HOW FELIX NECK MASS AUDUBON’S STATEWIDE WMILDLIASS FAE UDUBOSANCTUARYN’S SHTATEWIDEELPS BIRDS BIRD CONSERVATION PROJECTS BIRD CONSERVATION PROJECTS < Grasslands are Good Four acres of rare sandplain grassland < Important Bird Areas (IBAs) are sites habitat is being restored through clearing, providing essential habitat to one or grazing, and mowing. This newly opened more species of breeding, wintering, FELIX NECK landscape will provide habitat for and/or migrating birds. The statewide ground-nesting birds, such as bobwhite, portfolio of 79 IBAs represents critical WILDLIFE SANCTUARY woodcock and others. Our fields are also habitat for every bird species regularly maintained as grasslands to encourage occurring in Massachusetts. Eastern Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, and provide a nesting site for a pair of Osprey. < Birds, like many Massachusetts residents, Raptors use these areas to hunt for small flock to the coastal areas of our state. mammals, their preferred prey. We help protect Piping Plovers, tern species, and coastal habitat at 90 sites in southeastern Massachusetts. < Owls in Residence Barn Owls, a state-listed species of < This important work cannot be done special concern, live at Felix Neck. Two alone. We depend on the support of owl boxes, one in a field and one in a our members and work closely with FIELD NOTES dormer of the Nature Center, provide many other organizations, agencies, nesting sites for these birds, which hunt and landowners. mice in the sanctuary’s fields. Date: Time: < Our Butterfly Garden is Humming HOW YOU CAN HELP. Weather: In 2009, we redesigned and replanted Trails taken: our butterfly garden. The metamorphosis of this space included the removal of Turn your checklists into data and contribute invasive species and the planting of to Mass Audubon’s knowledge and species that encourage both butterflies understanding of Massachusetts’ birdlife and and hummingbirds to visit the garden. 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: observations. Your sightings will be stored in a database that Mass Audubon scientists can use to track birds on our sanctuaries. 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 Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary you plan to visit, and print out a checklist. Christmas Bird Count or our annual Bird-a- Off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, Edgartown MA www.massaudubon.org/felixneck thon. For more information, visit our website: Mailing address: PO Box 494 Vineyard Haven MA 02568 www.massaudubon.org. BIRD CHECKLIST FOR FELIX NECK Canada Goose Solitary Sandpiper Great Crested Flycatcher Palm Warbler Mute Swan Greater Yellowlegs Eastern Kingbird Bay-breasted Warbler Wood Duck Lesser Yellowlegs Red-eyed Vireo Blackpoll Warbler American Black Duck Willet Blue Jay Black-and-white Warbler Mallard Ruddy Turnstone American Crow American Redstart Green-winged Teal Sanderling Tree Swallow Ovenbird Common Eider Semipalmated Sandpiper Northern Rough-winged Swallow Northern Waterthrush Surf Scoter Least Sandpiper Bank Swallow Common Yellowthroat White-winged Scoter Dunlin Barn Swallow Canada Warbler Black Scoter Short-billed Dowitcher Black-capped Chickadee Scarlet Tanager Bufflehead American Woodcock Tufted Titmouse Eastern Towhee Common Goldeneye Bonaparte’s Gull Red-breasted Nuthatch American Tree Sparrow Hooded Merganser Laughing Gull White-breasted Nuthatch Chipping Sparrow Common Merganser Ring-billed Gull Brown Creeper Field Sparrow Red-breasted Merganser Herring Gull Carolina Wren Savannah Sparrow Ring-necked Pheasant Great Black-backed Gull House Wren Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Wild Turkey Least Tern Golden-crowned Kinglet Song Sparrow Northern Bobwhite Black Tern Ruby-crowned Kinglet Lincoln’s Sparrow Common Loon Roseate Tern Eastern Bluebird Swamp Sparrow Double-crested Cormorant Common Tern Hermit Thrush White-throated Sparrow Great Blue Heron Forster’s Tern Wood Thrush Dark-eyed Junco Tri-colored Heron Black Skimmer American Robin Snow Bunting Great Egret Rock Pigeon Gray Catbird Northern Cardinal Snowy Egret Mourning Dove Northern Mockingbird Rose-breasted Grosbeak Green Heron Yellow-billed Cuckoo Brown Thrasher Indigo Bunting Black-crowned Night-Heron Black-billed Cuckoo European Starling Bobolink Yellow-crowned Night Heron Barn Owl Cedar Waxwing Red-winged Blackbird Turkey Vulture Eastern Screech-Owl Northern Parula Eastern Meadowlark Osprey Common Nighthawk Yellow Warbler Common Grackle Northern Harrier Whip-poor-will Chestnut-sided Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Coopers Hawk Chimney Swift Magnolia Warbler Orchard Oriole Sharp-shinned Hawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Cape May Warbler Baltimore Oriole Red-tailed Hawk Belted Kingfisher Black-throated Blue Warbler Purple Finch American Kestrel Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-rumped Warbler House Finch Merlin Downy Woodpecker Black-throated Green Warbler American Goldfinch Virginia Rail Hairy Woodpecker Pine Warbler House Sparrow Black-bellied Plover Northern Flicker Prairie Warbler Semipalmated Plover Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Killdeer Eastern Wood-Pewee American Oystercatcher Least Flycatcher Spotted Sandpiper Eastern Phoebe .