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Common<br />

Name<br />

Table E-11. Protected Birds of the Gulf of Mexico<br />

Scientific<br />

Name<br />

Bald eagle Haliaeetus<br />

leucocephalus<br />

Brown<br />

pelican<br />

Pelecanus<br />

occidentalis<br />

Piping plover Charadrius<br />

melodus<br />

Whooping<br />

crane<br />

Grus<br />

Americana<br />

Wood stork Mycteria<br />

americana<br />

Source: USFWS 2006<br />

Notes: AD – Proposed Delisting<br />

CH – Critical Habitat in the ROI<br />

E – Federally listed as endangered<br />

T – Federally listed as threatened<br />

Federal<br />

Status<br />

under<br />

ESA<br />

E-16<br />

Distribution Migration Pattern<br />

T/AD Locally throughout<br />

most of North<br />

America, including<br />

coasts<br />

Winters along central<br />

and southeast coast and<br />

Texas coast with yearround<br />

populations in<br />

Florida and Gulf coasts<br />

east of Texas.<br />

E Texas to Mississippi Year-round resident in<br />

the southeast.<br />

T/CH Atlantic coast, Great<br />

Lakes, Northern Great<br />

Plains, Gulf of<br />

Mexico. Critical<br />

habitat for wintering<br />

populations entire<br />

Gulf Coast.<br />

E/CH Critical habitat is on<br />

Texas coast<br />

E Alabama (Mississippi<br />

Valley)<br />

Winters on the<br />

southeast and Gulf<br />

coasts and the<br />

Caribbean October to<br />

March. Breeding:<br />

Atlantic coast, Great<br />

Lakes, and Northern<br />

Great Plains.<br />

Winters in the Gulf<br />

coast of Texas October<br />

to April, when they<br />

migrate north to<br />

Canada.<br />

Breeds in Alabama,<br />

Florida, Georgia, and<br />

South Carolina.

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