Table 14-10. 



Resident Status and Relative Abundance of the 

 Shorebirds of Coastal Maine. 



Resident status 

 and species 



Relative abundance 



Spring Summer Fall Winter 



Breeding residents 

 Piping plover 

 Spotted sandpiper 



Wintering residents 

 Purple sandpiper 



Migratory residents 

 Semipalmated plover 

 American golden plover 

 Black-bellied plover 

 Ruddy turnstone 

 Whimbrel 



Solitary sandpiper 

 Willet 



Greater yellowlegs 

 Lesser yellowlegs 

 Red knot 

 Least sandpiper 

 White-rumped sandpiper 

 Dunlin 



Pectoral sandpiper 

 Short-billed dowitcher 

 Stilt sandpiper 

 Semipalmated sandpiper 

 Marbled godwit 

 Hudsonian godwit 

 Sanderling 



Rare visitors 



Baird's sandpiper 



Long-billed dowitcher 



Western sandpiper 



Buff-breasted sandpiper 



Ruff 



Wilson's phalarope 





 2 





 



= rare or absent; 1 = occasional or uncommon; 2 = common 



14-25 



10-80 



