[NatureNS] Shorebirds- Keji Seaside adjunct

DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed;
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:32:28 -0300
From: "Brian Starzomski" <bstarzomski@gmail.com>
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Precedence: bulk
Return-Path: <naturens-mml-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
Original-Recipient: rfc822;"| (cd /csuite/info/Environment/FNSN/MList; /csuite/lib/arch2html)"

next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects


Aimee Pelletier and I spent the weekend working in the Keji Seaside
Adjunct (Little Port Joli side), and while we focused mainly on plant
and invert surveys, I did manage to spend some time birding as well.
We had over 40 species just in the lagoon, including 6 raptor species
(of note was one Peregrine Falcon, and a Northern Harrier that chased
a Merlin for over 2kms for the Merlin's meal of Semipalmated plover-
the harrier was unsuccessful), and 13 shorebird species (>400
Semipalmated sandpipers, >250 Semipalmated plovers, >100 Black-bellied
plovers,  ~50 Short-billed dowitchers, ~100 Greater and Lesser
Yellowlegs, uncommon Killdeer, Least Sandpipers and Sanderlings; also
individual Willet, Baird's and Pectoral sandpipers, and of particular
interest, 1 Wilson's Phalarope).

Cheers,

Brian

-- 
Brian Starzomski
Post-doctoral fellow & Adjunct professor
School for Resource and Environmental Studies
and Department of Biology
Dalhousie University
6100 University Avenue, Suite 5010
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada, B3H 3J5

email: brian.starzomski@dal.ca
phone: +1 (902) 430-7416
fax: +1 (902) 494-3728
web page: myweb.dal.ca/br238551
pps arctic canada: www.dal.ca/ppscanada

next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects