Chapter 3 North Carolina Species
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats • Evaluate whether Breeding Bird Survey routes or point counts need to be established in selected areas or habitats and more attention paid to the migration period and wintering ecology of birds using early successional habitats.
Early Successional
• Add more Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) stations and migration banding stations.
Migratory birds
• Monitor Henslow’s Sparrow population and distribution at Voice of America (VOA) sites in eastern North Carolina to determine population trends.
Grasslands
Early Successional
Henslow’s Sparrow
• Continue annual monitoring of Peregrine Falcon nest cliffs to assess population status.
High-Elevation Rocks and Cliffs
Peregrine Falcon
• Continue long-term monitoring and banding work on Eastern Painted Bunting in support of the USGS Painted Bunting Working Group multi-state efforts
• Continue long-term monitoring of active territories, successful breeding pairs, and fledged eagles.
Bald Eagle
• Continue long-term monitoring of birds that use early successional and mature habitats on game lands, national and state forests and parks, and National Wildlife Refuges.
Early Successional
Mature forests
• Address monitoring needs for montane bird populations particularly for species that may be found at the upper or lower ranges of this habitat.
Montane forests
Canada Warbler Cerulean Warbler
Northern Saw-whet Owl Pine Siskin Red Crossbill Rose-breasted Grosbeak Veery Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Alder Flycatcher Black-billed Cuckoo Blackburnian Warbler Brown Creeper
Chestnut-sided Warbler Golden-crowned Kinglet Golden-winged Warblers Hermit Thrush
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