3.3 Birds
structures on migrating songbirds is unknown. More efort into monitoring migrating and post-breeding songbirds is warranted.
Nonnative predators such as feral and free-ranging cats have been implicated as a major source of direct mortality to birds in general (Loss et al. 2013) . Tere is a lack of understanding of predator communities and the increase of many species found along the coastline (e.g., ghost crabs, large-bodied gulls, Raccoons, foxes, Coyotes) about the efect they are having on coastal bird populations. However, species-specifc vulnerability is unknown, as is their overall impact of predators to bird populations.
In addition to the SGCN listed in Table 3.7, the species for which there are research priori- ties because of knowledge gaps are identifed in Table 3.9.
T ABLE 3.9 Bird knowledge-gap priority species
Federal/ State Status*
Family
Scientifc Name Accipiter cooperii Aquila chrysaetos
Common Name Cooper’s Hawk Golden Eagle Mississippi Kite
Accipitridae
— — — — — — — —
Ictinia mississippiensis
Mergus merganser Butorides virescens Egretta rufescens
Anatidae Ardeidae
Common Merganser
Green Heron Reddish Egret
Pheucticus ludovicianus
Cardinalidae
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Spiza americana Certhia americana
Dickcissel
Certhiidae
Brown Creeper
—/SC
Charadrius semipalmatus Coccyzus erythropthalmus
Charadriidae Cuculidae Fringillidae
Semipalmated Plover Black-billed Cuckoo
— — — — — —
Spinus pinus Gavia immer
Pine Siskin
Gaviidae
Common Loon Tree Swallow American Pipit
Tachycineta bicolor Anthus rubescens Poecile atricapillus Oreothlypis peregrina Oreothlypis celata Setophaga castanea Setophaga coronata Setophaga magnolia Setophaga tigrina Vermivora cyanoptera Sphyrapicus varius
Hirundinidae Motacillidae
Paridae
Southern Appalachian Black-capped Chickadee
FSC/SC
Parulidae
Tennessee Warbler
— — — — — — — —
Orange-crowned Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler
Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Picidae
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