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Field Guide for all the Birds of North America

Threatened Birds

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Lives, Habitats & Pictures of the Threatened Birds

Information, images and range maps on over 1,000 birds of North America, including sub-species, vagrants, introduced birds and possibilities

North American Bird Search Box

There are at least eight bird species native to North America that are recognized as threatened birds, and being so, are given special status. Having this recognition, threatened birds are protected and their habitat will most likely be protected as well. Surveys of the local and global population of these bird species will have this designated status. More studies will be encouraged and with solutions forthcoming, hopefully the decline will stop. If this can be accomplished, then over time, given this protection and extra attention, the populations will most likely increase.

Included in the threatened birds list are the sub-species or races of birds including the Great Lakes area sub-species of the Piping Plover, the western sub-species of the Roseate Tern and the southern sub-species of the Northern Spotted Owl, also known as the Mexican Spotted Owl.

Click on the bird names listed below to see pictures of the Threatened Birds seen in North America

Florida Scrub-Jay

Lesser Prairie-Chicken

Marbled Murrelet

Piping Plover

Roseate Tern

Greater Sage-Grouse

Spotted Owl

Spectacled Eider

Steller's Eider

Snowy Plover

References to Other Bird Sites:

Avibase - the world bird database This site provides the user with a complete list of bird species, broken down per country, or in the example of the US or Canada, per state and province. Here, bird species names are available in other languages, a great asset to be used as a translation of foreign bird names.

ABA - American Birding Association This site represents an organization that maintains official records of all birds species that have been proven to have been seen inside the perimeters of the North American Continent and the surrounding bodies of water. Regular revised versions are posted to keep the bird list current at all times. This is the list used by all serious birders over their lifetime. You may be aware of the movie called the "Big Year". It was with this list that all the competing birders used in an attempt to set a new record as to how many bird species that could be seen by an individual birder in one calendar year.

I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.

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