MARITIME BHORBBIRD SURVEYS AT MACCALLUM’B POINT Gisele Martin & 
     
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     Au 2 Au 9 Au 19 Se 5 Se 19 0c 10 
     
     Semipalmated Plover 10 5 24 28 
     
     Black-bellied Plover 2 18 58 46 9 13 
     
     Ruddy Turnstone 2 6 6 
     
     Willet 22 12 9 
     
     Greater Yellowlegs 1 2 2 3 
     
     Red Knot 73 1 67 
     
     Least Sandpiper 165 
     
     Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 9 
     
     Sanderling 1 85 
     
     FALL BIRD COUNT - P.E.I. NATIONAL PARK adapted from 
     
    
   
   
    
     information compiled by Maurice Roy 
     
    
   
   
    
     The first annual Autumn Bird Count was held at the P.E.I. 
     
     National Park on Saturday, October 8th, 1994. This project was a 
     
     joint initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Parks 
     
     Canada and the Natural History Society of Prince Edward Island. 
     
     Four groups participated in the counts for 3 hours each. In total, 
     
     59 species were observed. These were: 1 Common Loon; 2 Red- 
     
     throated Loon; 16 Pied-billed Grebe; 27 Northern Gannet; 11 Great 
     
     Cormorant; 125 Double-crested Cormorant; 12 Great Blue Heron; 397 
     
     Canada Geese; 1 Snow Goose, 8 Mallard; 170 American Black Duck; 8 
     
     Northern Pintail; 76 Green-winged Teal; 20 Blue-winged Teal; 161 
     
     American Widgeon; 10 Wood Ducks; 22 Ring-necked Ducks; 13 Greater 
     
     Scaup; 31 Common Goldeneye; 18 Common Eider; 3 White-winged Scoter; 
     
     30 Common Merganser; 1 Red-breasted MerganSer; 1 Northern Harrier; 
     
     1 Merlin; 5 Semipalmated Plover; 12 Black—bellied Plover; 3 Ruddy 
     
     Turnstone; 12 Greater Yellowlegs; 9 Lesser Yellowlegs; 1 White- 
     
     rumped Sandpiper; 6 Dunlin; 40 Semipalmated Sandpiper; 6 Hudsonian 
     
     Godwit; 2 Sanderling; 16 Greater Black-backed Gulls; 17 Herring 
     
     Gull; 33 Ring-billed Gull; 19 Bonaparte’s Gull; 25 Common Tern; 2 
     
     Caspian Tern; 1 Northern Flicker; 1 Black-backed Woodpecker; 31 
     
     American Crow; 1 Common Raven; 13 Blue Jays; 15 Black-capped 
     
     Chickadees; 6 Boreal. Chickadees; 15 ‘Red-breasted. Nuthatch; 10 
     
     American Robin; 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet; 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet; 
     
     1 Philadelphia Vireo; 1 Tennessee Warbler; 17 Yellow-rumped 
     
     Warblers; 3 Savannah Sparrow; 2 Northern Junco; 1 White-throated 
     
     Sparrow; 3 Song Sparrow. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANIMAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Plants: Dandelions were seen in flower in early Nov. by AS. In 
     
     Dromore, the leaf colour peaked this year in the last week of 
     
    
   
   
    
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