Camp Merryweather

This is a field guide to some of the spectacular organisms living in and around Camp Merryweather, Kennebec County, ME

Sandhill Crane
Grus canadensis
Sora 1
Porzana carolina
Virginia Rail 2
Rallus limicola
Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis
Ruffed Grouse 3
Bonasa umbellus
Wild Turkey 4
Meleagris gallopavo
Ring-necked Pheasant 5
Phasianus colchicus
Black-billed Cuckoo 6
Coccyzus erythropthalmus
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 7
Coccyzus americanus
Belted Kingfisher 8
Megaceryle alcyon
Rock Dove 9
Columba livia
Mourning Dove 10
Zenaida macroura
Passenger Pigeon 11
Ectopistes migratorius
Red Knot 12
Calidris canutus
Sanderling 13
Calidris alba
Purple Sandpiper 6
Calidris maritima
Dunlin 14
Calidris alpina
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
Calidris pusilla
Least Sandpiper 16
Calidris minutilla
Pectoral Sandpiper 17
Calidris melanotos
White-rumped Sandpiper 6
Calidris fuscicollis
Short-billed Dowitcher 18
Limnodromus griseus
Solitary Sandpiper 12
Tringa solitaria
Greater Yellowlegs 12
Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs 19
Tringa flavipes
Whimbrel 20
Numenius phaeopus
Common Snipe 21
Gallinago gallinago
American Woodcock 6
Scolopax minor
Ruddy Turnstone 22
Arenaria interpres
Hudsonian Godwit 23
Limosa haemastica
Upland Sandpiper 6
Bartramia longicauda
Pied-billed Grebe 24
Podilymbus podiceps
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Phalacrocorax auritus
Ring-billed Gull 25
Larus delawarensis
Herring Gull 27
Larus argentatus
Common Tern 28
Sterna hirundo
Thick-billed Murre 29
Uria lomvia
Common Loon 6
Gavia immer
Peregrine Falcon 30
Falco peregrinus
Gyrfalcon 31
Falco rusticolus
American Kestrel 2
Falco sparverius
Merlin 32
Falco columbarius
Wood Stork
Mycteria americana
Turkey Vulture 33
Cathartes aura
Killdeer 34
Charadrius vociferus
Piping Plover 35
Charadrius melodus
Semipalmated Plover 36
Charadrius semipalmatus
Black-bellied Plover 12
Pluvialis squatarola
American Golden-Plover 6
Pluvialis dominica
Snowy Egret 16
Egretta thula
Great Blue Heron 1
Ardea herodias
Black-crowned Night-Heron 37
Nycticorax nycticorax
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 38
Nyctanassa violacea
Least Bittern 39
Ixobrychus exilis
Cattle Egret
Bubulcus ibis
Green Heron 40
Butorides virescens
American Bittern 12
Botaurus lentiginosus
Golden Eagle 6
Aquila chrysaetos
Sharp-shinned Hawk 41
Accipiter striatus
Northern Goshawk 42
Accipiter gentilis
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
Northern Harrier 43
Circus cyaneus
Rough-legged Hawk 44
Buteo lagopus
Red-shouldered Hawk 36
Buteo lineatus
Red-tailed Hawk 45
Buteo jamaicensis
Broad-winged Hawk 46
Buteo platypterus
Swallow-tailed Kite 6
Elanoides forficatus
Bald Eagle 47
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
Chimney Swift 48
Chaetura pelagica
American Black Duck 40
Anas rubripes
Mallard 49
Anas platyrhynchos
Northern Pintail 50
Anas acuta
Green-winged Teal 21
Anas crecca
Blue-winged Teal 51
Anas discors
Northern Shoveler 51
Anas clypeata
Common Goldeneye 52
Bucephala clangula
Bufflehead 51
Bucephala albeola
Red-breasted Merganser 53
Mergus serrator
Common Merganser 54
Mergus merganser
King Eider 55
Somateria spectabilis
Ring-necked Duck 51
Aythya collaris
Greater Scaup
Aythya marila
Lesser Scaup 56
Aythya affinis
Ruddy Duck 57
Oxyura jamaicensis
Brant 10
Branta bernicla
Canada Goose 58
Branta canadensis
Wood Duck 59
Aix sponsa
Hooded Merganser 60
Lophodytes cucullatus
Long-tailed Duck 61
Clangula hyemalis
Labrador Duck 62
Camptorhynchus labradorius
Horned Lark 63
Eremophila alpestris
Cedar Waxwing 39
Bombycilla cedrorum
Bohemian Waxwing 51
Bombycilla garrulus
Brown Creeper 64
Certhia americana
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Polioptila caerulea
Winter Wren 21
Troglodytes troglodytes
House Wren 6
Troglodytes aedon
Marsh Wren 51
Cistothorus palustris

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