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Northern Great Plains: Past inland breeding records are
<br />available for Piping Plovers in Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico,
<br />North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. In Montana,
<br />records include the following counties: Phillips, Sheridan, and
<br />McCone (Carlson and Skaar 1976). W omin records are limited to
<br />Laramie County (Cheyenne), Lincoln County (LaBarge, Fontanelle),
<br />and Oneida Lake (county unknown). Likewise, Piping Plovers have
<br />been irregular summer residents and migrants in Adams, Yuma,
<br />Washington, and Boulder counties in Colorado. One record exists
<br />for Eddy County, New Mexico (Bailey and Niedrach 1965).
<br />Piping Plovers have bred in the following North Dakota
<br />counties: McLean, Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Cass,
<br />Emmons, Sioux, Mercer, Oliver, Kidder, Divide, Eddy, Grand Forks,
<br />Ward, Logan, McHenry, McIntosh, McKenzie, Mountrail, Morton,
<br />Nelson, Pierce, Ramsey, Renville, Sheridan, Stutsman, and
<br />Williams (Stewart 1975, Haig 1986a). Breeding in South Dakota
<br />occurred in the Missouri Trench counties of: Clay, Hughes,
<br />Stanley, Sully, Union, and Yankton, with additional records from
<br />Codington, Day, and Miner counties in the Missouri coteau (Visher
<br />1915, Whitney et al. 1978). Nebraska records exist for counties
<br />along the Missouri, Loup, Niobrara, and Platte rivers (Bruner et
<br />al. 1904, Bent 1929, Tout 1947, Moser 1940, Heinemann 1944). In
<br />Iowa, Piping Plovers were regular migrants and summer residents.
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