Mojave Nature by Kurt Buzard


Avocets, Plovers, Sandpipers, Seagulls and Stilts

Charadiformes

The wading birds are in this group.

Avocets

American Avocet - Recurvirostra americana

Plovers

Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus

Sandpipers

Dunlin - Calidris alpina
Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
Long-billed Curlew - Numenius americanus
Long-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus scolopaceus
Marbled Godwit - Limosa fedoa
Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria

Seagulls

California Gull - Larus californicus
Forester's Tern - Sterna forsteri
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis
Bonapart's Gull - Chroicocephalus philadelphia

Stilts

Black-necked Stilt - Himantopus mexicanus

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