Storm-petrel spp. Shearwater spp. Northem Gannet Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Canada Geese Mallard

American Black Duck Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal American Wigeon Wood Duck Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck (?) Common Eider

King Eider White-winged Scoter Surf Scoter

Black Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Sharp-shinned Hawk Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier

Merlin

Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs

Red Knot

Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin

Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Iceland Gull

Great Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Caspian Tern

Common Tern

Murre spp.

Black Guillemot

Rock Dove

NEW ISLAND PLANT RECORDS

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl Barred Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker

Blue Jay

Common Raven American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Gray-headed (Boreal) Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler House Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Slate-coloured (Northern) Junco

White-crowned Sparrow Swamp Sparrow

Song Sparrow

by Island Nature Trust

Over the past few years, a number of plants previously thought to be absent fi'om Prince Edward Island have been found here through work by Island Nature Trust, the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre and the Provincial Government, among others. The summer of 2002 was exciting - botanically speaking - with at least 19 new species found through the Trust’s programs alone. The Trust’s botanical field team includes Kate MacQuarrie, Robert Sharkie and Matthew Fraser.

Discoveries started early in the season,‘ with Draba verna (Spring Whitlow- Q grass) found at Cavendish. This tiny member of the Brassz'caceae (Mustard Family) flowers in April and early May, and is very inconspicuous later in the season. Unlike the rare Draba incana (Hoary Whitlow-grass) which is native and found only at North Cape, D. verna was introduced from Europe and is commonly spread from campground to campground on vehicles.

Garden escapes dominated this year’s new records. While such exotic species can sometimes persist around long-abandoned gardens or homesteads, it is only once they begin to reproduce without cultivation and spread into uncultivated habitats that they can be counted among the Island’s flora. Escapes found growing in the wild in 2002 included Asparagus officinalis (Garden Asparagus) at French River, Narcissus poeticus (Poet’s Narcissus) and Papaver somniferum (Common Poppy) at Cavendish and Lilium lancifolium (Tiger Lily) near Seaview. This was a big year for new roses, with Rosa blanda (Meadow Rose), R. eglanteria (Sweetbrier), R. multiflora (Multiflora Rose) found at Cavendish and a yet-to-be-identified rose found in Brackley. Another invasive honeysuckle Lonicera tartarica, (T artarian Honeysuckle) turned up at Cavendish. A specimen of an escaped Acer cissifolium (Ivy-leaved Maple) was brought to the Trust office from Pisquid West for identification. Other non-native species found during the field season included Anthriscus sylvestris (Woodland Angelica) and Vitus labrusca (Fox Grape) from Brackley and a new Crataegus (Hawthorne) from Cavendish. This latter genus can be tricky to identify, and a specimen is being sent off-Island for confirmation. A totally unknown member of

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