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Birds of Nebraska: Newspaper Accounts, 1854-1923
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Species List: American Avocet ( Recurvirostra americana )

Common name: American Avocet

Family: Recurvirostridae

Scientific name: Recurvirostra americana

Alternate names: avosit


Related articles:

  • Nebraska Notes.
  • Annual Fall Hunt. Of the Omaha Sportsmen's Club. Who Were Out and Where they Hunted - Count of the Game.
  • Spring Birds of Nebraska.
  • [Signs of Delightful Spring and Hunting Grounds Along the Bottoms of the Platte River at Rogers].
  • [Duck Hunting at the Lakes and Sloughs North of Cody].
  • A Week in Nebraska.
  • In the Lugenbeel Marshes. Sunrise and Sunset on the Lovely Waters of the Raccoon. An October Goose and Duck Shoot. Camped in a Pocket of the Hills - Our Blind in the Rushes - A Battle With the Birds - The Day's Work and Repose.
  • Nebraska's Game Fields.
  • The Birds of Omaha. A List of the Species Observed In and About the City of Omaha.
  • The Bird Fauna of the Salt Basin, near Lincoln.



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