Field Checklist of Maine Birds

• Snow Goose
• Brant
• Canada Goose
• Mute Swan
• Wood Duck
Gadwall
• American Wigeon
• American Black Duck
• Mallard
• Blue-winged Teal
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Pintail
• Green-winged Teal
• Canvasback
• Redhead
• Ring-necked Duck
• Greater Scaup
• Lesser Scaup
• King Eider
• Common Eider
• Harlequin Duck
• Surf Scoter
• White-winged Scoter
• Black Scoter
• Long-tailed Duck
• Bufflehead
• Common Goldeneye
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Hooded Merganser
• Common Merganser
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Ruddy Duck

• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Ruffed Grouse
• Spruce Grouse
• Wild Turkey

• Red-throated Loon
• Pacific Loon
• Common Loon

• Pied-billed Grebe
• Horned Grebe
• Red-necked Grebe

• Northern Fulmar
• Greater Shearwater
• Sooty Shearwater
• Manx Shearwater

• Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
• Leach’s Storm-Petrel

• Northern Gannet

• Double-crested Cormorant
• Great Cormorant

• American Bittern
•  Least Bittern
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Snowy Egret
• Little Blue Heron
• Tricolored Heron
• Green Heron
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

• Glossy Ibis

• Black Vulture
• Turkey Vulture

• Osprey
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Harrier
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Northern Goshawk
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Golden Eagle

• American Kestrel
• Merlin
• Peregrine Falcon

• Virginia Rail
• Sora
• Common Moorhen
• American Coot

• Sandhill Crane

• Black-bellied Plover
• American Golden-Plover
• Semipalmated Plover
• Piping Plover
• Killdeer

• American Oystercatcher

• Spotted Sandpiper
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Willet
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Upland Sandpiper
• Whimbrel
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Red Knot
• Sanderling
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Western Sandpiper
• Least Sandpiper
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Purple Sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Wilson’s Snipe
• American Woodcock
• Wilson’s Phalarope
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red Phalarope

• Laughing Gull
• Little Gull
• Black-headed Gull
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• Herring Gull
• Iceland Gull
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Glaucous Gull
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Least Tern
• Caspian Tern
• Black Tern
• Roseate Tern
• Common Tern
• Arctic Tern
• Forster’s Tern
• Great Skua
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Parasitic Jaeger

• Dovekie
• Common Murre
• Thick-billed Murre
• Razorbill
• Black Guillemot
• Atlantic Puffin

• Rock Pigeon
• Mourning Dove

• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo

• Great Horned Owl
• Snowy Owl
• Barred Owl
• Great Gray Owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Short-eared Owl
• Northern Saw-whet Owl

• Common Nighthawk
• Whip-poor-will

• Chimney Swift

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird

• Belted Kingfisher

• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Am. Three-toed Woodpecker
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker

• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Alder Flycatcher
• Willow Flycatcher
• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Phoebe
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Eastern Kingbird

• Northern Shrike

• White-eyed Vireo
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Warbling Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo

• Gray Jay
• Blue Jay
• American Crow
• Fish Crow
• Common Raven

• Horned Lark

• Purple Martin
• Tree Swallow
• N. Rough-winged Swallow
• Bank Swallow
• Cliff Swallow
• Barn Swallow

• Black-capped Chickadee
• Boreal Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse

• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• White-breasted Nuthatch

• Brown Creeper

• Carolina Wren
• House Wren
• Winter Wren
• Sedge Wren
• Marsh Wren

• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

• Eastern Bluebird
• Veery
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Bicknell’s Thrush
• Swainson’s Thrush
• Hermit Thrush
• Wood Thrush
• American Robin

• Gray Catbird
• Northern Mockingbird
• Brown Thrasher

• European Starling

• American Pipit

• Bohemian Waxwing
• Cedar Waxwing

• Blue-winged Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Northern Parula
• Yellow Warbler
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Magnolia Warbler
• Cape May Warbler
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Pine Warbler
• Prairie Warbler
• Palm Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Black-and-white Warbler
• American Redstart
• Ovenbird
• Northern Waterthrush
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Mourning Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Wilson’s Warbler
• Canada Warbler
• Yellow-breasted Chat

• Scarlet Tanager

• Pine Grosbeak
• Purple Finch
• House Finch
• Red Crossbill
• White-winged Crossbill
• Common Redpoll
• Hoary Redpoll
• Pine Siskin
• American Goldfinch
• Evening Grosbeak

SPARROWS (EMBERIZIDAE)

• Eastern Towhee
• American Tree Sparrow
• Chipping Sparrow
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Field Sparrow
• Lark Sparrow
• Vesper Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
• Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sp.
• Fox Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Lincoln’s Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco