Appendix A: Maine Audubon Field Checklist of Maine Birds
ALCIDS (ALCIDAE)
Atlantic Puffin
Black Guillemot
Common Murre
Dovekie
Razorbill
Thick-billed Murre
BITTERNS and HERONS
(ARDEIDAE)
American Bittern
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
BLACKBIRDS (ICTERIDAE)
Baltimore Oriole
Bobolink
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
BOOBIES (SULIDAE)
Northern Gannet
CARDINALS and ALLIES
(CARDINALIDAE)
Blue Grosbeak
Dickcissel
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
CHICKADEES (PARIDAE)
Black-capped Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
CORMORANTS
(PHALACROCORACIDAE)
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
CRANES (GRUIDAE)
Sandhill Crane
CREEPERS (CERTHIIDAE)
Brown Creeper
CUCKOOS (CUCULIDAE)
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
FALCONS (FALCONIDAE)
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
FINCHES (FRINGILLIDAE)
American Goldfinch
Common Redpoll
Evening Grosbeak
Hoary Redpoll
House Finch
Pine Grosbeak
Pine Siskin
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
FLYCATCHERS (TYRANNIDAE)
Alder Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Pewee
FLYCATCHERS (TYRANNIDAE)
Great Crested Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
GEESE and DUCKS (ANATIDAE)
American Black Duck
American Wigeon
Barrows Goldeneye
Black Scoter
Blue-winged Teal
Brant
Bufflehead
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Common Eider
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Green-winged Teal
Harlequin Duck
Hooded Merganser
King Eider
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Mallard
Mute Swan
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Red-breasted Merganser
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Snow Goose
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Wood Duck
GNATCATCHERS (SYLVIIDAE)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
GREBES (PODICIPEDIDAE)
Horned Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
GROUSE (PHASIANIDAE)
Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Wild Turkey
GULLS and TERNS (LARIDAE)
Arctic Tern
Black Tern
Black-headed Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonapartes Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forsters Tern
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Skua
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Laughing Gull
Least Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Little Gull
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Ring-billed Gull
Roseate Tern
HAWKS and EAGLES
(ACCIPITRIDAE)
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Coopers Hawk
Golden Eagle
HAWKS and EAGLES
Northern Goshawk
Northern Harrier
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
HUMMINGBIRDS
(TROCHILIDAE)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
IBISES (THRESKIORNITHIDAE)
Glossy Ibis
JAYS and CROWS (CORVIDAE)
American Crow
Blue Jay
Common Raven
Fish Crow
Gray Jay
KINGFISHERS (ALCEDINIDAE)
Belted Kingfisher
KINGLETS (REGULIDAE)
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
LARKS (ALAUDIDAE)
Horned Lark
LOONS (GAVIIDAE)
Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Red-throated Loon
MIMICS (MIMIDAE)
Brown Thrasher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
NIGHTJARS (CAPRIMULGIDAE)
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will
NUTHATCHES (SITTIDAE)
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
OLD WORLD SPARROWS
(PASSERIDAE)
House Sparrow
OWLS (STRIGIDAE)
Barred Owl
Great Gray Owl
Great Horned Owl
Long-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Short-eared Owl
Snowy Owl
OYSTERCATCHERS
(HAEMATOPODIDAE)
American Oystercatcher
PIGEONS and DOVES
(COLUMBIDAE)
Mourning Dove
Rock Pigeon
PIPITS (MOTACILLIDAE)
American Pipit
PLOVERS (CHARADRIIDAE)
American Golden-Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Piping Plover
Semipalmated Plover
RAILS and ALLIES (RALLIDAE)
American Coot
Common Moorhen
Sora
RAILS and ALLIES
Virginia Rail
SANDPIPERS (SCOLOPACIDAE)
American Woodcock
Bairds Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Hudsonian Godwit
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Dowitcher
Pectoral Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Red Knot
Red Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Whimbrel
White-rumped Sandpiper
Willet
Wilsons Phalarope
Wilsons Snipe
Upland Sandpiper
SHEARWATERS
(PROCELLARIIDAE)
Greater Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Fulmar
Sooty Shearwater
SHRIKES (LANIIDAE)
Northern Shrike
SPARROWS (EMBERIZIDAE)
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Lark Sparrow
Lincolns Sparrow
Nelsons Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
STARLINGS (STURNIDAE)
European Starling
STORM-PETRELS
(HYDROBATIDAE)
Leachs Storm-Petrel
Wilsons Storm-Petrel
SWALLOWS (HIRUNDINIDAE)
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
N. Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
SWIFTS (APODIDAE)
Chimney Swift
TANAGERS (THRAUPIDAE)
Scarlet Tanager
THRUSHES (TURDIDAE)
American Robin
Bicknells Thrush
Eastern Bluebird
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Swainsons Thrush
Veery
Wood Thrush
VIREOS (VIREONIDAE)
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
VULTURES (CATHARTIDAE)
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
WAXWINGS (BOMBYCILLIDAE)
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
WOOD WARBLERS
(PARULIDAE)
American Redstart
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Canada Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Louisiana Waterthrush
Magnolia Warbler
Mourning Warbler
WOOD WARBLERS
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Northern Waterthrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Wilsons Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
WOODPECKERS (PICIDAE)
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker