, Kinkora, P.E.I.)

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