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Prairie Warbler, Photo by Steve Maslowski/USFWS

This phase of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act project has focused on the conservation of Important Bird Areas supporting populations of 45 migrant landbird species, all of which are on the Audubon WatchList and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Birds of Conservation Concern list. Some of these are categorized as globally threatened species that are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

Through analyses of data compiled to date in the Important Bird Areas database, 965 identified or recognized Important Bird Areas throughout the U.S. reported the occurrence of one or more of these species in breeding, wintering, or in passage.

See the table below for information on the focal landbird species. To view list of Important Bird Areas for each species, click species name. View full list of sites here.

	Species	IUCN	Audubon WatchList	USFWS			Potential Criteria
1	Baird's Sparrow	-	Red	BCC			B1
2	Bell's Vireo	N	Red	BCC			A1
3	Bendire's Thrasher	V	Red	BCC			A1
4	Bicknell's Thrush	V	Red	BCC			A1
5	Black Swift	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
6	Black-billed Cuckoo	-	-	BCC			B1
7	Black-chinned Sparrow	-	Red	BCC			B1
8	Brewer's Sparrow	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
9	Burrowing Owl	-	-	T/E			B1
10	Canada Warbler	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
11	Cassin's Sparrow	-	-	BCC			B1
12	Cerulean Warbler	V	Yellow	BCC			A1
13	Chestnut-collared Longspur	N	-	BCC			A1
14	Chuck-will's-widow	-	-	BCC			B1
15	Dickcissel	-	-	BCC			B1
16	Ferruginous Hawk	-	-	BCC			B1
17	Flammulated Owl	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
18	Golden-winged Warbler	N	Red	BCC			A1
19	Grace's Warbler	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
20	Grasshopper Sparrow	-	-	BCC			B1
21	Gray Vireo	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
22	Horned Lark (strigata subspecies)	-	-	BCC			B1
23	Kentucky Warbler	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
24	Lawrence's Goldfinch	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
25	Loggerhead Shrike	-	-	BCC			B1
26	Louisiana Waterthrush	-	-	BCC			B1
27	McCown's Longspur	-	-	BCC			B1
28	Olive-sided Flycatcher	N	Yellow	BCC			A1
29	Painted Bunting	N	Yellow	BCC			A1
30	Prairie Warbler	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
31	Prothonotary Warbler	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
32	Red-naped Sapsucker	-	-	BCC			B1
33	Rufous Hummingbird	-	-	BCC			B1
34	Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	-	-	BCC			B1
35	Sedge Wren	-	-	BCC			B1
36	Short-eared Owl	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
37	Sprague's Pipit	V	Yellow	BCC			A1
38	Swainson's Hawk	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
39	Swainson's Warbler	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
40	Tricolored Blackbird	E	Red	BCC			A1
41	Whip-poor-will	-	-	BCC			B1
42	Williamson's Sapsucker	-	-	BCC			B1
43	Wood Thrush	-	Yellow	BCC			B1
44	Worm-eating Warbler	-	-	BCC			B1
45	Yellow-billed Cuckoo (occidentalis subspecies)	-	-	BCC			B1
IUCN Codes: E=Endangered, NT=Near-threatened, V=Vulnerable; USFWS Codes: BCC=Birds of Conservation Concern; Criteria: A1=Species of Global Conservation Concern, B1=Species of Continental Conservation Concern

For general information about the Important Bird Areas Program, see http://www.audubon.org/bird/iba/. To search the IBA Search tool for information on additional Important Bird Areas throughout the country, click here.

This project has been possible thanks to the generous support of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Grant of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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May 2009