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From: sandee@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: going to maine coast, what should I look for?
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Date: 6 Jun 90 12:51:30 GMT
References: <1990May31.170926.3878@cbnewsl.att.com>
Reply-To: sandee@sun13.UUCP (Daan Sandee)
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In article <1990May31.170926.3878@cbnewsl.att.com> nora@cbnewsl.att.com (nora.y.mclaughlin) writes:
>In 1.5 weeks, I am going on vacation to Maine.  I'll be by the coast
>and thought that surely there must be some good birds to check out.
>Any comments on what may be special to look for there. I hear there
>are puffins some where up there.
>Nora

Pierson and Pierson, "Birding on the coast of Maine", or some such title.
Available in local bookstores, or call the ABA at 1-800-634-1776. They
accept credit card orders.
The birding attractions in Maine depend on where you come from. For us
Southerners, it is the breeding warblers (Blackburnian, Bay-breasted,
Blue-winged, Canada, Blackpoll) and the sea birds (Common Eider and
Black Guillemot are common). Acadia Nat.Park is a good place.
For the advanced birder, an opportunity to have a shot at Empids. Here we
get them in migration, but they're silent, so unidentified.
Barney Norton runs a birder's boat out to Machias Seal Island, which has the
only Atlantic puffin colony in the U.S. plus Razorbill, Arctic Tern, and Common
Murre. You will need a reservation ; I'll email his phone number 
tomorrow (unless somebody on the net has it by the hand?).

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045