Table 1. Colonial waterbirds nesting during 1976-1977, 

 southern Maine to Virginia. 



Common name 



Scientific name 



Leach's storm-petrel 



Double-crested cormorant 



Great blue heron 



Green heron 



Little blue heron 



Cattle egret 



Great egret 



Snowy egret 



Louisiana heron 



Black-crowned night heron 



Yellow-crowned night heron 



Glossy ibis 



White ibis 



Common eider 



Great black-backed gull 



Herring gull 



Laughing gull 



Gull -billed tern 



Forster's tern 



Common tern 



Arctic tern 



Roseate tern 



Least tern 



Royal tern 



Sandwich tern 



Caspian tern 



Black skimmer 



Black guillemot 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa 



