Photo |
Family |
Species Around Las Vegas |
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Charadriidae |
Plovers. Black-bellied Plover, Snowy Plover, Killdeer.
Species not usually seen around Las Vegas: Piping Plover, Semipalmated Plover. |
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Recurvirostridae |
Stilts and Avocets. Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet. |
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Scolopacidae |
Sandpipers. Spotted Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, Long-billed Curlew, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Snipe, Wilson's Phalarope, Red-necked Phalarope, Dunlin.
Uncommon Species: Lesser Yellowlegs, Marbled Godwit, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red Knot, Short-billed Dowitcher.
Species not around Las Vegas: Black Turnstone, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Wandering Tattler. |
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Laridae
Subfamily Larinae - Gulls |
Gulls. Ring-billed Gull, California Gull, Unidentified Young Gulls.
Uncommon Species: Black-legged Kittiwake, Bonaparte's Gull, Franklin's Gull, Heermann's Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Western Gull, Yellow-footed Gull.
Species not around Las Vegas: Glaucous-winged Gull, Laughing Gull, Mew Gull, Olympic Gull. |
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Laridae
Subfamily Sterninae - Terns |
Terns. Caspian Tern, Black Tern, Forster's Tern.
Uncommon terns: Common Tern.
Species not found around Las Vegas: Elegant Tern, Black Skimmer, Royal Tern, Sandwich Tern. |
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Stercorariidae |
Jaegers. None.
Uncommon species around Las Vegas: Long-tailed Jaeger. |
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Alcidae |
Alcids. None.
Species not around Las Vegas: Common Murre, Marbled Murrelet, Pigeon Guillemot, Tufted Puffin. |
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Haematopodidae |
Oystercatchers. None
Species not around Las Vegas: American Oystercatcher, Black Oystercatcher. |
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