Birds of New York State: Conservation

Birds of New York State
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	Conservation

Conservation - Table 1

A comparison of past and present lists of species identified as either endangered, threatened, or of special concern in New York State. Species shared with the federal list prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are indicated by an asterisk. * indicates a species concurrently listed as endangered by the U.S. Department of the Interior. o indicates a species concurrently listed as threatened by the U.S. Department of the Interior. † indicates a species extirpated from New York State. There is no federal equivalent to the "Special Concern" category. The Piping Plover is federally listed as endangered for the Great Lakes region and threatened for the Atlantic coastal region. English names are those recommended by the American Ornithologists' Union (1998).


1987 List	Current List (as of 2001)

Endangered: Bald Eagle * Golden Eagle † Peregrine Falcon * Eskimo Curlew * † Piping Plover * o Least Tern Roseate Tern * Loggerhead Shrike Threatened: Osprey Red-shouldered Hawk Northern Harrier Spruce Grouse Common Tern Special Concern: Common Loon Least Bittern Cooper's Hawk Black Rail Upland Sandpiper Black Tern Barn Owl Short-eared Owl Common Nighthawk Common Raven Sedge Wren Eastern Bluebird Henslow's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Vesper Sparrow	Endangered: Bald Eagle o Golden Eagle † Peregrine Falcon * Spruce Grouse Black Rail Piping Plover * o Eskimo Curlew * † Roseate Tern * Black Tern Short-eared Owl Loggerhead Shrike † Threatened: Pied-billed Grebe Least Bittern Northern Harrier King Rail Upland Sandpiper Common Tern Least Tern Sedge Wren Henslow's Sparrow Special Concern: Common Loon American Bittern Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Black Skimmer Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Red-headed Woodpecker Horned Lark Golden-winged Warbler Cerulean Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Seaside Sparrow

28 species	38 species

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