A Survey of Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Fauna in Maine: East Coastal and Eastern Interior Regions (1999-2000)
Weik AP, deMaynadier P, Hodgman TP. 2001. A Survey of Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Fauna in Maine: East Coastal and Eastern Interior Regions (1999-2000). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Bangor, ME
From the abstract: "The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) in collaboration with the Maine Natural Areas Program has completed a survey of rare, threatened, and endangered plant and animal species and natural communities across the Central Interior (1997-1998), Midcoast (1998), Penobscot Bay (1998), East Coastal (1999), and Eastern Interior (1999) ecological regions (Fig. 1). This report summarizes the results of rare animal surveys during the 1999 field season, which covered the East Coastal and Eastern Interior eceoregions. After reviewing historical records and known habitat relationships for rare fauna in these ecoregions, select species surveys were initiated including projects involving peatland and riverine dragonflies and damselflies (~20 Endangered, Threatened, and Special Concern species), peatland butterflies and moths (six target species), mayflies (five target species), freshwater mussels (five target species), wetland birds (nine target species), grassland birds (five target species), Barrow's goldeneye, and bald eagle. In addition to reconfirming several historical records, the project successfully documented a total of 39 (27 tracked) new occurrences of rare species from 24 municipalities across the ecoregions (Table 1). Results from this study significantly improve MDIFW's understanding of the status and habitat relationships of several rare and potentially vulnerable animal species in eastern Maine." Goldeneye surveys 20 January - 28 February 1999 included the following areas: Schoodic Peninsula, Indian Point, Hadley Point, St. Croix Island, Bartlett Narrows (see Table 1, page 77). No data on specifically what was found at these sites. Bald Eagle nesting summaries for 1999 are presented on page 89 and includes summaries of all nests monitored by Maine Fish and Wildlife. Sedge wren surveys were conducted at Ripple Pond, Breakneck Pond, Upper Hadlock Pond, Northeast Creek, Bass Harbor Marsh during 1999. Table 4 on page 111 notes that Sedge Wrens were last confirmed at Bass Harbor Marsh in 1971 and at Northeast Creek in 1996; no sedge wrens were detected at these sites during 1999 survey visits. Saltmarsh birds were surveyed at Bass Harbor Marsh, Thompson Island Marshes, and Northeast Creek during June-August 1999. No site specific survey results are given for these locations. /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Indian Point/Hadley Point/Bartlett Narrows/Ripple Pond/Breakneck Pond/Upper Hadlock Pond/Northeast Creek/Bass Harbor Marsh/SCHOODIC PENINSULA/Schoodic Point/Frazier Point/ISLANDS/Thompson Island/ST CROIX ISLAND/
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Weik, Andrew; deMaynadier, Phillip; Hodgman, Thomas
- Date of Issue
- 2001-05-11
- Publisher
- Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Bartlett Narrows, Bass Harbor Marsh, Breakneck Pond, Frazier Point, Hadley Point, Hatching Success, Indian Point, Inventory, Islands, LAKE, Marine, Monitoring, Mount Desert Island, Nests & Nesting, Northeast Creek, Pond, Rare Species, Ripple Pond, River, Schoodic Peninsula, Schoodic Point, Shorebirds, ST CROIX ISLAND, Stream, Terrestrial, Thompson Island, Threatened & Endangered Species, Upper Hadlock Pond, Wetland