WSP01978

• File Number: 8460.500
• Description: Platte River Recovery Plan
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 9/1/1990
• Author: USFWS
• Title: Interior Population of the Least Tern - Recovery Plan
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

Table 7 (continued)
Approximate
length of river
Number of adult stretch (km) where
least terns nesting least terns
Location 1985 1986 1987 1988 intermittently occur Source
18. Arkansas River, Arkansas 50 80 130 119 256 (Smith and Shepherd 1985, K. Smith 1986,
(above Little Rock) Smith et a1. 1987)
19. Arkansas River, Oklahoma 78 200 200 119 (Hoffman 1986, L. Hill personal communication)
20. Quivira National 48 48 54 (Boyd 1986, 1987)
Wildlife Refuge,Kansas
(Rattlesnake Creek of
Arkansas River)
....
..... 21. Adobe Creek Reservoir 6 10 (Barbara Campbell, personal communication)
Colorado
22. Salt Plains 140 210 (Boyd 1986, 1987)
National Wildlife
Refuge, Oklahoma
(Salt Fork of the
Arkansas River)
23. Cimarron River, Kansas 82 150 132 121 (Boyd 1986, 1987)
.and Oklahoma
24. Optima Reservoir, 46 52 60 38 (Boyd 1986, 1987; L. Hill)
Oklahoma (Beaver River)
25. Canadian River, western 127 182 20 16 253 (McCament and Thompson 1985, 1987; U. S. Fish and
Oklahoma and Texas Wildlife Service, unpublished data)