Endangered and Threatened Species Factsheets - Birds

There is a separate list of bird-related reports with information on a number of the endangered and/or threatened birds, as well as a list of bird references.

Letters in parentheses indicate date listed.

Endangered

(D) Piping Plover Charadrius melodus *
(H) Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
(H) Yellow-throated Warbler Dendroica dominica
(I)  Snowy Egret Egretta thula *
(B) Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus *
(H) Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorus
(D) Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
(F) Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
(H) Caspian Tern Sterna caspia
(D) Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
(D) Common Tern Sterna hirundo
(H) Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
(D) Barn Owl Tyto alba

Threatened

(I) Henslow's Sparrow Ammodramus henslowii
(D) Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
(D) Great Egret Casmerodius albus
(I) Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
(I) Spruce Grouse Falcipennis canadensis
(H) Cerulean Warbler Dendroica cerulea
(H) Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
(H) Yellow-Crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
(H) Kentucky Warbler Oporornis formosus
(H) Osprey Pandion haliaetus
(D) Greater Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus cupido
(H) Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
(H) Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrina

Delisted (as of 8/1/97)

(H) Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus