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Wildlife Fact:

Adult piping plovers will stagger and fake a broken wing to distract predators from their nests and chicks.

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Species Field Guide Search Results

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BIRD

American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)

American kestrel (Falco sparverius)

American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)

Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Barn owl (Tyto alba)

Barred owl (Strix varia)

Black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)

Black skimmer (Rynchops niger)

Black-bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola)

Black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus)

Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

Black-throated blue warbler (Dendroica caerulescens)

Black-throated green warbler (Dendroica virens)

Blackburnian warbler (Dendroica fusca)

Blue-headed vireo (Vireo solitarius)

Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)

Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus)

Brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)

Canada warbler (Wilsonia canadensis)

Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia)

Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)

Cerulean warbler (Dendroica cerulea)

Cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)

Common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)

Common tern (Sterna hirundo)

Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii)

Dunlin (Calidris alpina)

Eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna)

Glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

Golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera)

Grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)

Gray-cheeked thrush (Catharus minimus)

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

Gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)

Henslow's sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii)

Hooded warbler (Wilsonia citrina)

Horned lark (Eremophila alpestris)

Ipswich sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps)

Kentucky warbler (Oporornis formosus)

Least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis)

Least flycatcher (Empidonax minimus)

Least tern (Sternula antillarum)

Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)

Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus migrans)

Long-eared owl (Asio otus)

Nashville warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla)

Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentiles)

Northern harrier (Circus cyaneus)

Northern parula (Parula americana)

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)

Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)

Red knot (Calidris canutus)

Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)

Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)

Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii)

Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)

Saltmarsh sparrow (Ammodramus caudacutus)

Sanderling (Calidris alba)

Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)

Sedge wren (Cistothorus platensis)

Semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)

Semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)

Sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus)

Short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)

Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)

Snowy egret (Egretta thula)

Spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius)

Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor)

Upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)

Veery (Catharus fuscescens)

Vesper sparrow (Pooecetes graminus)

Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)

Whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus)

Willet (Tringa semipalmata)

Winter wren (Troglodytes hiemalis)

Wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)

Worm-eating warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum)

Yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens)

Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea)

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