Wildlife of North Sterling State Park

North Sterling State Park is located on the high plains of northeast Colorado in Logan County, 12 miles north of the town of Sterling and 20 miles south of the Nebraska border. The Pawnee National Grasslands are 20 miles to the west and the Chimney Canyons bluffs are just north of the park. The ...more ↓

Yellow Perch ¹
Perca flavescens

Freshwater drum ²
Aplodinotus grunniens

White Bass ³
Morone chrysops

Rainbow trout ⁴
Oncorhynchus mykiss

Black Bullhead ⁵
Ameiurus melas

Flathead Catfish ⁶
Pylodictis olivaris

Blue Catfish ⁷
Ictalurus furcatus

Channel Catfish ⁸
Ictalurus punctatus

Bigmouth Shiner ⁹
Notropis dorsalis

Sand Shiner ¹⁰
Notropis stramineus

Common Shiner ¹¹
Luxilus cornutus

Fathead minnow ¹
Pimephales promelas

Central stoneroller ¹²
Campostoma anomalum

Red Shiner ¹³
Cyprinella lutrensis

Plains Minnow ¹⁴
Hybognathus placitus

Suckermouth Minnow ¹⁵
Phenacobius mirabilis

Longnose sucker ¹⁶
Catostomus catostomus

White Sucker ¹⁷
Catostomus commersonii

River Carpsucker ¹⁸
Carpiodes carpio

American gizzard shad ¹⁹
Dorosoma cepedianum

Pallid sturgeon ²⁰
Scaphirhynchus albus

Northern Pike ²¹
Esox lucius

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Wildlife of North Sterling State Park

Yellow Perch 1 Perca flavescens

Freshwater drum 2 Aplodinotus grunniens

White Bass 3 Morone chrysops

Rainbow trout 4 Oncorhynchus mykiss

Black Bullhead 5 Ameiurus melas

Flathead Catfish 6 Pylodictis olivaris

Blue Catfish 7 Ictalurus furcatus

Channel Catfish 8 Ictalurus punctatus

Bigmouth Shiner 9 Notropis dorsalis

Sand Shiner 10 Notropis stramineus

Common Shiner 11 Luxilus cornutus

Fathead minnow 1 Pimephales promelas

Central stoneroller 12 Campostoma anomalum

Red Shiner 13 Cyprinella lutrensis

Plains Minnow 14 Hybognathus placitus

Suckermouth Minnow 15 Phenacobius mirabilis

Longnose sucker 16 Catostomus catostomus

White Sucker 17 Catostomus commersonii

River Carpsucker 18 Carpiodes carpio

American gizzard shad 19 Dorosoma cepedianum

Pallid sturgeon 20 Scaphirhynchus albus

Northern Pike 21 Esox lucius