Table 14-3. Common Wading Birds of Coastal Maine, 



Common name 



Taxonomic name 



Great blue heron 

 Green heron 

 Little blue heron 

 Cattle egret 

 Great egret 

 Snowy egret 

 Louisiana heron 

 Black-crowned night heron 

 Yellow-crowned night heron 

 Least bittern 

 American bittern 

 Glossy ibis 



Ardea herodias 



N. violacea 



Ixobrychus exilis 



Botaurus lentiginosus 

 Plegadis falcinellus 



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