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American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American WoodcockScolopax minor
Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdii
Black TernChlidonias niger
Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
Black-legged KittiwakeRissa tridactyla
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Bonaparte's GullLarus philadelphia
Buff-breasted SandpiperTryngites subruficollis
California GullLarus californicus
Caspian TernSterna caspia
Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
Common TernSterna hirundo
DunlinCalidris alpina
Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Franklin's GullLarus pipixcan
Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
Herring GullLarus argentatus
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemastica
KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
Laughing GullLarus atricilla
Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
Least TernSterna antillarum
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
Little GullLarus minutus
Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudus
Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
Mew GullLarus canus
Mountain PloverCharadrius montanus
Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinus
Red KnotCalidris canutus
Red PhalaropePhalaropus fulicaria
Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
Sabine's GullXema sabini
SanderlingCalidris alba
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
Snowy PloverCharadrius alexandrinus
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria
Spotted SandpiperActitis macularia
Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
Western Snowy PloverCharadrius alexandrinus nivosus
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis
WilletCatoptrophorus semipalmatus
Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolor




We are pleased to be able to provide life history information directly from the following preeminent sources:

  • Fitzgerald, JP, Meaney, CA, Armstrong, DM. 1994. Mammals of Colorado. Niwot: Denver Museum of Natural History and University Press of Colorado.


  • Andrews, R, Righter, R. 1992. Colorado Birds. Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History.


  • Hammerson, GA. 2000. Amphibians and Reptiles in Colorado, Revised Edition. Niwot: University Press of Colorado.


  • Woodling, J. 1984. Game Fish of Colorado. Denver: Colorado Division of Wildlife.


  • Woodling, J. 1985. Colorado's Little Fish. Denver: Colorado Division of Wildlife.



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