Table 2. Number of colonies and nesting pairs of coastal bird colonies 

 in Maine and observations of nesting ospreys, 1977. 



Species 



Number of colonies 



Estimated number 

 of nesting pairs 



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 



Osprey 



16° 

 103 

 18 



2 



4 



1 



8 



3 

 239^ 

 219^ 

 221^ 



6 

 24 



8^ 



3 



2 



2 

 114^ 



1 

 125 Islands 



19,131 



15,333 



903 



4 



90 



1 



117 



75 



22,390 



9,847 



26,037 



231 



2,095 



1,640 



80 



21 



25 



2,668 



125 



172 



^Present at one additional colony site but numbers were not estimated. 



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