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Wildlife of Highline Lake State Park

Highline Lake State Park lies within the Grand Valley of western Colorado at the eastern edge of the Great Basin, about 20 miles west and north of Grand Junction. The park encompasses about 570 acres and consists of Mack Mesa Reservoir and Highline Lake, and lands surrounding these bodies of ...more ↓

Northern Flicker 1
Colaptes auratus
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Sphyrapicus varius
Downy Woodpecker 3
Dryobates pubescens
Hairy Woodpecker 4
Dryobates villosus
Western Screech Owl 5
Megascops kennicottii
Burrowing Owl 6
Athene cunicularia
Great Horned Owl 7
Bubo virginianus
Long-eared Owl 2
Asio otus
Belted Kingfisher 8
Megaceryle alcyon
Rock Pigeon 9
Columba livia
Mourning Dove 10
Zenaida macroura
Sora 11
Porzana carolina
Virginia Rail 12
Rallus limicola
American Coot 6
Fulica americana
Sandhill Crane 13
Antigone canadensis
Whooping Crane 14
Grus americana
Turkey Vulture 15
Cathartes aura
Gambel's Quail 16
Callipepla gambelii
Ring-necked Pheasant 17
Phasianus colchicus
Sanderling 18
Calidris alba
Dunlin 19
Calidris alpina
Baird's Sandpiper 20
Calidris bairdii
Red Knot 21
Calidris canutus
White-rumped Sandpiper 2
Calidris fuscicollis
Stilt Sandpiper 22
Calidris himantopus
Western Sandpiper 23
Calidris mauri
Least Sandpiper 24
Calidris minutilla
Semipalmated Sandpiper 18
Calidris pusilla
Long-billed Dowitcher 25
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Lesser Yellowlegs 26
Tringa flavipes
Greater Yellowlegs 21
Tringa melanoleuca
Willet 2
Tringa semipalmata
Solitary Sandpiper 21
Tringa solitaria
Long-billed Curlew 11
Numenius americanus
Whimbrel 27
Numenius phaeopus
Common Snipe 28
Gallinago gallinago
Ruddy Turnstone 29
Arenaria interpres
Marbled Godwit 30
Limosa fedoa
Hudsonian Godwit 31
Limosa haemastica
Red Phalarope 27
Phalaropus fulicarius
Red-necked Phalarope 11
Phalaropus lobatus
Wilson's Phalarope 32
Phalaropus tricolor
Spotted Sandpiper 33
Actitis macularius
Caspian Tern 30
Hydroprogne caspia
Forster's Tern 34
Sterna forsteri
Common Tern 35
Sterna hirundo
Black Tern 36
Chlidonias niger
Bonaparte's Gull 21
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
Herring Gull 37
Larus argentatus
California Gull 38
Larus californicus
Ring-billed Gull 39
Larus delawarensis
Glaucous Gull 40
Larus hyperboreus
Franklin's Gull 41
Leucophaeus pipixcan
Kentish Plover 42
Charadrius alexandrinus
Semipalmated Plover 43
Charadrius semipalmatus
Killdeer 44
Charadrius vociferus
American Golden Plover 45
Pluvialis dominica
Black-bellied Plover 21
Pluvialis squatarola
Black-necked Stilt 46
Himantopus mexicanus
Common Loon 2
Gavia immer
Pacific Loon 21
Gavia pacifica
Red-throated Loon 47
Gavia stellata
Horned Grebe 21
Podiceps auritus
Red-necked Grebe 48
Podiceps grisegena
Eared Grebe 5
Podiceps nigricollis
Clark's Grebe 21
Aechmophorus clarkii
Western Grebe 11
Aechmophorus occidentalis
Pied-billed Grebe 49
Podilymbus podiceps
White-faced Ibis 50
Plegadis chihi
American White Pelican 51
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
American Bittern 3
Botaurus lentiginosus
Snowy Egret 24
Egretta thula
Great Egret 11
Ardea alba
Great Blue Heron 11
Ardea herodias
Black-crowned Night Heron 28
Nycticorax nycticorax
Cattle Egret 52
Bubulcus ibis
Striated Heron 53
Butorides striata
Green Heron 54
Butorides virescens
Prairie Falcon 30
Falco mexicanus
Peregrine Falcon 55
Falco peregrinus
American Kestrel 56
Falco sparverius
Lesser Nighthawk 57
Chordeiles acutipennis
Common Nighthawk 52
Chordeiles minor
Black-chinned Hummingbird 58
Archilochus alexandri
American Wigeon 59
Mareca americana
Gadwall 60
Mareca strepera
Northern Shoveler 59
Spatula clypeata
Cinnamon Teal 61
Spatula cyanoptera
Blue-Winged Teal 59
Spatula discors
Trumpeter Swan 62
Cygnus buccinator
Tundra Swan 63
Cygnus columbianus
Northern Pintail 64
Anas acuta
Green-winged Teal 65
Anas crecca
Mallard 66
Anas platyrhynchos
Bufflehead 59
Bucephala albeola
Common Goldeneye 67
Bucephala clangula
Barrow's Goldeneye 67
Bucephala islandica
Common Merganser 60
Mergus merganser
Red-breasted Merganser 68
Mergus serrator
Greater White-fronted Goose 8
Anser albifrons

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