Table 14-2. Common Shorebirds of Coastal Maine 



Common name 



Taxonomic name 



Semipalmated plover 



Piping plover 



Killdeer 



American golden plover 



Black-bellied plover 



Ruddy turnstone 



American woodcock 



Common snipe 



Long-billed curlew 



Whimbrel 



Upland sandpiper 



Spotted sandpiper 



Solitary sandpiper 



Willet 



Greater yellowlegs 



Lesser yellowlegs 



Red knot 



Purple sandpiper 



Pectoral sandpiper 



White-rumped sandpiper 



Baird's sandpiper 



Least sandpiper 



Dunlin 



Short-billed dowitcher 



Long-billed dowitcher 



Stilt sandpiper 



Semipalmated sandpiper 



Western sandpiper 



Buff-breasted sandpiper 



Marbled godwit 



Hudsonian godwit 



Ruff 



Sanderling 



Red phalarope 



Wilson's phalarope 



Northern phalarope 



Charadrius semipalmatus 

 Charadrius melodus 

 Charadrius vociferus 

 Pluvialis dominica 

 Pluvialis squatarola 

 Arena ria interpres 

 Philohela minor 

 C apella gallinag o 

 Numenius americanus 

 Numenius phaeopus 

 Bartramia longicauda 

 Act it is maculariaa 

 Tringa solitaria 

 Catoptrophorus semipalmatus 

 Tringa melanoleucus 

 Tringa flavipes 

 Calidris canutus 

 Calidris maritima 

 Calidris melanotos 

 Calidris fuscicollis 

 Calidris bairdii 

 Calidris minutilla 

 Calidris alpina 

 Limnodromus griseus 

 Limnodromus scolopaceus 

 Micropalama himantopus 

 Calidris p usillus 

 Calidris mauri 

 Tryngites subruf icollis 

 Limosa f edoa 

 Limosa haemastica 



Philomachus pugnax 

 Calidris alba 

 Phalaropus fulicarius 

 Steganopus tricolor 

 Lobipes lobatus 



14-5 



10-80 



