Breeding Bird Surveys are run in the month of June each year. They are done on rural or logging roads with little or no traffic. The routes are 40 kilometers in length. We start 30 minutes before sunrise and listen and search for birds during a 3 minute time limit. We then drive 0.8 kilometers and repeat the process. This is done 50 times
Terrace Bay is about 220 kilometers east of Thunder Bay.
Several stops on the survey run by the paper mill.
Here is the complete list of birds we found on June 19, 2018. I have added a photo that I took during the survey of a Philadelphia Vireo in addition to some of the plants and other sights which we encountered.
Start Time 5:17 am End Time: 10:01 am
Start Temperature: 7 degrees End Temperature 17 degrees
34 SPECIES
5 Common Loon
1 Spruce Grouse
3 Pileated Woodpecker
8 Alder Flycatcher
18 Least Flycatcher
3 Philadelphia Vireo
41 Red-eyed Vireo
1 American Crow
7 Common Raven
1 Black-capped Chickadee
5 Red-breasted Nuthatch
7 Winter Wren
9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
27 Swainson’s Thrush
5 Hermit Thrush
16 American Robin
1 Clay-coloured Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
14 White-throated Sparrow
17 Ovenbird
2 Northern Waterthrush
6 Nashville Warbler
14 Mourning Warbler
4 Common Yellowthroat
4 American Redstart
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
6 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Northern Parula Warbler
9 Magnolia Warbler
14 Chestnut-sided Warbler
5 Black-throated Green Warbler
2 White-winged Crossbill
Miles Hearn