Table 1. Colonial nesting waterbirds in Maine. 



Common name 



Scientific name 



Leach's storm-petrel 



Double-crested cormorant 



Great blue heron 



Little blue heron 



Snowy egret 



Louisiana heron 



Black-crowned night heron 



Glossy ibis 



Common eider 



Great black-backed gull 



Herring gull 



Laughing gull 



Common tern 



Arctic tern 



Roseate tern 



Least tern 



Razorbill 



Black guillemot 



Common puffin 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa) 



Phalacrocorax auritus ) 



Ardea herodias ) 



Florida caerulea) 



Egretta thula ) 



Hydranassa tricolor ) 



Nycticorax nycticorax ) 

 Plegadis falcinellus ) 



Somateria mollissima ) 



Larus marinus) 



Larus argentatus) 



Larus atricilla ) 



Sterna hirundo ) 



Sterna paradisaea ) 



Sterna dougallii ) 



Sterna albifrons ) 



Alca torda ) 



Cepphus gryl le ) 



Fratercula arctica) 



