Table 2.7. Waterfowl Observed in the Galveston Bay System (32, 33). 
Common Name 
Scientific Name 
Common Name 
Scientific Name 
Fulvous whistling 
Dendrocygna 
American wigeon 
Anas americana 
duck 
bicolor 
Canvasback 
Aythya valisineria 
Black-bellied whistling Dendrocygna 
Redhead 
Aythya americana 
duck 
autumnal is 
Ring-necked duck 
Aythya collaris 
Greater white-fronted 
Anser albifrons 
Greater scaup 
Aythya marila 
goose 
Lesser scaup 
Aythya affinis 
Snow goose 
Chen caerulescens 
Old squaw 
Clangula hyemalis 
Ross' goose 
Chen rossii 
Black scoter 
Melanitta nigra 
Canada goose 
Branta canadensis 
Surf scoter 
Melanitta 
Wood duck 
Aix sponsa 
perspicillata 
Green-winged teal 
Anas crecca 
White-winged scoter 
Melanitta fusca 
Mottled duck 
Anas fulvigula 
Common goldeneye 
Bucephala clangula 
Mallard 
Anas platyrhynchos 
Bufflehead 
Bucephala albeola 
Northern pintail 
Anas acuta 
Hooded merganser 
Lophodytes 
Blue-winged teal 
Anas discors 
cucullatus 
Cinnamon teal 
Anas cyanoptera 
Red-breasted merganser Mergus serrator 
Northern shoveler 
Anas dypeata 
Ruddy duck 
Oxyura jamaicensis 
Gadwall 
Anas strepera 
Masked duck 
Oxyura dominica 
Table 2.8. Shorebirds Recorded for the Galveston Bay System (33, 34). 
Common Na m e 
Black-bellied plover 
Lesser golden-plover 
Snowy plover 
Wilson's plover 
Semipalmated plover 
Piping plover 
Killdeer 
American oyster- 
catcher 
Black-necked stilt 
American avocet 
Greater yellowlegs 
Lesser yellowlegs 
Solitary sandpiper 
Willet 
Spotted sandpiper 
Upland sandpiper 
Eskimo curlew 
Whimbrel 
Sc ientific Name 
Pluvialis squatarola 
Pluvialis dominica 
Charadrius 
alexandrinus 
Charadrius wilsonia 
Charadrius 
semipalmatus 
Charadrius melodus 
Charadrius 
vociferus 
Haematopus 
palliatus 
Himantopus 
mexicanus 
Recurvirostra 
americana 
Tringa melanoleuca 
Tringa flavipes 
Tringa solitaria 
Catoptrophorus 
semipalmatus 
Actitis macularia 
Bartramia 
longicauda 
Numenius borealis 
Numenius 
phaeopus 
Common Name 
Long-billed curlew 
Marbled godwit 
Hudsonian godwit 
Ruddy tumstone 
Red knot 
Sanderling 
Sc ie ntif i c Name 
Numenius 
americanus 
Limosa fedoa 
Limosa haemastica 
Arenaria interpres 
Calidris canutus 
Calidris alba 
Semipalmatedsandpiper Calidris pusilla 
Western sandpiper Calidris mauri 
Least sandpiper Calidris minutilla 
White-rumped sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis 
Baird's sandpiper 
Pectoral sandpiper 
Dunlin 
Stilt sandpiper 
Buff-breasted sandpiper 
Short-billed dowitcher 
Long-billed dowitcher 
Common snipe 
American woodcock 
Wilson's phalarope 
Red-necked phalarope 
Red phalarope 
Calidris bairdii 
Calidris melanotos 
Calidris alpina 
Calidris 
himantopus 
Tryngitis 
subruficollis 
Limnodromus 
griseus 
Limnodromus 
scolopaceus 
Gallinago gallinago 
Scolopax minor 
Phalaropus tricolor 
Phalaropus lobatus 
Phalaropus 
fulicaria 
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