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Show 209 14. Red- sided Garter Snake; Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis Say 15. Western Yellow- bellied Racer; Coluber constrictor mormon Baird and Girard 16. Desert Striped Whipsnake; Masticophis taeniatus taeniatus Hallowell 17. Great Basin Gopher Snake; Pituophis catenifer deserticola Stejneger 18. Desert Night Snake; Eypsiglena torquata deserticola Tanner 19. Great Basin Rattlesnake; Crotalus viridis lutosus Klauber BIRDS Studies of the avian fauna in the Great Salt Lake region are numerous. However, most of the available information deals with the colonial- nesting birds of the Great Salt Lake Islands, principally the California Gull ( Larus californicus) and White Pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos). In 1852, Stansbury was the first to document island nesting, but before this documentation, in 1848, Carrington directed a party of men to Antelope and Fremont Islands where they found vast nesting areas. Of the 257 species seen in the Great Salt Lake study area, 117 reportedly nest in the area. There are 29 species classified as abundant, 63 common, 77 occasional, 73 rare and 15 accidental or out of their range. Concerning habitat preference, 112 species are associated almost exclusively with the extensive marshland areas of the Lake. The most prominent of these species are the loons, grebes, ducks, geese, heron, ibis plovers, sandpipers, phalaropes, gulls, and terns. Most of the remaining |