FUNDY PEREGRINE AT EAST POINT Dan McAskill & Bruce Johnso 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Eastern Graphic, July 3lst issue showed a picture of Nelson Hurry of 
     
     the P.E.I. Fish and Wildlife Division holding a Peregrine Falcon while the 
     
    
   
   
    
     bird's finder, Mr. Harry Harris looked on. Mr. Harris, the former keeper of the 
     
    
   
   
    
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     East Point Lighthouse, found the bird on Sunday, July 28th when it was pointed 
     
    
   
   
    
     out near the lighthouse by tourists. The bird was in poor shape and Mr. Harr 
     
     moved the bird to his basement, fed it, and reported its presence. 
     
    

    
     The bird was Peregrine Falcon "HK" which was hatched in the Canadian 
     
     Wildlife Service's Peregrine Falcon Breeding Facility in Wainwright, Alberta. 
     
     It was placed in a hack box on July 4th along with 4 other peregrines at the 
     
     Five Islands Provincial Park (approximately 25 kilometers east of Parrsboro, 
     
     Nova Scotia) as part of the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Plan. This endangered 
     
    
   
   
    
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     species recovery plan includes an artificial breeding and mass release program 
     
    
   
   
    
     for the Bay of Fundy. The goal of the plan is the removal of the Peregrine 
     
     Falcon from the Canadian endangered species list (COSEWIC list). The mass 
     
     hacking release program is funded in part by World Wildlife Fund Canada. 
     
    

    
     HK was released from the hack box on July 15th and was driven off by an 
     
    
   
   
    
     adult Peregrine Falcon “6N2”, a rogue falcon released from the Cape d'Or, N.S. 
     
    
   
   
    
     in 1983. After being discovered at East Point and fed by Mr. Harris, Nelson 
     
     Hurry returned the bird on July 30th to the CWS Sackville office where it was 
     
     placed in the model hack box for rest and feeding. On August 5th, HK was 
     
    
   
   
    
     removed from the hack box and taken to the Kew's Raptor Rehabilitation Centre - 
     
    
   
   
    
     in St. Margaret's Bay,~N.S. 
     
     August in Minas Basin. 
     
    

    
     In 1991, five pairs of peregrines nested successfully in New Brunswick. 
     
     They fledged a minimum of 10 young. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is hoped that the HK will be released in late 
     
    
   
   
    
     1991 CANADIAN ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST adapted from World Wildlife Fund 
     
     The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada has produce 
     
     the latest list of Canadian endangered species. The list now includes 211 
     
     species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and plants. Since the 
     
     list was first compiled, two species have been downlisted and one species has 
     
     been delisted. This past year the grizzly bear (plains population) and the 
     
     Illinois tick trefoil were designated as extirpated (a native species of plan 
     
     0r animal no longer known to exist in Canada but known to exist elsewhere). 
     
     1991, six species were added to the endangered list, 2 to the threatened list 
     
     and 6 to the vulnerable list. £{ 8 - 0“, 
     
     Extinct, Extirpated, Endangered ‘zirhg 
     
     & Threatened Species in Eastern Canada 6, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     2 Sea Mink; 3 Atlantic Walrus; 6 Gray Whale; 
     
     9, 10 Beluga Whale; 12 Eastern Cougar; 
     
    

    
     15 Right Whale; 18 Wolverine (E. pop.) 
     
    

    
     20 Harbour Porpoise; 23 Pine Martin 
     
    

    
     (Nfld); 26 Woodland Caribou (Mar. pop.) 
     
    

    
     27 Great Auk; 28 Labrador Duck; 32 
     
    

    
     Harlequin Duck; 37 Piping Plover; 47 
     
    

    
     Roseate Tern; 51 Leatherback Turtle; 60 
     
     Acadian Whitefish; 65 Copper Redhorse; 76 
     
     Furbish's Lousewort; 81 Mountain Avens 
     
    

    
     (E. pop.); 82 Pink Coreopsis; 91 ,fl’ 
     
     Thread-leaved Sundew; 92 Water-pennywort; 
     
    

    
     96 Anticosti Aster; 104 Golden Crest; 110 
     
     Plymouth Gentian; 113 Sweet Pepperbush 
     
    
   
   
    
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