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436 species in the Maine dex: 135 Common, 152 Uncommon, 128 Rare, 21 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#033 🦌 Harp Seal

#044 🦌 Smoky Shrew

#053 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#069 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#074 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#080 🐦 Greylag Goose

#182 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#204 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#211 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#227 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#277 🐦 Franklin's gull

#313 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#336 🐦 Brown Pelican

#338 🐦 Cave Swallow

#400 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#442 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#443 🐦 South Polar Skua

#459 🐦 Brown Booby

#461 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#465 🐦 Royal Tern

#527 🐸 Mudpuppy

Rare

128

#007 🦌 Star-nosed Mole

#013 🦌 Northern Flying Squirrel

#014 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#017 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#020 🦌 Canadian Lynx

#023 🦌 American Marten

#027 🦌 Woodland vole

#028 🦌 Ermine

#029 🦌 Southern Red-backed Vole

#030 🦌 Woodland jumping mouse

#037 🦌 North American Deermouse

#041 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#043 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#051 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#057 🐦 Western Grebe

#058 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#064 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#065 🐦 Little Auk

#067 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#070 🐦 Seaside Sparrow

#079 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#081 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#082 🐦 Snow Goose

#083 🐦 Ross's Goose

#085 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#087 🐦 Golden Eagle

#092 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#095 🐦 Redhead

#099 🐦 Canvasback

#108 🐦 Cackling Goose

#109 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#112 🐦 Cattle Egret

#117 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#124 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#126 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#131 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#132 🐦 Red Knot

#135 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#137 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#140 🐦 Ruff

#142 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#145 🐦 Spruce Grouse

#152 🐦 Bicknell's Thrush

#155 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#166 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#169 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#173 🐦 Sedge Wren

#179 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#184 🐦 Black Vulture

#192 🐦 Tundra Swan

#193 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#200 🐦 Little Egret

#203 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#221 🐦 Tufted Puffin

#226 🐦 Common Moorhen

#230 🐦 Pacific Loon

#233 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#242 🐦 Steller's Sea Eagle

#243 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#245 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#248 🐦 Little Gull

#249 🐦 Caspian Tern

#251 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#252 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#256 🐦 Varied Thrush

#261 🐦 Herring Gull

#263 🐦 Mew Gull

#267 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#271 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#279 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#280 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#281 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#286 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#289 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#291 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#308 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#309 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#314 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#318 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#321 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#325 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#331 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#332 🐦 Painted Bunting

#335 🐦 American White Pelican

#340 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#343 🐦 Red Phalarope

#344 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#345 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#349 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#350 🐦 American Three-toed Woodpecker

#355 🐦 Western Tanager

#357 🐦 Summer Tanager

#360 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#363 🐦 American Golden Plover

#376 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#384 🐦 King Rail

#390 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#391 🐦 Black Skimmer

#394 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#399 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#405 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#408 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#421 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#428 🐦 King Eider

#444 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#445 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#448 🐦 Forster's Tern

#480 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#482 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#484 🐦 Western Kingbird

#486 🐦 Thick-billed Murre

#487 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#488 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#489 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#492 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#494 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#498 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#500 🐦 White-winged Dove

#505 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#508 🐸 Ambystoma unisexual

#513 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#517 🦎 Wood turtle

#518 🐸 Spring Salamander

#520 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#525 🐸 Mink Frog

#530 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#534 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#537 🦎 Eastern Ribbonsnake

Uncommon

152

#004 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#009 🦌 Virginia opossum

#010 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#012 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#016 🦌 Grey seal

#018 🦌 Snowshoe Hare

#019 🦌 North American River Otter

#025 🦌 Striped Skunk

#026 🦌 Meadow vole

#032 🦌 Muskrat

#034 🦌 Hairy-tailed Mole

#035 🦌 Fisher

#036 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#048 🦌 Gray Fox

#049 🦌 American Black Bear

#052 🐦 Common Redpoll

#054 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#063 🐦 Razorbill

#068 🐦 Saltmarsh Sparrow

#071 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#073 🐦 Northern Pintail

#075 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#084 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#086 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#091 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#094 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#096 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#098 🐦 Greater scaup

#101 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#103 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#104 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#105 🐦 American Bittern

#106 🐦 Brent Goose

#110 🐦 Snowy Owl

#111 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#115 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#118 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#123 🐦 Green Heron

#129 🐦 Sanderling

#130 🐦 Dunlin

#134 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#138 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#139 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#147 🐦 Canada Warbler

#148 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#156 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#160 🐦 Chimney Swift

#162 🐦 Piping Plover

#165 🐦 Black Tern

#167 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#168 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#171 🐦 Hen Harrier

#172 🐦 Marsh Wren

#175 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#176 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#181 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#187 🐦 Fish Crow

#199 🐦 Little blue heron

#207 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#210 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#213 🐦 Horned Lark

#215 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#216 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#217 🐦 Merlin

#218 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#219 🐦 American Kestrel

#220 🐦 Atlantic Puffin

#223 🐦 American Coot

#225 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#231 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#234 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#237 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#238 🐦 American Oystercatcher

#244 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#247 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#250 🐦 Wood Thrush

#254 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#259 🐦 Northern Shrike

#265 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#266 🐦 Iceland Gull

#272 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#278 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#283 🐦 Red Crossbill

#284 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#285 🐦 American Wigeon

#287 🐦 Gadwall

#293 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#299 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#307 🐦 Northern Gannet

#312 🐦 Whimbrel

#315 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#323 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#326 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#329 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#333 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#337 🐦 Gray Jay

#339 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#342 🐦 Great Cormorant

#346 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#351 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#352 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#356 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#359 🐦 Snow Bunting

#361 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#364 🐦 Grey Plover

#365 🐦 Horned Grebe

#366 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#368 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#370 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#371 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#372 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#374 🐦 Sora

#375 🐦 Purple Martin

#385 🐦 Virginia Rail

#389 🐦 Sand Martin

#395 🐦 American Woodcock

#403 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#407 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#419 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#420 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#429 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#430 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#435 🐦 Dickcissel

#437 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#439 🐦 Field Sparrow

#441 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#447 🐦 Roseate Tern

#450 🐦 Arctic Tern

#451 🐦 Least Tern

#454 🐦 Barred owl

#455 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#468 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#470 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#472 🐦 Willet

#473 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#485 🐦 Common Murre

#493 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#496 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#504 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#506 🐸 Blue-spotted Salamander

#514 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#515 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#516 🐸 Northern Two-lined Salamander

#519 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#523 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#524 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#528 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#529 🐸 Eastern Newt

#533 🐸 Moor Frog

#535 🦎 Brown Snake

#536 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Common

135

#001 🦌 Moose

#005 🦌 Coyote

#006 🦌 American beaver

#011 🦌 North American porcupine

#021 🦌 Bobcat

#022 🦌 Woodchuck

#031 🦌 White-tailed deer

#038 🦌 Harbor Seal

#040 🦌 Raccoon

#042 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#045 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#046 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#047 🦌 Red Squirrel

#050 🦌 Red Fox

#055 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#060 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#062 🐦 Wood Duck

#076 🐦 Mallard

#077 🐦 American Black Duck

#088 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#089 🐦 Great Egret

#090 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#100 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#102 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#107 🐦 Canada goose

#113 🐦 Bufflehead

#114 🐦 Common goldeneye

#116 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#119 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#141 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#149 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#151 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#153 🐦 Veery

#154 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#158 🐦 Black Guillemot

#159 🐦 Brown Creeper

#163 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#164 🐦 Killdeer

#174 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#177 🐦 Northern Flicker

#180 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#183 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#185 🐦 American Crow

#186 🐦 Common Raven

#189 🐦 Blue Jay

#195 🐦 Bobolink

#196 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#197 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#198 🐦 Gray Catbird

#202 🐦 Snowy egret

#205 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#209 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#229 🐦 Common Loon

#236 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#239 🐦 House Finch

#240 🐦 Purple Finch

#241 🐦 Bald Eagle

#246 🐦 Barn Swallow

#253 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#257 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#264 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#268 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#270 🐦 American Herring Gull

#273 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#275 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#276 🐦 Laughing Gull

#282 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#288 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#290 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#292 🐦 Black Scoter

#295 🐦 Surf Scoter

#296 🐦 Wild Turkey

#298 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#300 🐦 Song Sparrow

#301 🐦 Goosander

#302 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#303 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#304 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#306 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#310 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#324 🐦 Osprey

#327 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#328 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#341 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#347 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#369 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#382 🐦 Common Grackle

#387 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#388 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#393 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#396 🐦 Ovenbird

#401 🐦 Northern Parula

#402 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#406 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#409 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#411 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#414 🐦 Palm Warbler

#415 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#416 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#417 🐦 Pine Warbler

#418 🐦 American Redstart

#422 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#424 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#425 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#426 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#427 🐦 Common Eider

#431 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#432 🐦 Pine Siskin

#434 🐦 American Goldfinch

#438 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#440 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#449 🐦 Common Tern

#457 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#462 🐦 Tree Swallow

#467 🐦 Carolina Wren

#471 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#474 🐦 House Wren

#475 🐦 Winter Wren

#477 🐦 American Robin

#483 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#495 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#497 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#501 🐦 Mourning Dove

#502 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#507 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#509 🐸 American Toad

#510 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#511 🦎 Painted Turtle

#521 🐸 American Bullfrog

#522 🐸 Green Frog

#526 🐸 Wood Frog

#531 🐸 Redback Salamander

#532 🐸 Spring Peeper

#538 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#539 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#056 🐦 Clark's Grebe

#059 🐦 Boreal Owl

#061 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#066 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#072 🐦 Black-Throated Sparrow

#078 🐦 Anhinga

#093 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#097 🐦 Tufted Duck

#120 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#121 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#122 🐦 Great Black Hawk

#125 🐦 Lark Bunting

#127 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#128 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#133 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#143 🐦 Surfbird

#146 🐦 Southern Caracara

#150 🐦 European Goldfinch

#157 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#161 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#170 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier · introduced

#178 🐦 Green Violetear

#188 🐦 Yellow Rail

#190 🐦 Black swan

#191 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#194 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#201 🐦 Western reef heron

#206 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#208 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#212 🐦 Grey Flycatcher

#214 🐦 White Ibis

#222 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#228 🐦 Black-throated Diver

#232 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#235 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#255 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#258 🐦 Willow Ptarmigan

#260 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#262 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#269 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#274 🐦 Virginia's Warbler

#294 🐦 Common Scoter

#297 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#305 🐦 Bronzed Cowbird

#311 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#319 🐦 Bridled Tern

#320 🐦 Sooty Tern

#322 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#330 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#334 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#348 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#353 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#354 🐦 Red Tanager

#358 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#362 🐦 European Golden Plover

#367 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#373 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#377 🐦 Trindade Petrel

#381 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#383 🐦 Clapper Rail

#386 🐦 American Avocet

#392 🐦 Rock Wren

#397 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#398 🐦 Broad-tailed Hummingbird

#404 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#410 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler

#412 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#413 🐦 Hermit Warbler

#423 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#433 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#436 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#446 🐦 Great Skua

#452 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#453 🐦 African Collared Dove

#456 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#458 🐦 Masked Booby

#460 🐦 Northern hawk-owl

#463 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#464 🐦 Common Shelduck

#466 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#469 🐦 Grey-tailed Tattler

#476 🐦 Redwing

#478 🐦 Fieldfare

#479 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#481 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#490 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#491 🐦 Cassin's Vireo

#499 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#503 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

Marine

Seen offshore.

#002 🦌 Minke Whale

#003 🦌 Fin Whale · location protected

#008 🦌 Common Dolphin

#015 🦌 Long-finned pilot whale

#024 🦌 Humpback Whale

#039 🦌 Harbor porpoise

#144 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#224 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#316 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#317 🐦 Leach's Storm Petrel

#378 🐦 Great Shearwater

#379 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#380 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#512 🦎 Leatherback Sea Turtle · location protected