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<br />Table 3
<br />Shorebird Use-Days on Monte Vista and Alamosa National Wildlife Refuges
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<br />
<br />(NWR )
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<br />Species
<br />
<br />Monte Vista NWR 1/
<br />1979 1980
<br />
<br />,...-.~,
<br />~__....J
<br />
<br />Killdeerl/
<br />Common snipel/
<br />American avoce~/
<br />Wilson's Phalaropel/
<br />B lack tern~./
<br />Least sandpiperl/
<br />Black-necked stil~/
<br />Long-billed dowitcher
<br />Forsters tern
<br />Marbled godwit
<br />Willett
<br />Lesser yellowlegs
<br />Longbilled-curlew~/
<br />Spotted sandpiper
<br />Franklin's gull
<br />Ringbilled gull
<br />Greater yellowlegs
<br />
<br />138,800
<br />24,625
<br />90,000
<br />46,000
<br />3,000
<br />6,000
<br />2,800
<br />25,700
<br />80
<br />300
<br />120
<br />900
<br />160
<br />
<br />Black-bellied plover
<br />Total
<br />
<br />24
<br />338,509
<br />
<br />26.3
<br />
<br />Use-days/acre
<br />
<br />Use-days/acre average
<br />
<br />146,150
<br />26,300
<br />65,000
<br />105,000
<br />2,100
<br />4,700
<br />450
<br />5,700
<br />
<br />500
<br />1,300
<br />1,500
<br />20
<br />5,400
<br />350
<br />
<br />364,470
<br />28.3
<br />
<br />27.3
<br />
<br />Alamosa NWR
<br />1979 1980
<br />
<br />125,942
<br />13,002
<br />57,000
<br />24,000
<br />5,700
<br />4,500
<br />
<br />6,300
<br />
<br />1,507
<br />
<br />10,400
<br />350
<br />2,100
<br />14
<br />
<br />250,815
<br />
<br />27.8
<br />
<br />97,950
<br />12,020
<br />40,050
<br />35,000
<br />1,850
<br />3,700
<br />
<br />3,500
<br />
<br />1,500
<br />
<br />7,000
<br />350
<br />
<br />204,170
<br />
<br />22.6
<br />
<br />25.2
<br />
<br />l/ Total acreage for Monte Vista NWR not including areas of crops, roads, and
<br />buildings is 12,876 acres.
<br />~/ Total acreage for Alamosa NWR not including areas of crops, roads, buildings,
<br />and Hansen Bluff is 10,357 acres.
<br />3/ Breeders.
<br />4/ Migratory birds of high Federal interest.
<br />
<br />6
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