Mobile, Alabama

This guide contains some of the species found in Mobile, Alabama.

The region’s unusual—and in many cases unique—biological diversity could become an important storehouse of critical species and genetic material that would be shared with all of eastern North America as the climate ...more ↓

Red Knot 1
Calidris canutus
Sanderling 2
Calidris alba
Stilt Sandpiper 3
Calidris himantopus
Western Sandpiper 4
Calidris mauri
Dunlin 5
Calidris alpina
Semipalmated Sandpiper 6
Calidris pusilla
Least Sandpiper 7
Calidris minutilla
Pectoral Sandpiper 8
Calidris melanotos
White-rumped Sandpiper 9
Calidris fuscicollis
Short-billed Dowitcher 10
Limnodromus griseus
Long-billed Dowitcher 11
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Solitary Sandpiper 10
Tringa solitaria
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs 12
Tringa flavipes
Whimbrel 13
Numenius phaeopus
Common Snipe 14
Gallinago gallinago
American Woodcock 9
Scolopax minor
Ruddy Turnstone 15
Arenaria interpres
Marbled Godwit 16
Limosa fedoa
Upland Sandpiper 9
Bartramia longicauda
Ring-billed Gull 17
Larus delawarensis
Herring Gull 18
Larus argentatus
Common Tern 20
Sterna hirundo
Forster's Tern 11
Sterna forsteri
Black Skimmer 21
Rynchops niger
Black Tern 22
Chlidonias niger
Snowy Plover 2
Charadrius alexandrinus
Killdeer 23
Charadrius vociferus
Wilson's Plover 1
Charadrius wilsonia
Piping Plover 24
Charadrius melodus
Semipalmated Plover 25
Charadrius semipalmatus
American Oystercatcher 26
Haematopus palliatus
American Avocet 27
Recurvirostra americana
Black-bellied Plover 1
Pluvialis squatarola
American Golden-Plover 28
Pluvialis dominica
Spotted Sandpiper 29
Actitis macularius
Willet 30
Tringa semipalmata
Bonaparte's Gull 9
Chroicocephalus philadelphia
Laughing Gull 31
Leucophaeus atricilla
Bridled Tern 32
Onychoprion anaethetus
Least Tern 33
Sternula antillarum
Gull-billed Tern 34
Gelochelidon nilotica
Caspian Tern 33
Hydroprogne caspia
Royal Tern 35
Thalasseus maximus
Sandwich Tern 36
Thalasseus sandvicensis

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