[TN-Bird] PIF North American Landbird Conservation Plan

PIF North American Landbird Conservation Plan
 
I am very pleased to announce that the Partners in Flight North
American
Landbird Conservation Plan (Rich et al. 2004) - otherwise referred to
as
the PIF Continental Plan - is now available on-line in downloadable
form on
the Partners in Flight website (http://www.partnersinflight.org).
 
The PIF North American Landbird Conservation Plan (the Plan) provides
a
continental systhesis of priorities and objectives that will guide
landbird
conservation actions at national and international scales.  The scope
for
this Plan is the 448 species of native landbirds that regularly breed
in
the U.S. and Canada.  Fully 100 of these species warrant inclusion on
the
PIF Watch List, due to a combination of threats to their habitats,
declining populations, small population sizes, or limited
distributions.
Of these, 28 species require immediate action to protect small
remaining
populations, and 44 more are in need of management to reverse
long-term
declines.
 
This Plan also highlights the need for stewardship of the species and
landscapes characteristic of each portion of the continent, identifying
158
species (including 66 on the Watch List) that are particularly
representative of large avifaunal biomes, and whose needs should be
considered in conservation planning.  Taken together, the pool of
Watch
List and Stewardship Species represent the landbirds of greatest
continental importance for conservation action.  Although the
recommended
actions may vary from region to region, no area in North America is
without
a conservation need for landbirds.
 
The Plan is accessible in four sections using two PDF versions (one for
web
viewing and one higher quality version for printing).   You can go to
the
PIF website and click on the picture of the plan cover (upper right
hand
box) and it will take you to this new resource.  Or you can go to it
directly at http://www.partnersinflight.org/cont_plan 
 
PIF Continental Watch List Species Research and Monitoring Needs
 
As a supplement to the Plan, we have developed a series of species
accounts
for each of the 100 Continental Watch List species identified in the
Plan,
providing some basic information, references, and a summary of research
and
monitoring needs collected from various PIF resources, such as the
Bird
Conservation Plans and a recent monitoring needs assessment, and the
Birds
of North America (BNA) accounts.  You can access these accounts through
a
link on the Plan page (in the colored box) or directly by going to
http://www.partnersinflight.org/WatchListNeeds 
 
Credit goes to Cornell Lab of Ornithology for the publication of the
Plan
and the creation of the PDFs, with funding support from USDA Forest
Service.  Janet Ruth, as the PIF Research Working Group chair, is
responsible for developing the Watch List Species Research and
Monitoring
Needs resource.
 
Michael Roedel, State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747 Nashville, TN 37204
 
http://www.state.tn.us/twra
 

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