BANGOR – Audubon volunteers recently led 161 Bangor area residents on bird walks, helping them find and identify 64 species of birds within the city of Bangor. Walk locations were the Bangor Land Trust’s West Penjajawoc Preserve, Walden-Parke Preserve, the Kenduskeag Stream Trail and Mount Hope Cemetery.

Bird-watchers got good views of the yellowthroat, which perched and sang nearby. A house wren outdid himself in singing from a high perch. Leaders were delighted with close looks at a singing Canada warbler.

Volunteer Audubon expert birders were Hope Brogunier, Joni Dunn, Jim Hinds, Tom Hodgman, Bob Milardo, Elizabeth Payne, Lucy Quimby, Jim Zeman and Kathy Zeman. Audubon volunteer Sharon Jackiw coordinated their efforts and scheduled the bird walks.

The 64 species of birds found in Bangor are loon, cormorant, pied-billed grebe, mallard, hooded merganser, Canada goose, herring gull, ring-billed gull, spotted sandpiper, solitary sandpiper, mourning dove, ruby-throated hummingbird, chimney swift, yellow-bellied sapsucker, flicker, Downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, pileated woodpecker, kingfisher, phoebe, great crested flycatcher, wood peewee, least flycatcher, kingbird, tree swallow, rough-winged swallow, blue jay, crow, raven, chickadee, tufted titmouse, red-breasted nuthatch, house wren, hermit thrush, veery, robin, red-eyed vireo, catbird, starling, warblers – pine, Nashville, yellow, chestnut-sided, yellow-rumped, redstart, black-throated green, black-and-white, ovenbird, common yellowthroat, parula, magnolia, and Canada – rose-breasted grosbeak, cardinal, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, bobolink, goldfinch, house finch, sparrows – white-throated, chipping, Savannah, and song.