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Colorado Endangered, Threatened and Species of Special Concern

COMMON  NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

STATUS*

American Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus anatum SC

Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus ST

Burrowing Owl

Athene cunicularia ST
Columbian Sharp-Tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus SC
Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis SC

Greater Sage-Grouse 
  Statewide Conservation Plan
  Local Working Group Plans

Centrocercus urophasianus SC
Greater Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis tabida SC

Gunnison Sage-Grouse
  Rangewide Conservation Plan
  Local Working Group Plans

Centrocercus minimus SC
Least Tern Sterna antillarum FE, SE

Lesser Prairie-Chicken

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus ST
Long-Billed Curlew Numenius americanus SC
Mexican Spotted Owl  Strix occidentalis lucida FT, ST

Mountain Plover

Charadrius montanus SC
Piping Plover Charadrius melodus circumcinctus FT, ST

Plains Sharp-Tailed Grouse

Tympanuchus phasianellus jamesii SE
Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus FE, SE
Western Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus SC
Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus SC

Whooping Crane

Grus americana FE, SE

*Status Codes:

FE = Federally Endangered
FT = Federally Threatened
SE = State Endangered
ST = State Threatened 
SC = State Special Concern (not a statutory category)

Last Updated: 6/12/2009