Table 1. Nesting colonial waterbird species in 1977 (Maine- Virginia), showing occurrence and abundance by States. 



Species MF. NH MA RI CT NY NJ DE MD VA 



Leach's Storm Petrel 



Oceanodroma leucurhoa 19,131 20+ 



Double-crested Cormorant 



Phalacrocorax auritus 15,333 24 1,760 65 



Great Blue Heron 



Ardea herodias 903 3 174 1,883 593 



Green Heron 



Butorides striates 1 2 15 3 14 2 28 21 



Little Blue Heron 



Florida caerulea 4 19 35 1 13 246 600 102 193 



Cattle Egret 



Bubulcusibis 10 110 4 15 565 4,000 1,325 486 



Great Egret 



Casmerodius albus 6 22 20 317 488 250 830 541 



Snowy Egret 



Egretta thula 90 459 180 50 1,416 2,783 1,000 1,332 2,844 



Louisiana Heron 



Hydranassa tricolor 1 1 10 178 50 204 722 



Black-crowned Night Heron 



Nycticorax nycticorax 117 1,958 517 406 1,534 1,453 400 966 1,737 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron 



Nyctanassaviolacea 22 139 40 37 \i 



Glossy Ibis 



Plegadis fulcinellus 75 112 160 10 917 2,844 700 137 536 



White Ibis 



Eudocimus albus ' 



Common Eider 



Somatcria mollissima 22,390 1 + 



Great Black-backed Gull 



Larus marinus 9,847 91 4,670 540 164 1,894 144 33 2- 



Herring Gull 



Larus argentatus 26,037 350 25,845 6,016 3,134 17,459 5,913 31 4,586 2,62' 



Laughing Gull 



Larus atricUla 231 200 30,940 96 2,229 31.19 



Gull-billed Tem 



Gelochilidon nilotica 19 10 



Forster's Tern 



Sterna forsterii 463 520 1,09 



