Find Mountain Plover

Another Colorado speciality found on eastern plains during summer months.  This is an Audubon Watchlist species. Similar in size to the ubiquitous Killdeer, the Mountain Plover is one of North America's endemic grassland bird species. Once plentiful on the short grass prairies of western North America, this species has declined steadily with the alteration of prairie habitat, and the concurrent reduction in the number of herbivorous mammals (such as bison, elk, pronghorn and prairie dogs) with which it is closely associated. Based on Breeding Bird Survey data, the global population of Mountain Plovers has declined by 50 % since 1966.

Mountain Plover Locations
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Weld County
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WCR 120/Hwy 85 .4 miles S on E (possible)
East side of Hwy 85, drive 1.0 miles N of WCR 114, scan suitable habitat on E until .3 miles N of WCR 120 (possible)
Hwy 14/WCR 51 all corners, especially SE (probable)
Dyer Ranch .25 miles E of Hwy 14/WCR 51 on S (probable)
WCR 51 on E and W (between Hwy 14/WCR 90) (possible)
WCR 90/WCR 51 NE and NW (possible)
WCR 94/WCR 61 NW (possible)
WCR 92/WCR 65 drive/hike N (possible)
WCR 104/57 1.5 on E (possible)
WCR 94/WCR 63 on N (possible)
WCR 96/WCR 77 1.8 miles W (possible)
WCR 67/Hwy 392 on SE (possible)
WCR 45/WCR 122 0.5 miles S on W (rare)
Stoneham area along Hwy 14 (rare)
Hwy 77/WCR 96 NE (rare)
WCR 90/WCR 45 1.1 miles E on N (rare)
WCR 43/WCR 94 SW (rare)
Hwy 14/WCR 65 SE Mile Marker 170 (rare)
WCR 100/Hwy 390 2.85 miles W of Hwy 390 on S (rare)
WCR 61/WCR 90 0.5 miles N (rare)
WCR 106/25 0.5 W (rare)
WCR 37/WCR 122 S of WCR 122 on W (rare)
WCR 100/41 S side fallow fields (rare)
WCR 96/43 along WCR 96 between WCR 41/43 and along WCR 43 between WCR 96/94 (rare)
WCR 98/37 W on S side of WCR 98 in 1st fallow field (rare)

El Paso County
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Chico Basin Ranch (possible)
Hanover/Squirrel Creek Road N of Fountain (rare)
Bohart Ranch (possible)

Baca County
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Pasture G across from Washington Work Center on Hwy 385, 7.0 miles S of Springfield (possible)
Baca CR C north of Two Buttes Reservoir (possible)

Kiowa County
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Neegronda Reservoir (possible)

Bent County
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Blue Lake aka Adobe Creek Reservoir (possible)

Kit Carson County
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Flagler area - Flagler CR 6 3.0 miles N of Flagler on W. Also, 3.5 miles S of I-70 on Flagler CR 5 on W (possible)