MERRYMEETING AUDUBON
Bird-a-thon 2007
May 29

Birdathon is a great fundraising event for Merrymeeting, supporting our scholarship program for children and adult environmental education and land aquisition at Hamilton Sanctuary.

Derek Lovitch lead a team of five birders on this "Big Day" finding 121 species in the Merrymeeting Catchment Area.

It isn't too late to acknowlege their efforts by making a contribution.

To make a contribution email merrymeeting@earthlink.net

Let us know your name, address and the amount you are pledging and whther you are pledging for "scholarships," "Land for Hamilton," or both.

Pledges to the Merrymeeting Audubon birdathon team support the Merrymeeting Audubon Scholarship Program and land acquisition at Hamilton Sanctuary in West Bath.

Merrymeeting Audubon Chapter Birdathon May 29, 2007

Weather warm, 77 degrees and windy.

1. RED-THROATED LOON
2. CANADA GOOSE
3. WOOD DUCK
4. AMERICAN BLACK DUCK
5. MALLARD
6. RING- NECKED
7. COMMON EIDER
8. SURF SCOTER
9. WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
10. BLACK SCOTER
11. RED-BREASTED MERGANSER
12. WILD TURKEY
13. COMMON LOON
14. DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT
15. GREAT BLUE HERON
16. GREAT EGRET
17. SNOWY EGRET
18. GLOSSY IBIS
19. TURKEY VULTURE
20. OSPREY
21. BALD EAGLE
22. COOPER’S HAWK
23. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
24. BROAD-WINGED HAWK
25. AMERICAN KESTREL
26. VIRGINIA RAIL
27. BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
28. SEMIPALMATED PLOVER
29. PIPING PLOVER
30. KILLDEER
31. GREATER YELLOWLEGS
32. WILLET
33. SPOTTED SANDPIPER
34. RUDDY TURNSTONE
35. SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER
36. SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER
37. LAUGHING GULL
38. RING-BILLED GULL
39. HERRING GULL
40. GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
41. COMMON TERN
42. BLACK GUILLEMOT
43. ROCK PIGEON
44. MOURNING DOVE
45. BARRED OWL
46. CHIMNEY SWIFT
47. RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
48. DOWNY WOODPECKER
49. HAIRY WOODPECKER
50. NORTHERN FLICKER
51. PILEATED WOODPECKER
52. EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE
53. ALDER FLYCATCHER
54. EASTERN PHOEBE
55. GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER
56. EASTERN KINGBIRD
57. BLUE-HEADED VIREO
58. WARBLING VIREO
59. RED-EYED VIREO
60. BLUE JAY
61. AMERICAN CROW
62. TREE SWALLOW
63. BANK SWALLOW
64. CLIFF SWALLOW
65. BARN SWALLOW
66. BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE
67. TUFTED TITMOUSE
68. RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH
69. WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH
70. BROWN CREEPER
71. CAROLINA WREN
72. MARSH WREN
73. VEERY
74. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET
75. HERMIT THRUSH
76. AMERICAN ROBIN
77. GRAY CATBIRD
78. EUROPEAN STARLING
79. CEDAR WAXWING
80. NASHVILLE WARBLER
81. NORTHERN PARULA
82. YELLOW WARBLER
83. CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER
84. BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER
85. YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
86. BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER
87. MAGNOLIA WARBLER
88. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
89. PINE WARBLER
90. PRAIRIE WARBLER
91. BLACKPOLL
92. BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
93. AMERICAN REDSTART
94. OVENBIRD
95. NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH
96. COMMON YELLOWTHROAT
97. CANADA WARBLER
98. SCARLET TANAGER
99. EASTERN TOWHEE
100. CHIPPING SPARROW
101. FIELD SPARROW
102. SAVANNAH SPARROW
103. NELSON’S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW
104. SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROW
105. SONG SPARROW
106. SWAMP SPARROW
107. DARK-EYED JUNCO
108. NORTHERN CARDINAL
109. ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK
110. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD
111. BOBOLINK
112. EASTERN MEADOWLARK
113. COMMON GRACKLE
114. BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD
115. BALTIMORE ORIOLE
116. PURPLE FINCH
117. HOUSE FINCH
118. WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL
119. PINE SISKIN
120. AMERICAN GOLDFINCH
121. HOUSE SPARROW