1 Hooded Merganser , 8 Red-breasted Nuthatch 
     
    
   
   
    
     421 Common Merganser 1 Brown Creeper 
     
    

    
     35 Bed-breasted Mbrganser 13 Golden-crowned Kinglet 
     
    

    
     1 Bald Eagle 2 American Robin 
     
    

    
     1 Buteo sp. 1374 European Starling 
     
    

    
     21 Gray Partridge 1 Song Sparrow 
     
    

    
     1 Ruffed Grouse 1 Dark-eyed Junco 
     
    

    
     2 Ringtbilled Gull 1 Red-winged Blackbird 
     
     527 Herring Gull 22 Brown-headed Cowbird 
     
    

    
     1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 15 White-winged Crossbill 
     
    

    
     1 Glaucous Gull 25 Pine Siskin 
     
     254 Great Black-backed Gull 417 Evening Grosbeak 
     
     175 Thick-billed Murre (hypothetical) 371 House Sparrow 
     
    

    
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     BIRD SURVEYS 
     
     FROM PRINCE 
     
     EDWARD ISLAND 
     
     .    FERRIES 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the past number of years, the Canadian Wildlife service has accumulated 
     
     a great store of data on the distribution of seabirds in eastern Canadian 
     
     waters. This information has greatly aided our understanding of seabird ecology 
     
     because, if we know where birds are, we can begin to answer the deeper questions 
     
     of why they choose these areas, and how they find them. 
     
    

    
     —~Despite the wealth of marine life in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, our knowledge- 
     
     of seabird distribution patterns in the waters around Prince Edward ISland has 
     
     lagged behind that of open Atlantic waters off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 
     
     Accordingly, the Prince Edward Island Natural History society has decided to 
     
     launch its own program to fill this gap. For this purpose, the ferries linking 
     
     the Island to Nova Sbotia, New Brunswick and the Magdalen Islands, provide 
     
     convenient platforms. society members and others are invited to use standard- 
     
     ized forms to record birds they see from ferries, and to submit these to the 
     
     Natural History society. A copy of this form is printed in this Newsletter. 
     
    

    
     Because this project ahs been conceived as a scientific exercise, it is 
     
     essential that sightings be made, and the forms be completed, exactly according 
     
     to the instructions given on the reverse of the form. In particular, observations 
     
     made while the vessel is steaming must be made during watches which are ten 
     
     minutes long. This is to allow our data to be directly comparable to those 
     
     collected by the Canadian Wildlife Service. 
     
    

    
     For additional information and forms, please contact Winnie Cairns or 
     
     Geoff Hogan at the next meeting of the Societx. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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