Chapter 3 North Carolina Species
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats • Continue regular, periodic aerial heronry surveys in the Coastal Plain ecoregion. Return to a subset of heronries to conduct ground counts for nests of long-legged wading bird SGCN. Coastal Plain ecoregion Long-legged wading birds • Continue to monitor Wood Stork nest abundance. • Continue surveys for breeding, wintering, and migratory seabirds and shorebirds throughout the year to document population status, trends, and distribution. Document distribution, past and present, using survey data and mapping efforts. American Oystercatcher Piping Plover Red Knot Wilson’s Plover • Continue support for long-term monitoring of SGCN landbirds. Piedmont Ecoregion Early Successional Longleaf Pine Riparian habitats • Continue current monitoring of marsh nesting colonial waterbirds, especially the Laughing Gull. • Expand monitoring frameworks to account for species that are not suited to traditional long- term monitoring protocols or for species missed under systematic monitoring due to small population sizes or limited ranges in North Carolina. Hawks Owls Alder Flycatcher Black-capped Chickadee Brown Creeper • Initiate long-term monitoring of breeding and wintering birds in pocosin habitats on public lands and industrial forestland. Pocosin • Initiate long-term monitoring related to snag ecology and cavity-nesting birds during different seasons. Brown-headed Nuthatch Northern Flicker Red-headed Woodpecker • Monitor status and reproductive success of shorebirds. Black Skimmer Caspian Tern Chuck-will’s-widow Common Nighthawk Eastern Whip-poor-will Least Tern Piping Plover
Common Tern Forster’s Tern Gull-billed Tern
• Continue monitoring beach-nesting species due to their high vulnerability from habitat loss because of sea level rise and coastal erosion.
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