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Common birds of the Maine Coast

Birds are all around us, and I have loved them since I was young. Right now, I am trying to find as many species of birds as I can. Birds are, and have always been swooping around us, and showing off their stuff. These wonders need to be known by the whole world, just as they are.

Red Knot 1
Calidris canutus
Sanderling 2
Calidris alba
Stilt Sandpiper 3
Calidris himantopus
Baird's Sandpiper 4
Calidris bairdii
Red-necked Stint 5
Calidris ruficollis
Western Sandpiper 6
Calidris mauri
Purple Sandpiper 7
Calidris maritima
Dunlin 8
Calidris alpina
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Calidris pusilla
Curlew Sandpiper 7
Calidris ferruginea
Least Sandpiper 9
Calidris minutilla
Pectoral Sandpiper 7
Calidris melanotos
White-rumped Sandpiper 10
Calidris fuscicollis
Short-billed Dowitcher 11
Limnodromus griseus
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Tringa solitaria
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs 12
Tringa flavipes
Whimbrel 7
Numenius phaeopus
Common Snipe 13
Gallinago gallinago
American Woodcock 10
Scolopax minor
Ruddy Turnstone 14
Arenaria interpres
Hudsonian Godwit 15
Limosa haemastica
Marbled Godwit 16
Limosa fedoa
Red-necked Phalarope 17
Phalaropus lobatus
Upland Sandpiper 10
Bartramia longicauda
Spotted Sandpiper 18
Actitis macularius
Willet 10
Tringa semipalmata
Wilson's Snipe 19
Gallinago delicata
Eastern Willet 20
Tringa semipalmata semipalmata
Ruff 21
Calidris pugnax
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 10
Calidris subruficollis

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