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From: christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson)
Subject: Cape May highlights
Message-ID: <1991May8.213026.4009@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Sender: christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson)
Reply-To: christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson)
Organization: City College of New York - Science Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 8 May 91 21:30:26 GMT

	Highlights of a 3-day trip to Cape May, 5/5-5/8

Least bittern		Great Egret
Snowy Egret		Little Blue Heron
Tricolored (Louisiana) heron
Cattle egret		black-crowned night heron
glossy ibis		mute swan
snow goose		brant
canada goose		wood duck
black duck		pintail
blue-winged teal	gadwall
TV			osprey
merlin			clapper rail
Plovers:
black-bellied    semi-palmated
Sandpipers:
solitary	sami-palmated
baird's		purple
stilt

oystercatcher		greater & lesser yellowlegs
willet			whimbrel
red knot		dunlin	
short-billed dowitcher
wilson's phalarope	gulls & terns (nothing extraordinary)
kingbird		br. creeper
sedge wren		house wren
marsh wren
white-eyed, yellow-throated, & warbling vireos
magnolia warbler	blue-winged warbler
yellow-rumped warbler	prarie warbler
redstart	yellowthroat
chat		indigo bunting
sharp-tailed sparrow

TRIP'S BEST BIRDS:
Red-throated, common, and yellow-billed loons (!!!)
(Yellow-billed loon is in Stone Harbor, behind The Wetlands Institute.
Go all the way back to the small building by the channel).

Best,
chris

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