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Common Loon (Gavia immer) Found between elevations of 5,000 and 9,000 feet. Lakes and reservoirs lazger than 9 acres. Rare nester in Colorado. Greater Sandhill Crane (Gros canadensis) Found below 9,800 feet. Marshy areas along rivers, lakes, reservoirs, mudflats, open foraging areas including agricultural areas, moist meadows. Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexaridrinus) Rare to 6,000 feet, accidental to 9,000 feet. Not likely to be found on National Forest Lands. Mudflats, sandy shorelines, alkali flats around reservoirs. Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) Found usually below 5,000 feet, very rare to 9,000 feet. Not likely to be found on National Forest lands. Short-grass prairies, grasslands, shorelines, meadows, fields. Most nests close to standing water. White-faced Ibis (PleQadis chihi) White-faced ibis aze primarily a western species inhabiting marshlands and riparian habitats. These birds winter in the southern U.S. and Mexico. Habitat is almost exclusively ponds, mazshes, muddy pools, stream margins and river banks for breeding, feeding and resting. Nesting platforms aze made from dense toles, reeds and cattails. Birds are very colonial often nesting in rookeries of hundreds of birds in suitable habitat. .Rare at 7,500-9,100 feet. Usually common below 5,800 feet. Not likely to be found on National Forest lands. American Bittern (Botaurus Zentieinosus) Normally found below 9,300 feet. Not likely to be found on National Forest lands. Cattail marshes and sometimes adjacent wet meadows. Rarely outside of marshes around lakes and in riparian areas, primarily occur in this azea during in spring and fall migration. Black Tern (Charadrius niper) Usually found below below 8,100 feet. Reservoirs and lakes. Not likely to be found on National Forest Lands. Breeds in large cattail mazshes adjacent to open water. AMPHIBIANS/REPTILES Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma ti rinum) . Found below 12,000 feet. Almost any habitat below alpine where non- flowing water is close by for breeding. Uses burrows under logs, rocks, and underground in forests, meadows, canyons, deserts, and on edges of ponds and streams. In breeding season, found in lakes, ponds, reservoirs, temporary ponds in fields and meadows adjacent to forests, areas of temporary overflow in streams and pools, ten feet wide to several acres in size. Uses cleaz waters of lakes, glacial ponds, and beaver ponds but also turbid ponds polluted by livestock. Sunny ponds with