HOW BROADMOOR ASS UDUBON S TATEWIDE MASS AUDUBON’S STATEWIDE WMILDLI FAE SANCTUARY’ SHELPS BIRDS BIRD CONSERVATION PROJECTS BIRD CONSERVATION PROJECTS < Important Bird Areas (IBAs) are sites < Broadmoor has restored 30 acres of grassland to encourage birds providing essential habitat to one or more species of breeding, wintering, that use this habitat, increasingly and/or migrating birds. The statewide BRoadMooR rare in suburban Boston. portfolio of 79 IBAs represents critical WILDLIFE SanctUARY habitat for every bird species regularly occurring in Massachusetts. < A list of What’s Been Seen by staff and visitors is updated daily with < Birds, like many Massachusetts residents, current bird sightings. flock to the coastal areas of our state. We help protect Piping Plovers, tern species, and coastal habitat at 90 sites in < Nestboxes are maintained to southeastern Massachusetts. supplement natural cavities for Eastern Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, < This important work cannot be done Black-capped Chickadees and alone. We depend on the support of 280 Eliot Street, Natick, MA 01760 our members and work closely with 508-655-2296 other birds. many other organizations, agencies, [email protected] and landowners. FIELD NOTES HOW YOU CAN HELP. Date: Time: Turn your checklists into data and contribute 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 including the Oriole Project, the Whip-poor- CHECK IT OUT will Survey, the second statewide Breeding Bird Atlas, or our sanctuary breeding bird Now available online - sanctuary bird surveys. You can also get involved in the annual checklists. Go to our website, find the sanctuary Christmas Bird Count or our annual Bird-a- you plan to visit, and print out a checklist. thon. For more information, visit our website: 2010 www.massaudubon.org. BIRD CHECKLIST FOR BROADMOOR Canada Goose Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Bluebird Field Sparrow Mute Swan Black-billed Cuckoo Veery Savannah Sparrow Wood Duck Eastern Screech-Owl Swainson’s Thrush Fox Sparrow American Black Duck Great Horned Owl Hermit Thrush Song Sparrow Mallard Barred Owl Wood Thrush Lincoln’s Sparrow Blue-winged Teal Common Nighthawk American Robin Swamp Sparrow Green-winged Teal Chimney Swift Gray Catbird White-throated Sparrow Ring-necked Duck Ruby-throated Hummingbird Northern Mockingbird White-crowned Sparrow Hooded Merganser Belted Kingfisher Brown Thrasher Dark-eyed Junco Common Merganser Red-bellied Woodpecker European Starling Northern Cardinal Ring-necked Pheasant Downy Woodpecker Cedar Waxwing Rose-breasted Grosbeak Ruffed Grouse Hairy Woodpecker Blue-winged Warbler Indigo Bunting Wild Turkey Northern Flicker Tennessee Warbler Bobolink Pied-billed Grebe Pileated Woodpecker Nashville Warbler Red-winged Blackbird Northern Bobwhite Eastern Wood-Pewee Northern Parula Eastern Meadowlark Double-crested Cormorant Willow Flycatcher Yellow Warbler Rusty Blackbird Great Blue Heron Eastern Phoebe Chestnut-sided Warbler Common Grackle Green Heron Great Crested Flycatcher Magnolia Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Black-crowned Night-Heron Eastern Kingbird Cape May Warbler Orchard Oriole Turkey Vulture Yellow-throated Vireo Black-throated Blue Warbler Baltimore Oriole Osprey Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-rumped Warbler Purple Finch Bald Eagle Warbling Vireo Black-throated Green Warbler House Finch Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-eyed Vireo Blackburnian Warbler Pine Siskin Cooper’s Hawk Blue Jay Pine Warbler American Goldfinch Red-shouldered Hawk American Crow Prairie Warbler Evening Grosbeak Broad-winged Hawk Tree Swallow Palm Warbler House Sparrow Red-tailed Hawk Bank Swallow Bay-breasted Warbler American Kestrel Barn Swallow Blackpoll Warbler Virginia Rail Black-capped Chickadee Black-and-white Warbler Killdeer Tufted Titmouse American Redstart Spotted Sandpiper Red-breasted Nuthatch Ovenbird Solitary Sandpiper White-breasted Nuthatch Northern Waterthrush Greater Yellowlegs Brown Creeper Louisiana Waterthrush Lesser Yellowlegs Carolina Wren Common Yellowthroat American Woodcock House Wren Wilson’s Warbler Ring-billed Gull Winter Wren Canada Warbler Herring Gull Marsh Wren Scarlet Tanager Great Black-backed Gull Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Towhee Rock Pigeon Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Tree Sparrow Mourning Dove Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Chipping Sparrow.