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Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge U.S Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service PO Box 554 97 Refuge Road Limestone, ME 04750 207/328 4634 Aroostook 207/328 4660 Fax The refuge is administered from Moosehorn National National Wildlife Wildlife Refuge Please contact the Refuge Manager Refuge Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge 103 Headquarters Road Baring, ME 04694 207/454 7161 Birds Federal Relay Service for the deaf and hard-of-hearing 1 800/877 8339 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 1 800/344 WILD http://www.fws.gov September 2010 NT OF E TH TM E R IN A P T E E R D I . O S R . U M A 49 RC H 3, 18 Wood duck Dr. Thomas G. Barnes/USFWS Introduction Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge is This list follows the Fiftieth Supplement to the American located on part of the former Loring Ornithologists’ Union Checklist of North American Birds. Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine. The refuge is 5,252 acres and has Most birds are migratory and their seasonal occurrence 2,400 acres of conservation easements. and relative abundance are coded as follows: Aroostook NWR protects valuable This goose, designed wildlife habitat in northern Maine Season by J.N. "Ding" where the landscape is dominated Sp spring March – May Darling, has become by agricultural crops. Ponds and S summer June – August the symbol of the National Wildlife streams provide habitat for American F fall September – November Refuge System. Black Duck whose populations are W winter December – February decreasing. Wood ducks, ring-necked ducks and hooded mergansers are Relative Abundance also common. Relative abundance indicates how frequently you might see a bird in its favored habitat. The majority of the refuge is forested uplands, offering nesting habitat for a abundant a species which is very numerous migratory songbirds of which many c common likely to be seen or heard in suitable habitat species breed on the refuge. Warblers, u uncommon present, but not certain to be seen such as the black-throated green, o occasional seen only a few times during a season Canada, bay-breasted, Cape May and r rare may be present but not every year Blackburnian are common in spring and summer. These “neotropical * accidental less than five records migrants” breed here and winter in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and • Birds known to nest on or near the refuge South America. Habitat destruction Wood duck throughout the Western Hemisphere threatens these species. The refuge is removing military Sp S F W structures to reclaim wildlife habitat. Birds such as upland sandpipers, Swans – Geese – Ducks chestnut-sided warblers, American ___ Greater White-fronted Goose _________ r r woodcock and ruffed grouse require ___ Snow Goose ________________________ o o open fields as habitat. Removing roads, ___ Barnacle Goose* ____________________ r buildings and cement structures allows ___ Cackling Goose _____________________ r r the fields to return and forests to grow. ___ • Canada Goose ______________________ a c a r ___ Brant _____________________________ r Along the 8 miles of refuge trails birds ___ • Wood Duck _________________________ u u u of the Northern Forest such as boreal ___ Eurasian Wigeon ___________________ r chickadee, spruce grouse, three- ___ • American Wigeon ___________________ u u u toed woodpecker and black-backed ___ • Gadwall____________________________ o o o woodpecker are occasionally seen. ___ • Green-winged Teal __________________ c c c ___ • Mallard ____________________________ a c a u The refuge property is located in three ___ • American Black Duck ________________ c c c u different areas. The areas are Loring, ___ • Northern Pintail ____________________ o r o Madawaska and Chapman. The refuge ___ • Blue-winged Teal ___________________ u u u is open to visitors one-half hour before ___ • Northern Shoveler __________________ u u u sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. ___ • Redhead ___________________________ o o o Please stay out of closed areas. For ___ • Ring-necked Duck __________________ c c c more information call 207/328 4634 ___ Greater Scaup ______________________ r r or call Moosehorn National Wildlife ___ Lesser Scaup _______________________ o o Refuge Headquarters at 207/454 7161. ___ Common Eider _____________________ r r Sp S F W Sp S F W ___ Long-tailed Duck ___________________ o o Ibises ___ Black Scoter _______________________ r o ___ Glossy Ibis _________________________ r ___ Surf Scoter _________________________ r r ___ White-winged Scoter ________________ r r New World Vultures ___ • Common Goldeneye _________________ c u c o ___ • Turkey Vulture _____________________ o o o ___ Barrow's Goldeneye _________________ o o r ___ Black Vulture* ______________________ r ___ Bufflehead _________________________ o o ___ • Hooded Merganser __________________ c c c r Osprey - Hawks – Eagles ___ • Red-breasted Merganser _____________ o o r ___ • Osprey ____________________________ c c u ___ • Common Merganser _________________ c c c u ___ Golden Eagle _______________________ r r ___ • Ruddy Duck ________________________ o o o ___ • Bald Eagle _________________________ c c c c ___ • Northern Harrier ___________________ c c c r Gallinaceous Birds ___ • Sharp-shinned Hawk ________________ u u u o ___ Ring-necked Pheasant _______________ o o o o ___ Cooper's Hawk _____________________ o o r ___ • Wild Turkey ________________________ u u u u ___ • Northern Goshawk __________________ u u u u ___ • Spruce Grouse ______________________ o o o o ___ • Red-shouldered Hawk _______________ o r o ___ • Ruffed Grouse ______________________ c c c c ___ • Broad-winged Hawk _________________ c c c ___ Willow Ptarmigan* __________________ r ___ • Red-tailed Hawk ____________________ u u u o ___ Rough-legged Hawk _________________ u u u Loons ___ Red-throated Loon _________________ r r Falcons ___ • Common Loon _____________________ c c c ___ • American Kestrel ___________________ c c c ___ • Merlin _____________________________ u u u o ___ • Peregrine Falcon ____________________ o r o Rails ___ • Virginia Rail _______________________ u u u ___ • Sora ______________________________ u u u ___ Yellow Rail _________________________ r r ___ • Common Moorhen __________________ r r r Ruffed grouse ___ • American Coot______________________ r r r Robert Savannah Plovers ___ Black-bellied Plover _________________ o Grebes ___ American Golden-Plover _____________ o ___ • Pied-billed Grebe ___________________ u u u ___ Semipalmated Plover ________________ o o u ___ Horned Grebe ______________________ o o ___ • Killdeer ___________________________ c c c ___ Red-necked Grebe __________________ o r o ___ Northern Lapwing __________________ r Cormorants Sandpipers ___ Double-crested Cormorant ___________ c c c ___ American Avocet* ___________________ r ___ Great Cormorant ___________________ r r ___ • American Woodcock _________________ u u u ___ • Common Snipe _____________________ c c c ___ Short-billed Dowitcher _______________ o o o Bitterns – Herons – Egrets ___ • Upland Sandpiper ___________________ u u u ___ • Great Blue Heron ___________________ c c c r ___ Greater Yellowlegs __________________ u c c ___ Great Egret ________________________ r r r ___ Lesser Yellowlegs ___________________ c c c ___ Cattle Egret _______________________ r ___ Solitary Sandpiper __________________ c u c ___ Green Heron _______________________ o o ___ • Spotted Sandpiper __________________ c c c ___ • Black-crowned Night-Heron __________ o o o ___ Whimbrel __________________________ o ___ • American Bittern ___________________ u u u ___ Semipalmated Sandpiper _____________ o u u Sp S F W Sp S F W ___ Least Sandpiper ____________________ u u u ___ Boreal Owl _________________________ r ___ White-rumped Sandpiper ____________ r u u ___ Long-eared Owl ____________________ r r r r ___ Pectoral Sandpiper __________________ r u u ___ • Short-eared Owl ____________________ r r r r ___ Dunlin _____________________________ r r u ___ Northern Hawk Owl _________________ r r ___ Wilson's Phalarope __________________ r Nightjars Gulls ___ • Common Nighthawk _________________ o u u ___ • Bonaparte's Gull ____________________ u u u ___ Whip-poor-will ______________________ r r ___ • Ring-billed Gull _____________________ a c a ___ Herring Gull _______________________ a u a o Swifts ___ Glaucous Gull _______________________ r r ___ • Chimney Swift ______________________ u u u ___ Iceland Gull ________________________ o o o ___ Lesser Black-backed Gull ____________ r r Hummingbirds ___ Great Black-backed Gull _____________ a u a o ___ • Ruby-throated Hummingbird _________ c c c Kingfisher Terns ___ • Belted Kingfisher ___________________ c c c r ___ Black Tern _________________________ o o o ___ • Common Tern ______________________ c c u Woodpeckers ___ • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker _____________ c c c ___ • Downy Woodpecker _________________ c c c c ___ • Hairy Woodpecker __________________ c c c c ___ • Three-toed Woodpecker ______________ o o o o ___ • Black-backed Woodpecker ____________ u u u u ___ • Northern Flicker ___________________ c c c r ___ • Pileated Woodpecker ________________ u u u u Tyrant Flycatchers ___ • Olive-sided Flycatcher _______________ u u ___ • Eastern Wood-Pewee ________________ c c u ___ • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher _____________ u u ___ • Alder Flycatcher ____________________ c c u ___ Willow Flycatcher ___________________ o o Great Horned Owl ___ • Least Flycatcher ____________________ c c u ___ • Eastern Phoebe ____________________ c c c r Auks - Puffins ___ Dovekie* __________________________ r Pigeons - Doves ___
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