Randi Minetor - Best Easy Bird Guide Acadia National Park

We hope that Best Easy Bird Guide Acadia National Park helps you identify the most common birds in this park quickly and easily, while also telling you more about the lives of the birds you see. If this book broadens and deepens your relationship with Acadia National Park, it has done its joband if you add a bird or two to your life list during your visit, all the better. Bird well, bird hard, and bird responsibly, and dont forget to stop and enjoy the glorious surroundings that make Acadia one of the most visited national parks in America.

Avid birders for many decades, best-selling author/photographer team Randi and Nic Minetor have produced more than forty books for FalconGuides and its parent company, Globe Pequot Press, including Birding New England, Best Easy Bird Guide Cape Cod, The New England Bird Lovers Garden, and Backyard Birding: A Guide to Attracting and Identifying Birds. Their work includes guides to a number of national parks and historic cities, as well as Hiking Waterfalls in New York State, Hiking the Lower Hudson River Valley, and Hiking Through History New York.

Nics photography also appears in eight foldout Quick Reference Guides to the birds, trees, and wildflowers of New York City and New York State, and the trees and wildflowers of the Mid-Atlantic region. Randi is the author of six books that tell the true stories of people who have died in national and state parks: Death on Mount Washington, Death on Katahdin, Death in Acadia National Park, Death in Glacier National Park, Death in Zion National Park, and Death in Rocky Mountain National Park.

When not in the field, Nic is the resident lighting designer for Eastman Opera Theatre and the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester. Randi writes for a number of theatre technology and medical magazines and websites.

I cant say this often enough: Birders are some of the best people in the world, eager to share information about sightings, to enhance one anothers experience and understanding of birds in the wild, and to get everyone on the bird, whether theyre leading a field trip or just happen to be standing there looking at an interesting bird when others arrive. When we contacted birders in New England and beyond to determine the best way to find target birds to photograph for this book, they shared their knowledge willingly, gave us some terrific tips for finding particularly elusive birds, recommended places for lunch, led us to known breeding sites, and even brought us into their own backyards.

In addition, we are especially grateful to our review team of birders who helped us make certain that every photo in this book is of the bird we say it is: Dominic Sherony and Mike Tetlow. Spirited discussions around kitchen tables led to a better book.

As always, the team at FalconGuides has produced a beautiful volume: editorial director David Legere, production editor Meredith Dias, copy editor Paulette Baker, cartographer Melissa Baker, layout artist Joanna Beyer, and proofreader Ann Seifert. We are forever grateful to our literary agent, Regina Ryan, who takes extraordinary care of us so we can pursue our passions across the United States.

Finally, to the friends and family who support us in all our efforts: Ken Horowitz, Rose-Anne Moore, Martin Winer, Bruce Barton, Lisa Jaccoma, Bil Walters, Christine Tattersall, Martha and Peter Schermerhorn, Ruth Watson, John King, Cindy Blair, Paula and Rich Landis, neighbor Pam Bartemus, and all the others scattered across the country: You make every chapter fun, and there are no words strong enough to express our gratitude.

This list contains all the birds you may see in Acadia National Park and on Mount Desert Island, as listed in . Some of these birds are not pictured in this book; our Birding New England provides photos of all of these birds to help you identify the less common ones.

Canvasback

Red-headed

woodpecker

Pileated woodpecker

Red-bellied woodpecker

Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Ruby-crowned kinglet

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Red-winged blackbird

Hermit thrush

Scarlet tanager

Northern cardinal

Pine grosbeak

Rose-breasted grosbeak

Purple finch

House finch

Red crossbill

White-winged crossbill

Horned grebe

Northern shoveler

Common merganser (female)

Red-breasted merganser

Green heron

Virginia rail

Ruddy turnstone

Red knot

Red phalarope

Coopers hawk

Red-tailed hawk

Great-crested flycatcher

Barn swallow

Brown thrasher

Eastern bluebird

American robin

Wood thrush

Chestnut-sided warbler

Bay-breasted warbler

Blackburnian warbler

American redstart

Baltimore oriole

Eastern towhee

Fox sparrow

Song sparrow

Nelsons sparrow

Great-crested flycatcher

Yellow-bellied flycatcher

Horned lark

Philadelphia vireo

Northern parula

Black-throated green warbler

Magnolia warbler

Yellow-rumped warbler

Canada warbler

Cape May warbler

Chestnut-sided warbler

Blackburnian warbler (female)

American redstart (female)

Pine warbler

Prairie warbler

Palm warbler

Yellow warbler

Wilsons warbler

Nashville warbler

Mourning warbler

Common yellowthroat

Eastern meadowlark

Baltimore oriole (female)

Scarlet tanager (female)

Dickcissel

Red crossbill (female)

American goldfinch

Evening grosbeak

Wood duck

Mallard

Northern shoveler

Green-winged teal

American wigeon

Greater scaup

Common goldeneye

Common merganser

Red-breasted merganser

Green heron

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Ruby-crowned kinglet

Golden-crowned kinglet

Red-eyed vireo

Blue-headed vireo

Black-throated green warbler

Pine warbler

Prairie warbler

Tennessee warbler

Orange-crowned warbler

Nashville warbler

Mourning warbler

Scarlet tanager (female)

Snow goose, blue phase

Great blue heron

Blue-winged teal

Harlequin duck

Belted kingfisher

Purple martin

Cliff swallow

Barn swallow

Tree swallow

Blue jay

Blue-gray gnatcatcher

Eastern bluebird

Blue-headed vireo

Black-throated blue warbler

Common grackle

European starling

Indigo bunting

Purple martin

Common grackle

European starling

Horned grebe

Pied-billed grebe

Canada goose

American black duck

Mallard (female)

Gadwall (female)

Northern pintail (female)

American wigeon (female)

Eurasian wigeon (female)

Wood duck (female)

Northern shoveler (female)

Blue-winged teal (female)

Green-winged teal (female)

White-winged scoter (female)

Black scoter (female)

Surf scoter (female)

King eider (female)

Common eider (female)

Canvasback (female)

Ring-necked duck (female)

Greater scaup (female)

Common goldeneye (female)

Barrows goldeneye (female)

Bufflehead (female)

Hooded merganser (female)

Common gallinule

Leachs storm-petrel

American bittern

Virginia rail