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Table 2: Species/Species Groups of Marine Birds Occurring in the Southwestern Gulf of Maine 



Group 



Loons 



Albatross 

 Fulmars 



Shearwaters 



Storm Petrals 



Gannets/ 

 Cormoraiits 



Phalaropes 



Alcids 



Gulls/Jaegers/ 

 Skuas 



Terns 



Species/Common Name 



Gavis immer . Common Loon 

 G. stellata . Red-throated Loon 

 Diomedea spp . 

 Fulmarus glacialis . Northern Fulmar 



Calonectris diomedea . Corey's Shearwater 



Puffmus gravis . Greater Shearwater 



£. griseus . Sooty Shearwater 



P. puffmus . Manx Shearwater 



Oceanites oceanicus . Wilson's storm petral 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa . Leach's strom petral 



Sula bassanus . Northern Gannet 



Phalacrocorax carbo .Great cormorant 



P. auritus . Double-crested cormorant 



Phalaropus fulicaria .Red phalarope 



P. lobatus . Red-necked phalarope 



Alca torda . Razorbill 



Uria aalge . Thin-billed (common) murre 



U. lomvia . Thick-billed (Brunnich's) murre 



Alle . Dovekie 



Cepphus grylJe . Black guillemot 



Fratercula arctica . Atlantic (Common) puffin 



Larus hyperboreus . Glacuous gull 



L. glaucoides . Iceland gull 



L. marinus . Great Black-backed gull 



L. argentatus . Herring gull 



L. delawarensis . Ring-billed gull 



L. atricilla . Laughing gull 



L, Philadelphia . Bonaparte's gull 



Xema sabini . Sabine's gull 



Rissa tridactvla . Black-legged kittiwake 



Stercorarius pomarinus . Pomarine jaeger 



S. parasiticus . Parasitic jaeger 



^ longicaudus . Long-tailed jaeger 



Catharacta skua . Great skua 



C. maccormickii . South polar skua 



Sterna hirundo . Common tern 



S. paradisaea . Arctic tern 



S. dougalii . Roseate tern 



S. albifrons . Least tern 



S. maxima . Royal tern 



S. sandivicensis . Sandwich tern 



S. anaethetus . Bridled tern 



^ fuscata . Sooty tern 



Chlidonias niger . Black tern 



Major Food 



Fish 



Fish 



Fish , Cephalopods 



Fish, Offal 



Crustaceans, Cephalopods 



Fish, Cephalopods 



Crustaceans 



Crustaceans, Fish 



Cephalopods 



Fish 



Crustaceans 

 Fish eggs, larvae 

 Fish 

 Crustaceans 



Fish, Cephalopods 

 Offal 



Small Fish 



