Gulf of Maine: More Info
Endangered Species
Many species in the Gulf of Maine watershed are endangered.
This is a list of priority species:
Birds (75 species):
- American bitten
- American black duck
- American oystercatcher
- American woodcock
- Arctic tern
- Bald eagle
- Baltimore oriole
- Bay-breasted warbler
- Bicknell’s thrush
- Black scoter
- Black tern
- Black-bellied plover
- Blackburnian warbler
- Buff-breasted sandpiper
- Canada warbler
- Cape May warbler
- Chestnut-sided warbler
- Common loon
- Common snipe
- Common tern
- Eastern meadowlark
- Field sparrow
- Hudsonian godwit
- Killdeer
- Least sandpiper
- Least tern
- Little blue heron
- Little gull
- Louisiana waterthrush
- Marsh wren
- Nelson’s sharp-tailed sparrow
- Northern flicker
- Northern goshawk
- Northern harrier
- Olive-sided flycatcher
- Osprey
- Peregrine falcon
- Pied-billed grebe
- Piping plover
- Prairie warbler
- Purple sandpiper
- Razorbill
- Red crossbill
- Red-headed woodpecker
- Red knot
- Red-shouldered hawk
- Roseate tern
- Ruddy turnstone
- Saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow
- Sanderling
- Scaup (greater and lesser)
- Seaside sparrow
- Sedge wren
- Semipalmated sandpiper
- Short-billed dowitcher
- Short-eared owl
- Snowy egret
- Solitary sandpiper
- Spruce grouse
- Surf scoter
- Tricolored heron
- Upland sandpiper
- Veery
- Whimbrel
- Whip-poor-will
- White-winged scoter
- Wood duck
- Wood thrush
- Yellow rail
Fish (9 species):
- Alewife
- American eel
- American shad
- Atlantic salmon
- Atlantic sturgeon
- Blueback herring
- Shortnose sturgeon
- Winter flounder
Plants (4 species):
- Eastern prairie fringed orchid
- Furbish’s lousewort
- Robbin’s cinquefoil
- Small whorled pogonia
Mammal:
Invertebrate:
Herps:
For more information, here
are some organizations in the Gulf of Maine that are
rescuing or helping
to sustain endangered marine species.
http://www.coa.edu/alliedwhale/strand.htm
Marine mammal rescues in Maine -- Allied Whale
http://www.coastalstudies.org/
Rescuing entangled whales: Center for Coastal
Studies
http://www.neaq.org/scilearn/randr/index.html
New England Aquarium: marine animal rescue
and rehabilitation
http://www.une.edu/cas/msc/rehab.html
Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center at
University of New England |
