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<br />A-18 <br />Common Name <br />Scientific Name Habitat 1 <br />Potential <br />Occurrence in <br />Project Area <br />and riparian zones. <br />Peregrine falcon <br />Falco peregrinus <br />Nests on high cliff faces, often near <br />water; forages in adjacent habitats. Yes <br />Prairie falcon <br />Falco mexicanus <br />Nests in cavities on cliffs, rock outcrops <br />adjacent to open grassland, shrublands. Yes <br />Snowy plover <br />Charadrius alexandrinus <br />Barren or sparsely vegetated alkaline <br />flats and river bars. No <br />Mountain plover <br />Charadrius montanus <br />Short-grass prairie and shrub-steppe <br />landscapes. No <br />Long-billed curlew <br />Numenius americanus <br />Short-grass grasslands, wheat fields, dry <br />land agriculture near water. No <br />Yellow-billed cuckoo <br />Coccyzus americanus <br />Riparian forested habitats dominated by <br />cottonwoods. No <br />Flammulated owl <br />Otus flammeolus <br />Nests in forest of ponderosa pine and <br />Douglas-fir with aspen, and in aspen <br />stands. <br />Yes <br />Burrowing owl <br />Athene cunicularia <br />Nests in burrows, especially prairie dog / <br />badger burrows in grasslands, desert <br />shrub. <br />No <br />Lewis’s woodpecker <br />Melanerpes lewis <br />Nests in open stands of cottonwood <br />riparian or urban stands, also in aspen, <br />oak shrub. <br />Yes <br />Willow flycatcher <br />Empidonax traillii <br />Dense riparian habitats along rivers, <br />streams, or other wetlands. No <br />Gray vireo <br />Vireo vicinior <br />Nests in open pinyon-juniper stands with <br />mountain mahogany, deciduous shrub <br />interspersed. <br />Yes <br />Pinyon jay <br />Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus <br />Nest in pinyon and/or juniper <br />woodlands, feed/cache pinyon nuts, <br />juniper berries. <br />Yes <br />Juniper titmouse <br />Baeolophus griseus <br />Nests in pinyon and/or juniper open or <br />dense woodlands, often intermixed with <br />Gambel oak. <br />Yes <br />Veery <br />Catharus fuscescens <br />Damp deciduous/mixed woodlands with <br />dense understory, wood swaps/lowlands, <br />and damp ravines. <br />No <br />Bendire’s thrasher <br />Toxostoma bendirei <br />Open farmlands, grasslands, and brushy <br />arid to semi-arid deserts; breeds mainly <br />in grasslands, shrublands or woodlands. <br />No <br />Grace’s warbler <br />Dendroica graciae <br />Open montane forests, especially oaks, <br />junipers, firs, and pines. Yes <br />Brewer’s sparrow <br />Spizella breweri <br />Nests in sagebrush, occasionally <br />greasewood, rabbitbrush in desert <br />valleys. <br />No <br />Grasshopper sparrow <br />Ammodramus savannarum Grasslands with few scattered shrubs. No <br />Chestnut-collared longspur <br />Calcarius ornatus <br />Shortgrass or mixed-grass habitats <br />heavily grazed or recently burned. No <br />Black rosy-finch <br />Leucosticte atrata <br />Alpine areas usually near rock piles and <br />cliffs; winters in mountain meadows, <br />high deserts, valleys, and plains. <br />No