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Birds in Maine
Alcids Alicidae Dovekie Common Murre Thick-billed Murre Razorbill Black Guillemot Atlantic Puffin Bitterns & Herons Ardeidae American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Blackbirds Icteridae Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Northern Oriole Boobies Sulidae Northern Gannet Cardinals & Allies Cardinalinae Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel Chickadees Paridae Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Cormorants Phalacrocoracidae Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Cranes Gruidae Sandhill Crane Creepers Certhiidae Brown Creeper Cuckoos Cuculidae Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Doves Columbidae Rock Dove Mourning Dove Falcons Falconidae American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Gyrfalcon Finches Fringillidae Hoary Redpoll Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak Pine Grosbeak Flycatchers Tyrannidae Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Acadian Flycatcher Western Kingbird Geese & Ducks Anatidae Mute Swan Eurasian Wigeon Redhead Snow Goose Canada Goose Brant Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback 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 Gnatcatchers Sylviidae Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Grebe Podicipedidae Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Grouse Phasianidae Ring-necked Pheasant Ruffed Grouse Spruce Grouse Wild Turkey Gulls & Terns Laridae Laughing Gull Little Gull Common Black-headed Gull Boneparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Great Skua South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Black Tern Long-tailed Jaeger "Thayer's" Gull Sabine's Gull Caspian Tern Royal Tern Hawks & Eagles Accipitridae 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 Hummingbirds Trochilidae Ruby-throated Hummingbird Ibises Threskiornithidae Glossy Ibis Jays & Crows Corvidae Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Gray Jay Fish Crow Kingfishers Alcedinidae Belted Kingfisher Kinglets Regulidae Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Larks Alaudidae Horned Lark Loons Gaviidae Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pacific Loon Mimids Mimidae Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher |
Birds Birds eat all diferent kinds of things.
For example: Hummingbirds- Their diet consists of mainly nector from flowers, sap from trees and insects. Osprey- They eat mainly fish. Red-winged Bird- Their diet consists of mainly seeds, grains, insects, insect larvae, spiders, snails, berries, fruit. Habitat:
Maine Birds live all over Maine and in different
habitats.
Most Maine Birds live in forests or by the sea. For example: The Bald Eagle-The Bald Eagle lives near rivers of lakes The Blue Jay- The Blue jay lives near rivers of lakes. 
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Birds in Maine Continued...
New World Sparrows Emberizidae Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Lark Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Nightjars Caprimulgidae Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Nuthatches Sittidae Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Old World Sparrows Passeridae House Sparrow Owls Strigidae Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern Hawk Owl Eastern Screech Owl Great Gray Owl Boreal Owl Oystercatchers Haematopodidae American Oystercatcher Pipits Motacillidae American Pipit Plovers Charadriidae Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover (Lesser Golden) Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer Rails & Allies Rallidae Virginia Rail Sora American Coot Common Moorhen Yellow Rail Sandpipers Scolopacidae Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled 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 Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe American Woodcock Wilson's Phalarope Red Phalarope Buff-breasted Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Curlew Sandpiper Shearwaters Procellariidae Northern Fulmar Cory's Shearwater Greater Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater Shrike Lanidae Northern Shrike Loggerhead Shrike Starlings Sturnidae European Starling Storm-Petrels Hydrobatidae Wilson's Storm-Petrel Leach's Storm-Petrel Swallows Hirundinidae Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Purple Martin Swifts Apodidae Chimney Swift Tanagers Thraupidae Scarlet Tanager Summer Tanager Thrushes Turdidae Eastern Bluebird Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray-cheeked Thrush Bicknell's Thrush Varied Thrush Vireos Vireonidae White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Solitary Vireo Vultures Cathartidae Turkey Vulture Waxwings Bombycillidae Cedar Waxwing Bohemian Waxwing Wood Warblers Parulidae Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee 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 Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Yellow-breasted Chat Golden-winged Warbler Cerulean Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Hooded Warbler Woodpeckers Picidae Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Wrens Troglodytidae Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren I got this from http://www.mainebirding.net/checklist/state.htm
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