Publication Type:
ReportSource:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Region, Portland, p.205 (2006)Call Number:
U06IVE01IDUSURL:
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/migratorybirds/PDF/IWWCP.pdfKeywords:
Aechmophorus clarkia, Aechmophorus occidentalis, American bittern, Ardea herodias, black tern, black-crowned night-heron, Botaurus lentiginosus, Butorides virescens, California gull, Chlidonias niger, Clark’s grebe, eared grebe, Egretta thula, Forster’s tern, Franklin’s gull, Great Blue Heron, greater sandhill crane, green heron, Grus canadensis, Ixobrychus exilis, Larus californicus, Larus pipixcan, least bittern, lesser sandhill crane, Nycticorax nycticorax, pied-billed grebe, Podiceps nigricollis, Podilymbus podiceps, Porzana Carolina, Rallus limicola, snowy egret, sora, Sterna forsteri, SWAP, Virginia rail, Western GrebeAbstract:
This Intermountain West Waterbird Conservation Plan (IWWCP) is one of several regional step-down plans designed to implement the North American Waterbird Conservation Plan (2002) and was developed with the assistance of the Intermountain West Waterbird Working Group. The Intermountain West’s dispersed high mountain lakes, large terminal hyper-saline lakes, marshes, playas, rivers, streams, riparian zones, and fresh and brackish wetlands host about 40 waterbird species, including many or most of the world’s California Gulls, Eared Grebes, White-faced Ibises, and American White Pelicans. For the purpose of this plan, waterbirds ranked as being of high or moderate conservation concern are considered priorities for conservation action in the Intermountain West. Brief species profiles summarize the status and conservation needs of each of these 21 priority waterbirds. Waterbirds using this region are highly adaptable to constantly changing wetland conditions and depend on a regional-scale association of wetlands to meet their habitat and forage requirements during various stages of their annual life cycle. The competing demands for water supporting human uses such as agriculture, development, and recreation pose the greatest threats to regional waterbird populations. Contaminants (e.g., mercury, DDT and its breakdown products) are also a significant threat to the region’s waterbirds. Because of the West’s feast-or-famine water regime, the IWWCP stresses the necessity of conserving a network of high-quality wetland habitats with secure water sources to provide options for waterbirds during drought and flood cycles. This plan also identifies key conservation actions, including developing and implementing monitoring strategies to acquire population and other information and their trends; preserving and enhancing sufficient high-quality habitat; informing the public, decision-makers, and land managers about the importance, biology, and management of these species; ensuring that coordinated conservation efforts are in place regionally, nationally, and internationally to address conservation priorities; developing partnerships to facilitate coordinated waterbird conservation, management, and funding sources.
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ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Birds
Reference Code: U06IVE01IDUS
Suggested citation: Ivey, G.L., and C.P. Herziger. 2006. Intermountain West Waterbird Conservation Plan, Version 1.2. A plan associated with the Waterbird Conservation for the Americas Initiative. Published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Region, Portland, Oregon.
SWAP (2/19/2016) citation:
Ivey GL, Herziger CP. 2006. Intermountain West waterbird conservation plan, version 1.2. A plan associated with the Waterbird Conservation for the Americas Initiative. Portland (OR): US Fish and Wildlife Service. [accessed 2015 May 5]. http://www.fws.gov/pacific/migratorybirds/PDF/IWWCP.pdf