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These species include those on the Audubon WatchList (Red and Yellow),
species listed as Federally Endangered and Threatened and Federal Birds of Conservation Concern

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Trumpeter Swan Mottled Duck Spectacled Eider Sooty Grouse* Mountain Quail Montezuma Quail Scaled Quail* Yellow-billed Loon Clark's Grebe* Corey's Shearwater* Greater Shearwater* Manx Shearwater* Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Black Storm-Petrel Least Storm-Petrel Masked Booby* [Pacific] Brown Pelican Red-faced Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird* Reddish Egret Wood Stork Swallow-tailed Kite Snail Kite Bald Eagle Swainson's Hawk [Audubon's] Crested Caracara Aplomado Falcon Peregrine Falcon Yellow Rail [California] Clapper Rail [Light-footed] Clapper Rail [Yuma] Clapper Rail King Rail* [Hawaiian] Common Moorhen Limpkin [Mississippi] Sandhill Crane American Golden-Plover Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover American Oystercatcher Black Oystercatcher [Hawaiian] Black-necked Stilt Solitary Sandpiper Wandering Tattler* Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew* Lesser Yellowlegs* Hudsonian Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Marbled Godwit Black Turnstone Surfbird Red Knot Sanderling* Semipalmated Sandpiper* Western Sandpiper* White-rumped Sandpiper* Purple Sandpiper Rock Sandpiper Dunlin* Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Thayer's Gull* Yellow-footed Gull Iceland Gull* Ross's Gull* Bridled Tern* Gull-billed Tern Roseate Tern Least Tern Aleutian Tern Black Skimmer Razorbill Ancient Murrelet* Whiskered Auklet Green Parakeet* [Western] Yellow-billed Cuckoo Mangrove Cuckoo* Flammulated Owl Elf Owl Short-eared Owl Antillean Nighthawk Black Swift	Blue-throated Hummingbird* Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Elegant Trogon* Lewis's Woodpecker Williamson's Sapsucker Nuttall's Woodpecker Arizona Woodpecker White-headed Woodpecker Gilded Flicker [Southwest] Willow Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher (all except extimus) Thick-billed Kingbird Kauai Oo [San Clemente] Loggerhead Shrike Loggerhead Shrike (all except mearnsi) Gray Vireo Yellow-billed Magpie [Streaked] Horned Lark Mexican Chickadee* Oak Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch Bewick's Wren - [altus subspecies] Bewick's Wren - [bewicki subspecies] California Gnatcatcher Black-capped Gnatcatcher Wood Thrush Varied Thrush* Wrentit California Thrasher Le Conte's Thrasher Blue-winged Warbler Virginia's Warbler Lucy's Warbler Hermit Warbler Grace's Warbler Prairie Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson's Warbler Kentucky Warbler Canada Warbler Red-faced Warbler [Inyo] California Towhee Abert's Towhee Rufous-winged Sparrow Five-striped Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow* Black-chinned Sparrow [San Clemente] Sage Sparrow Lark Bunting* [Florida] Grasshopper Sparrow Baird's Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow [Cape Sable] Seaside Sparrow Harris's Sparrow McCown's Longspur Smith's Longspur Varied Bunting* Dickcissel Audubon's Oriole Black Rosy-Finch Brown-capped Rosy-Finch Lawrence's Goldfinch Apapane
* Species added to this list since originally posted in 2006. | Note Sooty Grouse - previously listed as Blue Grouse
The following species are no longer species of continental conservation concern: Brant, American Black Duck, Steller's Eider, Short-tailed Albatross, Little Blue Heron, Northern Harrier, Harris's Hawk, Prairie Falcon, Pacific Golden-Plover, American Woodcock, Wilson's Phalarope, Common Tern, Band-tailed Pigeon, Black-billed Cuckoo, Whiskered Screech-Owl [Cactus] Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Burrowing Owl, Chuck-will's-widow, Whip-poor-will, White-throated Swift, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Lucifer Hummingbird, Red-naped Sapsucker, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Tamaulipas Crow, Sedge Wren, Curve-billed Thrasher, Crissal Thrasher, Louisiana Waterthrush, Cassin's Sparrow, Botteri's Sparrow, Tricolored Blackbird Rusty Blackbird The following species are likely extinct and have been removed from the list: Hawaii Amakihi, Greater Akialoa, Kakawahie   Updated October 2010

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