C.__Maintain a list of all species that the Legislature has designated to be endangered or threatened, naming each species by both its scientific and common name, if any, and specifying over what portion of its range each species so designated is endangered or threatened.

3.__Legislative authority.__The Legislature, as sole authority, shall designate a species as state endangered or state threatened species.__The list of state endangered or state threatened species is as follows:

Common Name Scientific Name Status

Least Tern Sterna albifrons Endangered

Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos Endangered

Piping Plover Charadrius melodus Endangered

Sedge Wren Cistothorus platenis Endangered

Grasshopper

Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum Endangered

Box Turtle Terrapene carolina Endangered

Black Racer Coluber constrictor Endangered

Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Endangered

Northern Bog

Lemming Synaptomys borealis Threatened

Loggerhead

Turtle Caretta caretta Threatened

Blanding's

Turtle Emydoidea blandingii Endangered

Black Tern Chlidonias niger Endangered

American Pipit Anthus rubescens Endangered

Peregrine

Falcon Falco peregrinus Endangered

Flat-headed

Mayfly Epeorus frisoni Endangered

Ringed

Boghaunter Williamsonia lintneri Endangered

Clayton's

Copper Lycaena dorcas claytoni Endangered

Edwards'

Hairstreak Satyrium edwardsii Endangered

Hessel's

Hairstreak Mitoura hesseli Endangered

Katahdin Arctic Oenis polixenes Endangered

katahdin

Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata Threatened

Bald Eagle Haliaeetus Threatened

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