BIRDS holiday NOVA SCOTIA and NEWFOUNDLAND 1997

BIRDS holiday NOVA SCOTIA and NEWFOUNDLAND 1997

This list is of the birds we saw and could name:

American crow
American pipet
American robin
Artic tern

Bald eagle
Barn swallow
Belted kingfisher
Black guillemot
Blackbacked gull
Black-capped chickadee
Blacklegged kittiwake
Blue jay
Canada goose
Common grackle
Common loon
Common murre
Common raven
Common yellowthroat
Doublecrested cormorant
Great blue heron
Great cormorant
Greater yellowlegs
Hairy woodpecker
Hering gull
Horned lark
House sparrow
Mallard
Northern gannet
Osprey
Puffin
Purple finch
Razorbill
Redwinged blackbird
Ringbilled gull
Rock dove
Sparrow
Spotted sandpiper
Starling
Thick-billed murre
Yellow-rumped warbler

Names from: Field guide to the BIRDS of North America – National Geographic Society

Other WILDLIFE holiday NOVA SCOTIA and NEWFOUNDLAND 1997
‘snake’ - Kejimkujik
Chipmunk - forest Nova Scotia
Harbour seals - Brier Island
Humpback whale - Bay Bulls – Witlessbay
Minke whale - Cheticamp
Moose - Cape Breton and Newfoundland
Pilot whale - Cheticamp
Porcupine - dead along the road
Red squirrel - forests
Redbacked vole - Kejimkujik
Snowshoehare - Cape Breton and Newfoundland
Toads - Kejimkujik
White tailed deer - Kejimkujik

PLANTS holiday NOVA SCOTIA and NEWFOUNDLAND 1997

This list is of the plants we saw and could name:

Acer saccharum – Sugar maple
Actaea rubra – White baneberry
Aralia hispida – Bristly sarsaparilla
Caltha palustris – Marsh marigold
Clintonia borealis – Clintonia or Cornlily
Coptis groenlandica – Goldthread
Cornus canadensis - Bunchberry
Cypripedium reginae – Pink lady’s slipper

Drosera rotundifolia – Roundleaved sundew
Empetrum nigrum – Crowberry
Epigaea repens – Trailing arbutus
Gaultheria hispidula – Creeping snowberry
Gaultheria procumbens – Checkerberry
Iris versicolor – Blueflag iris
Kalmia angustifolium – Sheep laurel
Kalmia polifolia – Pale laurel
Lathyrus japonicus – Beach pea
Ledum groenlandicum – Labrador tea
Maienthemum canadense – Wild lily-of-the-valley
Medeola virginiana – Indian cucumberroot
Mertensia maritima – Sea mertensia
Mitchella repens – Partridgeberry
Plantago juncoides – Seaside plantain
Plantago lanceolata – English plantain
Plantago major – Common plantain
Potentilla anserina – Silverweed
Primula mistassinica – Bird’s-eye primrose
Pyrola rotundifolia - Roundleaved pyrola
Ranunculus abortivus – Kidneyleaf buttercup
Ranunculus acris – Common buttercup
Rhododendron canadense – Rhodora
Rubus chamaemorus – Cloudberry or Bake-apple
Rumex acetosa – Garden sorrel
Sagittaria latifolia – Broadleaved arrowhead
Sanguisorba canadensis – Canadian burnet
Sarraceria purpurea – Pitcherplant
Sedum rosea – Roseroot
Senecio aureus – Golden ragwort
Sisyrinchium montanum – Blue-eyed grass
Smilacina racemosa – False solomonsseal
Smilacina trifolia – Three leaved false salomonsseal
Streptopus roseus – Rose twisted stalk
Trientalis borealis – Starflower
Trillium undulatum – Painted trillium
Tussilago farfara – Coltsfoot
Typha latifolia – Common cattail
Vaccinium macrocarpon – Large cranberry
Viola blanda – Northern white violet

Names from: A field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and Northcentral North America – Peterson and McKenny

Other PLANTS by their dutch names:

Aardbei (Fragaria spec.)
Akelei (?)
Anemoon (Anemone spec.)
Antennaria spec.

Baardmossen
Berberis spec.
Bergvlier
Berk (Betula spec.)
Blauwe, witte en gele violen (Viola spec.)
Bosbes (Vaccinium spec.)
Braam (Rubus spec.)
Carex spec.
Diverse heides (Erica en Calluna spec.)
Duizendblad (Achillea spec.)
Een-arig wollegras (Eriophorum spec.)
Els (Alnus spec.)
Fluitekruid (Anthriscus spec.)
Haarmos
Hemlock (Tsuga spec.)
Hoornbloem (Cerastium spec.)
Kartelblad (Pedicularis spec.)
Kastanje (Aesculus spec.)
Klaverzuring (Oxalis spec.)
Kleine klaver (Trifolium spec.)
Knoop
Korstmossen (Cladonia spec.)
Krenteboompje (Amelanchier spec.)
Kussentjesmos
Lijsterbes (Sorbus spec.)
Linea borealis (?)
Lupine (Lupinus spec.)
Margriet (Chrysanthemum)
Paardebloem (Taraxacum spec.)
Paardestaart (Equisetum spec.)
Pinksterbloem (Cardamine spec.)
Ratelaar (Rhinanthus spec.)
Red maple
Reukgras
Rode klaver (Trifolium spec.)
Roos (Rosa spec.)
Russen (Juncus spec.)
Sering (Seringa spec.)
Tormentil (Potentilla spec.)
Varens
Veenpluis (Eriophorum spec.)
Vogelkers (Prunus spec.)
Vrouwenmantel (Alchemilla spec.)
Wateraardbei (Potentilla spec.)
Zonnedauw (Drosera spec.)