NATURE NOTES FROM ACADIA

THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY'S LIST OF MT. DESERT ISLAND BIRDS

For a period of five consecutive years, 1926-1930 inclusive, members of the Massachusetts Audubon Society spent the first two weeks in July at the Appalachian Mountain Club Camp on Mt. Desert Island. During each of these two-week periods, bird lists were compiled, and the number of species seen varied from 96 in 1927 to 81 in 1928 and 1930. The lists are of special interest in that they represent a tabulation of those birds which the summer visitors to Acadia National Park are liable to see.

A compilation of the five lists shows that a total of 121 species are represented. As these lists are confined to birds seen only during the first half of July, it is reasonable to assume that approximately 150 species may be seen on the island in the course of a summer.

Through kind permission granted by Mr. Winthrop Packard, Secretary of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, we are enabled to make use of these lists for "Nature Notes from Acadia." For the sake of ready reference the five lists have been made into one. The number which follows each species represents the number of years the species have been reported. The classification is according to the check list recognized at the time the separate lists were compiled.

Loon - 5 Black Guillemot - 5 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Herring Gull - 5 Common Tern - 5 Arctic Tern - 3 Leach's Petrel - 5 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Mallard - 1 Black Duck - 4 American Scoter - 4 White-winged Scoter - 4 Great Blue Heron - 5 Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 Woodcock - 3 Least Sandpiper - 5 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 3 Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Spotted Sandpiper - 5 Canadian Ruffed Grouse - 5 Mourning Dove - 1 Marsh Hawk - 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 Cooper's Hawk - 3 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Broad-winged Hawk - 1 Bald Eagle - 5

Sparrow Hawk - 2 Osprey - 3 Short-eared Owl - 1 Barred Owl - 2 Screech Owl - 1 Great-horned Owl - 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Black-billed Cuckoo - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 5 Hairy Woodpecker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Northern Flicker - 5 Whip-poor-will - 4

Nighthawk - 5 Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 Kingbird - 5 Phoebe - 4 Olive-sided Flycatcher - 2 Wood Pewee - 3 Alder Flycatcher - 2 Least Flycatcher - 4 Blue Jay - 4 Northern Raven - 1 American Crow - 5 Bobolink - 1 Cowbird - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 4 Meadowlark - 4 Baltimore Oriole - 2 Rusty Blackbird - 1 Bronzed Grackle - 1 Pine Grosbeak - 1 Purple Finch - 5 American Crossbill - 1 White-winged Crossbill - 2 American Goldfinch - 5 Pine Siskin - 2 English Sparrow - 5 Vesper Sparrow - 5 Savannah Sparrow - 5 Grasshopper Sparrow - 2 Sharp-tailed Sparrow - 2 White-crowned Sparrow - 2 White-throated Sparrow - 5 Chipping Sparrow - 5 Field Sparrow - 3 Slate-colored Junco - 5 Song Sparrow - 5 Swamp Sparrow - 5 Fox Sparrow - 1 Towhee - 3

Cliff Swallow - 5 Barn Swallow 5 Tree Swallow - 5 Bank Swallow - 5 Cedar Waxwing - 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Warbling Vireo - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Black and White Warbler - 5 Nashville Warbler - 4 Tennessee Warbler - 2 Northern Parula Warbler - 5 Yellow Warbler - 5 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 Myrtle Warbler - 5 Magnolia Warbler - 5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 Bay-breasted Warbler - 3 Black-poll Warbler - 2 Blackburnian Warbler - 3 Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 Pine Warbler - 3 Oven-bird - 5 Mourning Warbler - 2 Maryland Yellowthroat - 5 Canada Warbler - 5 American Redstart - 5 Catbird - 4 House Wren - 2 Winter Wren - 5 Brown Creeper - 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4 Chickadee - 5 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 Wood Thrush - 1 Veery - 5 Olive-backed Thrush - 5 Hermit Thrush - 5 American Robin - 5 Bluebird - 5