Campobello lies on the Atlantic flyway and is a convient stop over point for thousands of shore birds and other migrants. |
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This is a listing of Birding Places
located mostly in the protected area of Roosevelt International Park. Visitor Centre - mowed lawns, fields, thickets, forest edges and marine shorland. Look for Nashville, North-em Pamla, Magnolia, Black-throated Green Warblers, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Chipping Sparrow, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin. Friar's Head - open fields, thickets, mixed woods and marine shoreland. Habitats for Alder Flycatcher, Nash-ville, Magnolia, Black-throated Green, Chestnut sided Warbler (uncommon). Fire Pond Trail - coniferous and mixed woods, forest edges and pond. Bay-breasted and Wilson's Warblers, Sharp-Shinned Hawk and Winter Wren sighted in this area. Migrant Solitary Sandpiper (uncommon) at pond. Junction, Cranberry Point Drive and Tourist infor- marion Centre Road - mixed woods, thickets, alder bog. Blackburnfan, Magnolia, Wilson's Warbler (uncommon), Hairy Woodpecker. Fox Farm - open fields, thickets, forest edges, tidal flats. Alder Flycatcher, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, North- ern Pamla, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided Warbler (uncommon). Tidal flats good for migrant shorebirds. American Woodcock in low, wet areas of back trails. Cranberry Point - marine shoreland, mixed woods, regenerating forest. Good gathering area for mixed flocks of warblers with fledglings in late summer before migration. Look for uncommon Cape May Warbler. White-winged Crossbills seen here (nomadic, highly variable). Upper Duck Pond - tidal flats, estuary and marsh, mixed woods. Excellent for migrant shorebirds. Take- o point for warblers, flycatchers, nuthatches, chicka- dees, kinglets, etc., in late summer. American Black Duck, Northern Harrier seen in estuary area. |
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Copyright I.D.S 2000
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Last revised:
02/21/2002
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