Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River

• Description: Related to the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 4/1/2004
• Author: National Research Council of the National Academies
• Title: Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River - Prepublication Copy
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River
Figure 1 -3 Whooping crane. Source: Photograph by George Archibald, International Crane
Foundation, 1997. Reprinted with permission; copyright 1997, International Crane Foundation.
Figure 1 -4 Piping plover. Source: USFWS 2004a.
mines. In 2001, the population was estimated at about 85 nesting pairs on the Platte River Q.
Dinan, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, pers. comm., 2003). Interior least terns,
• federally listed as endangered under the ESA in 1985, are also small migratory birds that use
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