Medium Shorebirds

Table of Contents
 
Introduction
 
Methods
 
Results
 
Acknowledgments
 
Literature Cited
 
Table 1
Table 2
 
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Species Accounts, Maps, Histograms, and Appendices
 
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Body Size: Medium
Foraging Guild: Terrestrial/aquatic prober/gleaner/pelagic gleaner
Foraging Habitat: Water depth - dry/wet to 2/12/deep; vegetative cover - bare to dense

Six sites with highest counts (see Appendix for more information):

1. Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Kansas

2. Great Salt Lake area, Utah

3. Quill Lakes, Saskatchewan

4. Minnewaukan Flats, Devil’s Lake, North Dakota

5. Lahontan Valley, Nevada, including Carson Lake and Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge

6. Laguna Atacosta National Wildlife Refuge, Texas

Black-bellied Plover

Sanderling

American Golden-Plover

Pectoral Sandpiper

Killdeer

Dunlin

Mountain Plover

Stilt Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Short-billed Dowitcher

Solitary Sandpiper

Long-billed Dowitcher

Spotted Sandpiper

Common Snipe

Ruddy Turnstone

Wilson’s Phalarope

Red Knot

Red-necked Phalarope

Upland Sandpiper

 

 

 

 

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