Falconiformes
Accipitridae: hawks and eagles
Osprey*
Swallow-tailed Kite*
Mississippi Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk Ý
Bald Eagle*
Northern Harrier (male and female)
Falconidae: falcons
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
American Kestrel (male and female)
Gruiformes
Gruidae:
cranes
Sandhill Crane*
Whooping Crane*
Rallidae:
rails and coots
Clapper Rail Ý
King Rail Ý
Virginia Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen (formerly called "Common Gallinule")
American Coot
Charadriiformes
Recurvirostridae: avocets and stilts
American Avocet
Black-necked Stilt
Charadriidae: plovers
Killdeer
Snowy Plover (nonbreeding plumage)
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover (no specimen in public exhibits)
American Golden Plover (non-breeding plumage) (formerly called
"Lesser Golden Plover")
Black-bellied Plover (non-breeding plumage)
Scolopacidae: sandpipers
Ruddy Turnstone (non-breeding plumage) [note: placed in Charadriidae
in Peterson]
Long-billed Curlew
Willet (non-breeding plumage)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper (non-breeding plumage)
Sanderling (non-breeding plumage)
Dunlin (non-breeding plumage)
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper (non-breeding plumage; note
that exhibit specimen is in breeding plumage)
Least Sandpiper (non-breeding plumage; note that exhibit
specimen is in breeding plumage)
Long-billed Dowitcher (non-breeding plumage; note that
exhibit specimen is in breeding plumage)
Wilson's Snipe (name recently changed
from "Common Snipe")
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope (breeding plumage female)
*see mounted specimens in public exhibit area
Ý note UV lights have faded the plumage of the exhibit
specimens