Birds of Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area

Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area attracts millions of visitors each years to enjoy the 148 mile river corridor between Leadville and Canon City. The 24 parcels of land are managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife alongside the Bureau of Land Management and span elevations of 10,000 feet to ...more ↓

Taxonomy
« Back To Shorebirds and Allies Order Charadriiformes
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers Family Laridae
  - 9 Gulls Subfamily Larinae
  - 5 Terns and Noddies Subfamily Sterninae

Least Tern ¹
Sternula antillarum

Caspian Tern ²
Hydroprogne caspia

Forster's Tern ³
Sterna forsteri

Common Tern ⁴
Sterna hirundo

Black Tern ⁵
Chlidonias niger

Bonaparte's Gull ⁶
Chroicocephalus philadelphia

Black-headed Gull ⁷
Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Herring Gull ⁸
Larus argentatus

California Gull ⁹
Larus californicus

Ring-billed Gull ¹⁰
Larus delawarensis

Glaucous Gull ¹¹
Larus hyperboreus

Black-legged Kittiwake ¹²
Rissa tridactyla

Sabine's Gull ¹³
Xema sabini

Franklin's Gull ¹⁴
Leucophaeus pipixcan

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Birds of Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area

Least Tern 1 Sternula antillarum

Caspian Tern 2 Hydroprogne caspia

Forster's Tern 3 Sterna forsteri

Common Tern 4 Sterna hirundo

Black Tern 5 Chlidonias niger

Bonaparte's Gull 6 Chroicocephalus philadelphia

Black-headed Gull 7 Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Herring Gull 8 Larus argentatus

California Gull 9 Larus californicus

Ring-billed Gull 10 Larus delawarensis

Glaucous Gull 11 Larus hyperboreus

Black-legged Kittiwake 12 Rissa tridactyla

Sabine's Gull 13 Xema sabini

Franklin's Gull 14 Leucophaeus pipixcan