A Checklist of the Birds of
MONHEGAN ISLAND and NEARBY MAINLAND MAINE

Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
  Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep
  1998 2000 2001 2001 2003
Canada Goose x x   x  
Wood Duck x     x x
American Black Duck     x x x
Mallard x x x x x
Green-winged Teal   x     x
King Eider   x      
Common Eider x x x x x
Surf Scoter   x   x x
White-winged Scoter x x   x x
Black Scoter   x x x  
Common Goldeneye x        
Ring-necked Pheasant   x x x  
Common Loon x x x x x
Pied-billed Grebe   x      
Red-necked Grebe x x     x
Greater Shearwater     x x x
Northern Gannet x x x x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x x x
Great Cormorant x x x x x
Magnificent Frigatebird         x
Great Blue Heron x x x x x
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron         x
Osprey x x x x x
Bald Eagle     x x x
Northern Harrier x x   x  
Sharp-shinned Hawk x x x x x
Cooper's Hawk x x x    
American Kestrel x x x x x
Merlin x x x x x
Peregrine Falcon x x x x x
Sora x        
Black-bellied Plover x x x   x
Semipalmated Plover   x     x
Killdeer       x x
Greater Yellowlegs x x x x x
Lesser Yellowlegs         x
Solitary Sandpiper         x
Spotted Sandpiper x   x   x
Whimbrel   x     x
Sanderling     x    
Short-billed Dowitcher x        
Wilson's Snipe   x      
American Woodcock x     x  
Pomarine Jaeger         x
Parasitic Jaeger     x   x
Laughing Gull x   x    
Bonaparte's Gull     x   x
Ring-billed Gull       x x
Herring Gull x x x x x
Glaucous Gull   x      
Great Black-backed Gull x x x x x
Black-legged Kittiwake     x   x
Black Guillemot x x x x x
Rock Pigeon x       x
Mourning Dove x x x x x
Yellow-billed Cuckoo x x   x  
Ruby-throated Hummingbird   x   x  
Belted Kingfisher x x x x x
Red-headed Woodpecker x     x  
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker x x x x x
Downy Woodpecker x x x x x
Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker x x x x x
Eastern Wood-Pewee x x   x  
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher     x    
Least Flycatcher x x x x  
Eastern Phoebe x x x x  
Western Kingbird x        
White-eyed Vireo   x      
Blue-headed Vireo x x x x  
Warbling Vireo x        
Philadelphia Vireo x x      
Red-eyed Vireo x x x x x
Blue Jay x x x x x
American Crow x x x x x
Common Raven x x x x x
Cliff Swallow       x  
Black-capped Chickadee x x x x x
Red-breasted Nuthatch x x x x x
White-breasted Nuthatch     x x  
Brown Creeper x x   x x
Carolina Wren   x x x  
House Wren   x      
Winter Wren x x x x  
Marsh Wren x        
Golden-crowned Kinglet x x x x x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x x x x x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher         x
Veery x        
Swainson's Thrush x        
Hermit Thrush   x   x  
American Robin x x x x x
Gray Catbird x x x x x
Northern Mockingbird x x   x x
Brown Thrasher x x x x  
European Starling x x x x x
American Pipit     x x  
Cedar Waxwing x x x x x
Blue-winged Warbler   x      
Tennessee Warbler x x x    
Nashville Warbler x x x x x
Northern Parula x x x x  
Yellow Warbler x x x x x
Chestnut-sided Warbler     x x  
Magnolia Warbler x x x x  
Black-throated Blue Warbler x x   x  
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler x x x x  
Black-throated Green Warbler x x x x x
Blackburnian Warbler   x     x
Pine Warbler x   x x  
Prairie Warbler       x  
Palm Warbler x x x x x
Bay-breasted Warbler x     x  
Blackpoll Warbler x x x    
Black-and-white Warbler x x x x  
American Redstart x x x x  
Prothonotary Warbler x        
Northern Waterthrush     x x  
Common Yellowthroat x x x x x
Hooded Warbler x        
Wilson's Warbler x   x x x
Canada Warbler   x      
Yellow-breasted Chat     x   x
Scarlet Tanager x     x  
Eastern Towhee x x x   x
Chipping Sparrow x x x x x
Clay-colored Sparrow x   x x x
Lark Sparrow   x x x x
Savannah Sparrow x x x    
Song Sparrow x x x x x
Lincoln's Sparrow x x x x  
Swamp Sparrow x x x x  
White-throated Sparrow x x x x  
White-crowned Sparrow x x   x  
Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco x   x x  
Northern Cardinal x x x x x
Rose-breasted Grosbeak x x x x  
Blue Grosbeak   x   x x
Indigo Bunting x x   x  
Dickcissel x x      
Bobolink x x x x x
Red-winged Blackbird x x x    
Rusty Blackbird x x x x  
Common Grackle   x x x x
Baltimore Oriole x x x x x
Purple Finch     x x  
House Finch         x
White-winged Crossbill   x      
Pine Siskin   x   x  
American Goldfinch x x x x x
House Sparrow x x     x
           
Total Species 102 103 93 98 79

x = observed     d = dead
  Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep
  1998 2000 2001 2001 2003
MAMMALS          
Finback Whale         x
Minke Whale         x
Pilot Whale x        
Atlantic White-sided Dolphin x x      
Harbor Porpoise     x x x
Harbor Seal x x x x x
Gray Seal   x     x
Eastern Gray Squirrel         m
Eastern Chipmunk         m
Muskrat         x
Norway Rat         x
           
REPTILES          
Maritime Garter Snake x x   x  
Smooth Green Snake   x x    
Northern Redbelly Snake         x
           
NATURAL PHENOMENA          
Jupiter w/ 2 bands and 4 moons x        
Migrants flying across the moon x        
Falling Stars x x      
Crescent Moon   x     x
Hurricane Juan         x
           
INVERTEBRATES          
Sea Star   x      
Mourning Cloak x x x x x
Red Admiral   x x x x
Monarch x x x x x
Cabbage Butterfly x x x x x
Sulphur Butterfly     x x  
Painted Lady     x x x
           

A Checklist of the Birds of MONHEGAN ISLAND and NEARBY MAINLAND MAINE
Compiled by Robert M. Schutsky
Bird Treks, 216 Spring Lane
Peach Bottom, PA USA 17563-4008
717-548-3303 info@birdtreks.com
www.birdtreks.com
Created by Valerie K. M. Schutsky

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