Birds of Acadia National Park This checklist covers the entire Acadia National Park archipelago from Schoodic Point east, to Isle au Haut west, and Mount Desert Rock south, including all of Mount Desert Island. Each species' status throughout the year is represented by a bar graph. Species that have been recorded five or more times LOONS JFMAMJJASOND within the Acadia National Park area are graphed in Red-throated Loon C,P this checklist. Accidental species are listed separately. Common Loon b Please report details of unusual sightings to Acadia GREBES ional Park naturalists. Pied-billed Grebe b Horned Grebe C Red-necked Grebe C ABUNDANCE DESIGNATIONS SHEARWATERS Northern Fulmar * P Cory's Shearwater P ABUNDANT: widespread and easily Greater Shearwater * P found in proper habitat in large Sooty Shearwater * P Manx Shearwater P numbers. COMMON: widespread and easily STORM-PETRELS found in proper habitat, but generally Wilson's Storm-Petrel * P Leach's Storm-Petrel b I not in large numbers. UNCOMMON: widespread in very GANNETS small numbers or common only within Northern Gannet C,P very restricted habitat. CORMORANTS RARE: there may be no records in Great Cormorant b C,I Double-creasted Cormorant b some years, but a general pattern of occurrence is evident. BITTERNS AND HERONS * IRREGULAR: may be intermittently American Bittern b F Least Bittern b F abundant, common or absent. Great Blue Heron b b BREEDS: confirmed breeding since Great Egret S 1965. Snowy Egret S Little Blue Heron S Cattle Egret o Green-backed Heron b HABITAT Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Species restricted to one or two habitat IBISES types are assigned code letters based Glossy Ibis on the following key: GEESE AND DUCKS Snow Goose B - Brushy areas M - Mixed forest Brant * C,I C - Coastal O - Open fields Canada Goose b D - Deciduous forest P - Pelagic Wood Duck b F,L E - Evergreen R - Residential Green-winged Teal b American Black Duck b F - Fresh marsh, bogs S - Salt marsh Mallard b I - - Offshore islands - Tidal zones Northern Pintail L - - Lakes Blue-winged Teal b American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck b L JFMAMJJASOND -1987- JFMAMJJASON Lesser Golden-Plover JFMAMJJASOND O,T Semipalmated Plover T Greater Scaup C Killdeer b O,T Common Eider b C,I King Eider C SANDPIPERS Harlequin Duck I Greater Yellowlegs Oldsquaw C Lesser Yellowlegs Black Scoter C Solitary Sandpiper Surf Scoter C Willet White-winged Scoter C Spotted Sandpiper b Common Goldeneye C,L Whimbrel O,T Barrow's Goldeneye C Hudsonian Godwit Bufflehead C,L b Ruddy Turnstone T Hooded Merganser Red Knot T Common Merganser b C,L Sanderling T Red-breasted Merganser b C,L Semipalmated Sandpiper S,T Ruddy Duck Least Sandpiper S,T White-rumped Sandpiper T VULTURES Pectoral Sandpiper S Turkey Vulture Purple Sandpiper * C,T Dunlin I,T HAWKS AND EAGLES Short-billed Dowitcher S,T Osprey b Bald Eagle b Common Snipe American Woodcock b Northern Harrier b b Red-necked Phalarope P Sharp-shinned Hawk Red Phalarope P Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk b JAEGERS, GULLS AND TERNS Red-shouldered Hawk Pomarine Jaeger P Broad-winged Hawk b Red-tailed Hawk b Parasitic Jaeger P Rough-legged Hawk Laughing Gull b C,T Common Black-headed Gull C,T Golden Eagle Bonaparte's Gull C,T Ring-billed Gull FALCONS American Kestrel b Herring Gull b Iceland Gull Merlin Glaucous Gull Peregrine Falcon Great Black-backed Gull b Gyrfalcon Black-legged Kittiwake C,P Royal Tern C,P GROUSE Roseate Tern b b C Ring-necked Pheasant Common Tern b E b C,P Spruce Grouse b Arctic Tern b C.P Ruffed Grouse Least Tern C,P Black Tern RAILS AND ALLIES Virginia Rail b F Sora b F ALCIDS Purple Gallinule F Dovekie * P Common Moorhen (Gallinule) F Common Murre P American Coot F,L Thick-billed Murre P Razorbill P Black Guillemot b C,I PLOVERS Black-bellied Plover Atlantic Puffin P JFMAMJJASOND DOVES Rock Dove b Mourning Dove b JFMAMJJASOND UCKOOS JFMAMJJASOND JFMAMJJASOND Black-billed Cuckoo b Tree Swallow b Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow b WLS Cliff Swallow b Great Horned Owl b Barn Swallow b Snowy Owl Northern Hawk-Owl JAYS AND CROWS Barred Owl Gray Jay b E,M Long-eared Owl b Blue Jay b Short-eared Owl American Crow b Northern Saw-whet Owl b E,M Common Raven b IGHTJARS CHICKADEES Common Nighthawk b Black-capped Chickadee b Whip-poor-will b Boreal Chickadee b E,M SWIFTS NUTHATCHES Chimney Swift b R Red-breasted Nuthatch b White-breasted Nuthatch b D,R HUMMINGBIRDS Ruby-throated Hummingbird b CREEPERS Brown Creeper b KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher b WRENS Carolina Wren WOODPECKERS House Wren b B,R Red-headed Woodpecker Winter Wren b E,M Yellow-bellied Sapsucker b Sedge Wren b F,O Downy Woodpecker b Marsh Wren Hairy Woodpecker b Three-toed Woodpecker E,M THRUSHES AND ALLIES Black-backed Woodpecker b E,M Golden-crowned Kinglet b Northern Flicker b Ruby-crowned Kinglet b Pileated Woodpecker b Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird b FLYCATCHERS Veery b Olive-sided Flycatcher b E,M Gray-cheecked Thrush Eastern Wood-Pewee b Swainson's Thrush b Yellow-bellied Flycatcher b Hermit Thrush b Alder Flycatcher b Wood Thrush b Least Flycatcher b American Robin b Eastern Phoebe b Varied Thrush Great Crested Flycatcher b Western Kingbird MIMICS Eastern Kingbird b Gray Catbird b Northern Mockingbird LARKS Brown Thrasher b Horned Lark O,T PIPITS SWALLOWS Water Pipit O,T Purple Martin JFMAMJJASOND JFMAMJJASOND WAXWINGS JFMAMJJASOND JFMAMJJASOND Bohemian Waxwing Rose-breasted Grosbeak b Cedar Waxwing b Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting b SHRIKES Dickcissel Northern Shrike NEW WORLD SPARROWS AND ALLIES STARLINGS Rufous-sided Towhee b European Starling b American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow b VIREOS Clay-colored Sparrow Solitary Vireo b Field Sparrow b Warbling Vireo b Vesper Sparrow Philadelphia Vireo Lark Sparrow Red-eyed Vireo b Savannah Sparrow b Sharp-tailed Sparrow b WOOD WARBLERS Fox Sparrow Blue-winged Warbler Song Sparrow b Golden-winged Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow b F Tennessee Warbler b Swamp Sparrow b B,F Orange-crowned Warbler White-throated Sparrow b Nashville Warbler b White-crowned Sparrow B,R Northern Parula b Dark-eyed Junco b Yellow Warbler b Lapland Longspur 0,T Chestnut-sided Warbler b Snow Bunting 0,T Magnolia Warbler b Cape May Warbler b BLACKBIRDS AND ORIOLES Black-throated Blue Warbler b Bobolink b Yellow-rumped Warbler b Red-winged Blackbird b Black-throated Green Warbler b Eastern Meadowlark b O,B Blackburnian Warbler b Rusty Blackbird Pine Warbler Common Grackle b Prairie Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird b Palm Warbler b Orchard Oriole Bay-breasted Warbler b Northern Oriole b Blackpoll Warbler b Black-and-white Warbler b FINCHES American Redstart b Pine Grosbeak * Ovenbird b Purple Finch b* Northern Waterthrush b House Finch R Mourning Warbler Red Crossbill b* E Common Yellowthroat b White-winged Crossbill b E Wilson's Warbler b Common Redpoll * Canada Warbler b Pine Siskin b* Yellow-breasted Chat American Goldfinch b Evening Grosbeak b* TANAGERS Summer Tanager OLD WORLD SPARROWS Scarlet Tanager b House Sparrow b R JFMAMJJASOND CARDINALS AND ALLIES Northern Cardinal b B,R JFMAMJJASOND Species reported less than five times are listed below. Eared Grebe White-winged Tern Red-billed Tropicbird Black Skimmer Magnificent Frigatebird Common Barn-Owl Tricolored (Louisiana) Heron Great Gray Owl Tundra Swan Eastern Screech Owl Greater White-fronted Goose Boreal Owl Gadwall Chuck-will's-widow Eurasian Wigeon Red-bellied Woodpecker Canvasback Acadian Flycatcher Lesser Scaup Willow Flycatcher Swainson's Hawk Say's Phoebe Clapper Rail Ash-throated Flycatcher King Rail Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Sandhill Crane Tufted Titmouse Piping Plover Northern Wheatear American Oystercatcher Loggerhead Shrike American Avocet White-eyed Vireo Western Sandpiper Yellow-throated Warbler Baird's Sandpiper Cerulean Warbler Curlew Sandpiper Prothonotary Warbler Stilt Sandpiper Worm-eating Warbler Buff-breasted Sandpiper Louisiana Waterthrush Long-billed Dowitcher Kentucky Warbler Long-tailed Jaeger Connecticut Warbler South-Polar Skua Hooded Warbler Little Gull Lazuli Bunting Lesser Black-backed Gull Painted Bunting Sabine's Gull Lark Bunting Ivory Gull Grasshopper Sparrow Forster's Tern LeConte's Sparrow Sooty Tern Seaside Sparrow Harris' Sparrow Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Hoary Redpoll National Park Service U.S. Department Of The Interior