How Moose Hill ass udubon s tatewide Mass Audubon’s Statewide WMildli fAe Sanctuary’ SHelps Birds Bird Conservation Projects Bird Conservation Projects This entire sanctuary is managed < Important Bird Areas (IBAs) are sites for birds. providing essential habitat to one or more species of breeding, wintering, moose hill < By protecting almost 2000 acres of and/or migrating birds. The statewide forest, Moose Hill provides critical portfolio of 79 IBAs represents critical Wildlife Sanctuary space for interior forest species such habitat for every bird species regularly as eastern wood peewee, wood thrush occurring in Massachusetts. and other birds. < Birds, like many Massachusetts residents, < Old field habitat is maintained through flock to the coastal areas of our state. timed mowing. These fields contain We help protect Piping Plovers, tern nest boxes that provide nest sites for species, and coastal habitat at 90 sites in eastern bluebirds, tree swallows and southeastern Massachusetts. other cavity nesters.

< Volunteers monitor nest boxes yearly < This important work cannot be done and participate in breeding bird census. alone. We depend on the support of 293 Moose Hill Street, Sharon, MA 02067 our members and work closely with < We offer educational programs on 781-784-5691 many other organizations, agencies, birds and lead [email protected] and landowners. birding programs. Field Notes How you can help.

Date: Turn your checklists into data and contribute Time: to Mass Audubon’s knowledge and Weather: understanding of Massachusetts’ birdlife and Trails taken: the birds of our wildlife sanctuaries. Keep a list of birds on your walk and log on to www.massaudubon.org/ebird to submit your observations. Your sightings will be stored in a database that Mass Audubon scientists can use to track birds on our sanctuaries. Observations: Help us collect important data by participating in Mass Audubon bird monitoring programs check it out including the Oriole Project, the Whip-poor- will Survey, the second statewide Breeding Now available online - sanctuary bird Bird Atlas, or our sanctuary breeding bird checklists. Go to our website, find the sanctuary surveys. You can also get involved in the annual you plan to visit, and print out a checklist. Christmas Bird Count or our annual Bird-a- thon. For more information, visit our website: 2010 www.massaudubon.org. Bird Checklist for Moose Hill  Canada Goose  Pileated Woodpecker  Yellow Warbler  Savannah Sparrow  Wood Duck  Eastern Wood-Pewee  Chestnut-sided Warbler  Fox Sparrow  American Black Duck  Least Flycatcher  Magnolia Warbler  Song Sparrow  Mallard  Eastern Phoebe  Cape May Warbler  Lincoln’s Sparrow  Ring-necked Duck  Great Crested Flycatcher  Black-throated Blue Warbler  Swamp Sparrow  Bufflehead  Eastern Kingbird  Yellow-rumped Warbler  White-throated Sparrow  Hooded Merganser  Northern Shrike  Black-throated Green Warbler  White-crowned Sparrow  Common Merganser  Blue-headed Vireo  Blackburnian Warbler  Dark-eyed Junco  Ring-necked Pheasant  Yellow-throated Vireo  Pine Warbler  Northern Cardinal  Ruffed Grouse  Warbling Vireo  Prairie Warbler  Rose-breasted Grosbeak  Great Blue Heron  Philadelphia Vireo  Palm Warbler  Indigo Bunting  Green Heron  Red-eyed Vireo  Bay-breasted Warbler  Bobolink  Turkey Vulture  Blue Jay  Blackpoll Warbler  Red-winged Blackbird  Osprey  American Crow  Black-and-white Warbler  Rusty Blackbird  Sharp-shinned Hawk  Tree Swallow  American Redstart  Common Grackle  Cooper’s Hawk  Barn Swallow  Worm-eating Warbler  Brown-headed Cowbird  Broad-winged Hawk  Black-capped Chickadee  Ovenbird  Orchard Oriole  Red-tailed Hawk  Tufted Titmouse  Northern Waterthrush  Baltimore Oriole  American Kestrel  Red-breasted Nuthatch  Mourning Warbler  Pine Grosbeak  Wild Turkey  White-breasted Nuthatch  Common Yellowthroat  Purple Finch  Killdeer  Brown Creeper  Wilson’s Warbler  House Finch  Spotted Sandpiper  Carolina Wren  Canada Warbler  Red Crossbill  American Woodcock  House Wren  Yellow-breasted Chat  White-winged Crossbill  Ring-billed Gull  Winter Wren  Scarlet Tanager  Common Redpoll  Herring Gull  Golden-crowned Kinglet  Eastern Towhee  Pine Siskin  Great Black-backed Gull  Ruby-crowned Kinglet  American Tree Sparrow  American Goldfinch  Rock Pigeon  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  Chipping Sparrow  Evening Grosbeak  Mourning Dove  Eastern Bluebird  Field Sparrow  House Sparrow  Yellow-billed Cuckoo  Veery  Vesper Sparrow  Black-billed Cuckoo  Swainson’s Thrush  Eastern Screech-Owl  Hermit Thrush  Great Horned Owl  Wood Thrush  ______ Barred Owl  American Robin  ______  Long-eared Owl Gray Catbird  ______ Common Nighthawk  Northern Mockingbird   Chimney Swift  Brown Thrasher ______ Ruby-throated Hummingbird  European Starling  ______ Belted Kingfisher  Cedar Waxwing  ______ Red-bellied Woodpecker  Blue-winged Warbler  ______ Downy Woodpecker  Tennessee Warbler  ______ Hairy Woodpecker  Nashville Warbler  Northern Flicker  Northern Parula