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Birding

Treat yourself to the variety and abundance of feathered activity here. Learn about the birds that live and breed in the thousands of acres around Lunksoos Camps. (Birds seen during irruptions and those for which this area is the top of their range are not listed.)

Bird Table

BIRDS IN OUR AREA Click each Name to learn about the bird and hear it's song on Cornell University's Web site.
Bitterns & Herons	Blackbirds - summer (breeding)	Chickadees - all year
American Bittern - summer (breeding) Great Blue Heron - three seasons*	Common Grackle Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird	Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee
Finches	Flycatchers - summer (breeding)	Grouse - all year
American Goldfinch - summer (breeding) Evening Grosbeak Pine Siskin Purple Finch White-winged Crossbill	Eastern Phoebe Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	Ruffed Grouse Spruce Grouse
Hawks & Eagles	Hummingbirds - summer (breeding)	Jays & Crows - all year
Bald Eagle - three seasons* Northern Goshawk - all year Northern Harrier - summer (breeding) Osprey - summer (breeding) Red-shouldered Hawk-summer (breeding) Rough-legged Hawk - winter Sharp-shinned Hawk - summer (breeding)	Ruby-throated Hummingbird - summer (breeding)	American Crow Blue Jay Common Raven Gray Jay
Kingfishers	Loons	New World Sparrows - summer (breeding)
Belted Kingfisher	Common Loon - three seasons*	Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow
Nuthatches	Owls	Swallows - summer (breeding)
Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch	Barred Owl - all year Great Horned Owl - all year Long-eared Owl - all year Northern Saw-whet - all year Snowy Owl - winter	Barn Swallow Tree Swallow
Thrushes - summer (breeding)	Warblers - summer (breeding)	Woodpeckers
American Robin Hermit Thrush Swainson's Thrush Veery Wood Thrush	American Redstart Bay-breasted Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Cape May Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Common Yellowthroat Magnolia Warbler Mourning Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Northern Waterthrush Ovenbird Palm Warbler Tennessee Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler	Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - summer (breeding)
Wrens - summer (breeding)	More Feathered Friends
House Wren Winter Wren	Cedar Waxwing - summer (breeding) Mourning Dove - three seasons*
*three seasons = spring, summer, fall

Resources: These two sites are chock full of photos and helpful information:

Mainebirding.net - an excellent source of news, alerts and events for birding in the state of Maine
Cornell University Lab of Ornithology - an exceptional presentation of bird data, linked to below, by bird

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