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TABLE 12-4. RARE OR UNUSUAL SPECIES OBSERVED IN NEW HAVEN HARBOR, 1971- 

 1977. NEW HAVEN HARBOR ECOLOGICAL STUDIES SUMMARY REPORT, 

 1979. 



COMMON NAME 



Gyrfalcon 

 Merlin 



Cattle egret 

 Glossy ibis 

 Clapper rail 

 Golden plover 

 Wilson's plover 

 Marbled godwit 

 Pectoral sandpiper 

 White-rumped sandpiper 

 Baird ' s sandpiper 

 Glaucous gull 

 Forster's tern 

 Black tern 

 Black skimmer 



SCIENTIFIC NAME 



Falco rusticolis 

 Falco columbarius 

 Bubulcus ibis 

 Plegadis falcinellus 

 Rallus longirostris 

 Pluvialis dominica 

 Charadrius wilsonia 

 Limosa fedua 

 Erolia melanotus 

 Erolia fuscicollis 

 Erolia hairdii 

 Larus hyperhoreus 

 Sterna forsteri 

 Chlidonias niger 

 Rynchops nigra 



