migratory shorebirds

A recent petition seeks to have the migratory Great Salt Lake bird, Wilson's Phalarope listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The fourth biannual survey of the Intermountain West’s shorebirds took place in August, seeing numbers on par with surveys taken in the 1980s.

Shorebirds are a diverse group of birds including sandpipers, plovers, avocets, oystercatchers and phalaropes. There areapproximately 217 recognized species globally, 81 of which occur in the Americas for all or part of their lifecycle with 52 species breeding inNorth America, many of whom visit Utah.

The latest shorebird surveys were completed in late April this year.