Table 14-1. Common Seabirds of Coastal Maine. (Species breeding in Coastal 

 Maine are indicated by an asterisk) . 



Common name 



Taxonomic name 



Gaviiformes 



* Common loon 

 Red-throated loon 



Pod iciped if ormes 



Pied-billed grebe 



Red-necked grebe 



Horned grebe 

 Proc el lariif ormes 



Northern fulmar 



Greater shearwater 



Sooty shearwater 



Manx shearwater 



* Leach's storm petrel 

 Wilson's storm petrel 



Pel ecan if ormes 

 Gannet 

 Great cormorant 



* Double-crested cormorant 

 Anseriformes 



* Common eider 

 Char ad ri if ormes 



Pomarine jaeger 

 Parasitic jaeger 

 Skua 



Glaucous gull 

 Iceland gull 



* Great black-backed gull 



* Herring gull 

 Ring-billed gull 

 Black-headed gull 



* Laughing gull 

 Bonaparte's gull 

 Little gull 

 Black-legged kittiwake 



* Common tern 



* Arctic tern 



* Roseate tern 



* Least tern 

 Black tern 



* Razorbill 

 Common murre 

 Thick-billed murre 

 Dovekie 



* Black guillemot 



* Common puffin 



Gavia immer 

 Gavia stellata 



Podilymbus podiceps 

 Podiceps grisegena 

 Podiceps auritus 



Fulmarus glacialis 

 Pu f f inu s gravis 

 Puf f inus griseus 

 Puf f inus puf f inus 

 Oceanodroma leucorhoa 

 Ocean it es ocean icus 



Morus bassanus 

 Phalacrocorax carbo 

 Phalacrocorax auritus 



Somateria mollissima 



Stercorarius pomarinus 

 Stercorarius parasiticus 

 Catharacta skua 

 Larus hyperboreus 

 Larus glaucoides 

 Larus mar inus 

 Larus argentatus 

 Larus delawarensis 

 Larus r idibundus 

 Larus atricilla 

 Larus Philadelphia 

 Larus minutus 

 Rissa tridactyla 

 Sterna hirunda 

 Sterna paradisaea 

 Sterna dougallii 

 Sterna albifrons 

 Chlidonias niger 

 Alca torda 

 Uria aalge 

 Uria lomvia 

 Palutus alle 

 Cepphus grylle 

 Fratercula artica 



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