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Common<br />

Name<br />

Table E-10. Protected Birds of the U.S. Atlantic Coast<br />

Scientific<br />

Name<br />

Bald eagle Haliaeetus<br />

leucocephalus<br />

Piping<br />

plover<br />

Roseate<br />

tern<br />

Whooping<br />

crane<br />

Wood<br />

stork<br />

Yellowshouldered<br />

blackbird<br />

Charadrius<br />

melodus<br />

Sterna<br />

dougallii<br />

dougallii<br />

Grus<br />

Americana<br />

Mycteria<br />

americana<br />

Agelains<br />

xanthomus<br />

Federal<br />

Status<br />

under<br />

ESA<br />

Source: USFWS 2006<br />

Notes: AD – Proposed Delisting<br />

CH – Critical Habitat in the ROI<br />

E – Federally listed as endangered<br />

NEP – Non-essential population<br />

T – Federally listed as threatened<br />

Distribution Migration Pattern<br />

T/AD Locally throughout<br />

most of North<br />

America, including<br />

coasts<br />

T/CH Atlantic coast, Great<br />

Lakes, Northern<br />

Great Plains, Gulf<br />

coast, and<br />

Caribbean. Critical<br />

habitat for wintering<br />

populations from<br />

North Carolina<br />

south to Florida.<br />

E Atlantic coast and<br />

Caribbean<br />

E-15<br />

Occurs year-round in many<br />

coastal areas. Breeds in<br />

spring, and some<br />

individuals migrate south<br />

during winter, while many<br />

remain in the northeast<br />

year-round.<br />

Breeds on sandy beaches in<br />

isolated colonies on the<br />

northeast coast and Great<br />

Lakes region from March<br />

to September, where they<br />

spend the summer.<br />

Winters along southeastern<br />

coast.<br />

Breeds on islands and<br />

protected sand spits.<br />

Occurs on northeast coast<br />

during spring and summer<br />

and migrates south as far as<br />

the Caribbean during fall<br />

and winter.<br />

NEP Virginia to Florida Winters in the Gulf coast<br />

of Texas October to April,<br />

when they migrate north to<br />

Canada.<br />

E South Carolina to<br />

Florida<br />

E/CH Critical habitat areas<br />

in southwest Puerto<br />

Rico and Isla Mona<br />

Breeds in Alabama,<br />

Florida, Georgia, and<br />

South Carolina.<br />

Resident species in Puerto<br />

Rico and Isla Mona.<br />

Nesting season April to<br />

October.

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