Coastal Maine is one of the premier spots for birdwatching. Guests who come for Maine birding can potential see over 150 different kinds of birds. It is common to see eagles and herons and other shorebirds from any of our properties (and some properties may be within a significant critical habitat for shorebirds). Want to come to birdwatch and don’t know where to start? Begin with checking out the list and links below.
Maine and New Brunswick, Canada are the home to numerous birding festivals, events and trails.
Bird and Nature Tours can be personalized and arranged through DownEast Nature Tours.
The Wings, Waves and Woods Festival is held in nearby Deer Island in Stonington in May.
The Downeast Spring Birding Festival is held in Whiting in May
The Grand Manan Bird Sanctuary in New Brunswick
The Acadia Birding Festival is held in May in Bar Harbor.
Birds that can be found in Maine include: (if you encounter a bird that’s not on our list, let us know and we’ll add it!)
1 Canada Goose
2 Wood Duck
3 American Black Duck
4 Mallard
5 Common Eider
6 Surf Scoter
7 White-winged Scoter
8 Black Scoter
9 Long-tailed Duck
10 Common Merganser
11 Red-breasted Merganser
12 Ruffed Grouse
13 Spruce Grouse
14 Wild Turkey
15 Red-throated Loon
16 Common Loon
17 Pied-billed Grebe
18 Horned Grebe
19 Northern Gannet
20 Great Cormorant
21 Double-crested Cormorant
22 Great Blue Heron
23 Snowy Egret
24 Green Heron
25 Turkey Vulture
26 Osprey
27 Northern Harrier
28 Sharp-shinned Hawk
29 Cooper’s Hawk
30 Bald Eagle
31 Broad-winged Hawk
32 Red-tailed Hawk
33 Sandhill Crane
34 Black-bellied Plover
35 Killdeer
36 Upland Sandpiper
37 Ruddy Turnstone
38 Semipalmated Sandpiper
39 Short-billed Dowitcher
40 American Woodcock
41 Spotted Sandpiper
42 Greater Yellowlegs
43 Common Murre
44 Razorbill
45 Black Guillemot
46 Atlantic Puffin
47 Bonaparte’s Gull
48 Laughing Gull
49 Ring-billed Gull
50 Herring Gull
51 Iceland Gull
52 Great Black-backed Gull
53 Black Tern
54 Common Tern
55 Arctic Tern
56 Rock Pigeon
57 Mourning Dove
58 Black-billed Cuckoo
59 Barred Owl
60 Common Nighthawk
61 Chimney Swift
62 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
63 Belted Kingfisher
64 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
65 Downy Woodpecker
66 Hairy Woodpecker
67 Black-backed Woodpecker
68 Northern Flicker
69 Pileated Woodpecker
70 American Kestrel
71 Merlin
72 Peregrine Falcon
73 Olive-sided Flycatcher
74 Eastern Wood-Pewee
75 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
76 Alder Flycatcher
77 Willow Flycatcher
78 Least Flycatcher
79 Eastern Phoebe
80 Great Crested Flycatcher
81 Eastern Kingbird
82 Blue-headed Vireo
83 Warbling Vireo
84 Red-eyed Vireo
85 Gray Jay
86 Blue Jay
87 American Crow
88 Common Raven
89 Purple Martin
90 Tree Swallow
91 Bank Swallow
92 Barn Swallow
93 Cliff Swallow
94 Black-capped Chickadee
95 Boreal Chickadee
96 Red-breasted Nuthatch
97 White-breasted Nuthatch
98 Brown Creeper
99 Winter Wren
100 Golden-crowned Kinglet
101 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
102 Eastern Bluebird
103 Veery
104 Bicknell’s Thrush
105 Swainson’s Thrush
106 Hermit Thrush
107 Wood Thrush
108 American Robin
109 Gray Catbird
110 European Starling
111 American Pipit
112 Cedar Waxwing
113 Ovenbird
114 Northern Waterthrush
115 Black-and-white Warbler
116 Tennessee Warbler
117 Nashville Warbler
118 Mourning Warbler
119 Common Yellowthroat
120 American Redstart
121 Northern Parula
122 Magnolia Warbler
123 Bay-breasted Warbler
124 Blackburnian Warbler
125 Yellow Warbler
126 Chestnut-sided Warbler
127 Blackpoll Warbler
128 Black-throated Blue Warbler
129 Palm Warbler
130 Pine Warbler
131 Yellow-rumped Warbler
132 Black-throated Green Warbler
133 Canada Warbler
134 Wilson’s Warbler
135 Nelson’s Sparrow
136 Chipping Sparrow
137 Fox Sparrow
138 Dark-eyed Junco
139 White-throated Sparrow
140 Vesper Sparrow
141 Savannah Sparrow
142 Song Sparrow
143 Swamp Sparrow
144 Summer Tanager
145 Scarlet Tanager
146 Northern Cardinal
147 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
148 Indigo Bunting
149 Bobolink
150 Red-winged Blackbird
151 Rusty Blackbird
152 Common Grackle
153 Baltimore Oriole
154 Purple Finch
155 Red Crossbill
156 Pine Siskin
157 American Goldfinch
