Birds protected by federal law

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
BUREAU OF SPORT FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE
WASHINGTON, D.C.

WL 472

20240

BIRDS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW

Compiled May 1966
Division of Management and Enforcement

Birds that move across State and National borders are recognized as national resources and are afforded Federal
protection in all areas subject to U.S. jurisdiction, pursuant to the provisions of Federal laws and treaties with Great
Britain (for Canada) and Mexico. The species of birds protected are listed here by the most widely used common name
or names fcllowed by the scientific name in italics and, when applicable, the A.O.U. number as designated in the fifth
edition of the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-List of North American Birds. The birds are listed alphabetically
by common name in two categories, ‘“Game Birds” and ‘‘Nongame Birds,” except that all ducks are grouped under the
heading ‘‘Ducks”’ in ‘‘Game Birds” and are alphabetical within that group.

AurHority: Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755; 16 U.S.C. 703-711), as amended, and the Eagle Act
of June 8, 1940 (54 Stat. 250; 16 U.S.C. 668), as amended.

GAME BIRDS

Avocet, American Recurvirostra americana (225)
Brant, Branta bernicla (173)
Black Branta nigricans (174)
Coot, American Fulica americana (221)
Caribbean (Gallinazo, Gallareta) Fulica caribaea
Crane, Sandhill (Greater, Lesser or Little Brown, and Florida) Grus cana -
densis (205)
Whooping Grus americana (204)
Curlew, Bristle-thighed Numenius tahitiensis (268)
Eskimo Numenius borealis (266)
Long-billed Numenius americanus (264)
Dove, Bridled Quail Geotrygon mystacea
Ground Columbigallina passerina (320)
Inca Scardafella inca (321)
Mourning Zenaidura macroura (316)
Ruddy Quail Geotrygon montana (322.1)
White-fronted Leptotila verreauzi (318)
White-winged Zenaida asiatica (319)
Zenaida Zenaida aurita (317)
Dowitcher, Long-billed Limnodromus scolopaceus (232)
Short-billed Limnodromus griseus (231)

Ducks:

Bahama Duck Anas bahamensis (143.1)

Black Duck Anas rubripes (133a)

Bufflehead Bucephala albeola (153)

Canyasback Aythya valisineria (147)

Eider, Common (Northern, American, and Pacific) Somateria mollissima

(159)
King Somateria spectabilis (162)
Spectacled Lampronetta fischeri (158)
Steller’s Polysticta stelleri (157)

Gadwall Anas strepera (135)

Goldeneye, Barrow’s Bucephala islandica (152
Common Bucephala clangula (151)

Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus (155)

Hawaiian Duck (Koloa) Anas wyvilliana

Laysan Duck (Laysan teal) Anas laysanensis

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (132)

Masked Duck Oryura dominica (168)

Merganser, Common (American) Mergus merganser (129)
Hooded Lophodytes cucullatus (131)
Red-breasted Mergus serrator (130)

Mexican Duck (New Mexican) Anas diazi (133.1)

Mottled Duck (Florida and Louisiana) Anas fulvigula (134)

Oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis (154)

Pintail Anas acuta (143)

Redhead Aythya americana (146)

Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris (150)

Ruddy Duck Oryura jamaicensis (167)

Scaup, Greater Aythya marila (148)

Lesser Aythya affinis (149)

Scoter, Common Oidemia nigra (163)

Surf Melanitta perspicillata (166)
White-winged Melanitta deglandi (165)

Shoveler Spatula clypeata (142)

Teal, Blue-winged Anas discors (140)
Cinnamon Anas cyanoptera (141)
Common (European) Anas crecca (138)
Green-winged Anas carolinensis (139)

Tree Duck, Black-bellied Dendrocygna autumnalis (177)
Fulvous Dendrocygna bicolor (178)

West Indian (Yaguaza) Dendrocygna arborea

Widgeon, American Mareca americana (137)

Eurapean Mareca penelope (136)

Wood Duck Air sponsa (144)

DUCKS

Dunlin (Red-backed Sandpiper) Erolia alpina (243)

Gallinule, Common Gallinula chloropus (219)
Purple Porphyrula martinica (218)
Godwit, Bar-tailed Limosa lapponica (250)
Hudsonian Limosa haemastica (251)
Marbled Limosa fedoa (249)
Goose. Barnacle Branta lewcopsis (175)
Blue Chen caerulescens (169.1)
Canada (Lesser and Cackling) Branta canadensis (172)
Emperor Philacte canagica (176)
Hawaiian (Nene) Branta sandvicensis
Ross’ Chen rossii (170)
Snow Chen hyperborea (169)
White-fronted (Tule) Anser albifrons (171)
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus (273)
Knot Calidris canutus (234)
Oystercatcher, American Haematopus palliatus (286)
Black Haematopus bachmani (287)
Phalarope, Northern Lobipes lobatus (223)
Red Phalaropus fulicavius (222)
Wilson’s Steganopus tricolor (224)
Pigeon, Band-tailed Columba fasciata (312)
Puerto Rican (Paloma Sabanera, Blue Pigeon) Columba inornata
Red-billed Columba flavirostris (313)
Scaly-naped (Paloma Turca) Columba squamosa (314.1)
White-crowned Columba leucocephala (314)
Plover, American Golden (Atlantic and Pacific) Pluvialis dominica (272)
Black-bellied Squatarola squatarola (270)
Mongolian Charadrius mongolus (279)
Mountain Eupoda montana (281)
Piping Charadrius melodus (277)
Semipalmated Cheradrius semipalmatus (274)
Snowy Charadrius alerandrinus (278)
Upland Bartramia longicauda (261)
Wilson’s Charadrius wilsonia (280)
Rail, Black Laterallus jamaicensis (216)
Clapper Rallus longirostris (210)
King Rallus elegans (208)
Sora Porzana carolina (214)
Virginia Rallus limicola (212)
Yellow Coturnicops noveboracensis (215)
Yellow-bellied (Gallareta Chiquita) Porzana /laviventer
Sanderling Crocethia alba (248)
Sandpiper, Baird’s Erolia bairdii (241)
Buff-breasted Tryngites subruficollis (262) =
Curlew Erolia ferruginea (244) =
Least Erolia minutilla (242) bai |
Pectoral Erolia melanotos (239) Ex
Purple Erolia maritima (235) =a
Rock (Aleutian) Erolia ptilocnemis (235a-d)) =)
Semipalmated Ereunetes pusillus (246) & = ")
Sharp-tailed Erolia acuminata (238) re) —
Solitary Tringa solitario (256) da}
Spotted Actitis macularia (263) Saal bes
Stilt Micropalama himantopus (233) 05 Gt
Western Erewnetes mauri (247) et
White-rumped Erolia fuscicollis (240) A.
Snipe, Common (Wilson’s) Capella gallinago (230) bad
Stilt, Black-necked Himantopus mezicanus (226) 2
Surfbird Aphriza virgata (282) oY
Swan, Trumpeter Olor buccinator (181) = ce
Whistling Olor columbianus (180) 5
Tattler, Wandering Heteroscelus incanum (259) —
Turnstone, Black Arenaria melanocephala (284)
Turnstone, Ruddy Arenaria interpres (283)
Whimbrel (Hudsonian curlew) Numenius phaeopus (265)
Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (258)
Woodcock, American Philohela minor (228)
Yellowlegs, Greater Totanus melanoleucus (254)
Lesser Totanus flavipes (255)

NONGAME BIRDS

Ani, Groove-billed Crotophaga sulcirostris (384)
Smooth-billed Crotophaga ani (383)
Auk, Razorbill Alca torda (32)
Auklet, Cassin’s Ptychoramphus aleutica (16)
Crested Aethia cristatella (18)
Least Aethia pusilla (20)
Parakeet Cyclorrhynchus psittacula (17)
Rhinoceros Cerorhinca monocerata (15)
Whiskered Aethia pygmaea (19)
Bittern, American Botaurus lentiginosus (190)
Least Izobrychus erilis (191)
Blackbird, Brewer’s Euphagus cyanocephalus (510)
Red-winged Agelaius phoeniceus (498)
Rusty Euphagus carolinus (509)
Tricolored Agelaius tricolor (500)
Yellow headed Xanthocephalus ranthocephalus (497)
Yellow-shouldered (Mariquita) Agelaius ranthomus
Bluebird, Eastern Sialia sialis (766)
Mountain Sialia currucoides (768)
Western Sialia mericana (767)
Bobolink Dolichonyz oryzivorus (494)
Booby, Blue-faced Sula dactylatra (114)
Brown Sula leucogaster (115)
Red-footed Sula sula (116)
Bullfinch, Puerto Rican (Come-Gandul) Lozigilla portoricensis
Bunting, Indigo Passerina cyanea (598)
Lark Calamospiza melanocorys (605)
Lazuli Passerina amoena (599)
McKay’s Plectrophenaz hyperboreus (535)
Painted Passerina ciris (601)
Snow Plectrophenar nivalis (534)
Varied Passerina versicolor (600)
Bushtit, Black-eared (Lloyd’s) Psaltriparus melanotis (745)
Common (Coast, California, and other subspecies) Psaltriparus
minimus (743)
Cardinal Richmondena cardinalis (593)
Carib, Green-throated (Zumbador de Pecho Azul) Sericotes holosericeus
Catbird Dumetella carolinensis (704)
Chat, Yellow-breasted Icteria virens (683)
Chickadee, Black-capped Parus atricapillus (735)
Boreal (Hudsonian) Parus hudsonicus (740)
Carolina Parus carolinensis (736)
Chestnut-backed Parus rufescens (741)
Gray-headed (Alaska) Parus cinctus (739)
Mexican Parus sclateri (737)
Mountain Parus gambeli (738)
Chuch-will’s-widow Caprimulgus carolinensis (416)
Cowbird, Bronzed (Red-eyed) Tangavius aeneus (496)
Brown-headed (Eastern, Nevada, California, and Dwarf) Molo-
thrus ater (495)
Glossy Molothrus bonariensis
Creeper, Brown Certhia familiaris (726)
Crossbill, Red (Bendire’s and other subspecies) Loria curvirostra (521)
White-winged Loria leucoptera (522)
Cuckoo, Black-billed Coccyzus erythropthalmus (388)
Mangrove (Maynard’s) Coccyzus minor (386a)
Puerto Rican lizard (Pajaro Bobo) Saurothera vetula
Yellow-billed Coccyzus americanus (387)
Dickcissel Spiza americana (604)
Dovekie Plautus alle (34)
Eagle, Bald Haliaeetus leucocephalus (352)
Golden Aquila chrysaetos (349)
Egret, Cattle Bubulcus ibis (200.1)
Common Casmerodius.albus (196)
Reddish Dichromanassa rufescens (198)
Snowy Leucophoyz thula (197)
Elaenia, Caribbean (Whistler) Elaenia martinica
Emerald, Puerto Rican (Zumbador) Chlorostilbon maugaeus
Euphonia, Puerto Rican (Blue-hooded, jilguero) Tanagra musica
Finch, Black rosy Leucosticte atrata (525)
Brown-capped rosy Leuwcosticte australis (526)
Cassin’s Carpodacus cassinii (518)
Gray-crowned rosy Leucosticte tephrocotis (524)
House Carpodacus mericanus (519)
Purple Carpodacus purpureus (517)
Flicker, Gilded Colaptes chrysoides (414)
Red-shafted Colaptes cafer (413)
Yellow-shafted (Northern and Southern) Colaptes auratus (412)
Flycatcher, Acadian Empidonar virescens (465)
Ash-throated Myiarchus cinerascens (454)
Beardless Camptostoma imberbe (472)
Buff-breasted Empidonar fulvifrons (470a)
Coues’ Contopus pertinar (460)
Dusky Empidonar oberholseri (469)
Fork-tailed Muscivora tyrannus (442)
Gray Empidonar wrightii (469.1)
Great Crested (Northern and Southern) Myiarchus crinitus (452)
Hammond’s Empidonar hammondii (468)
Kiskadee (Derby) Pitangus sulphuratus (449)
Least Empidonar minimus (467)
Olivaceous Myiarchus tuberculifer (455a)
Olive-sided Nuttallornis borealis (459)

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Scissor-tailed Muscivora forficata (443)
Stolid (Puerto Rican, Jui) Myiarchus siolidus
Sulphur-bellied Myiodynastes luteiventris (451)
Traill’s (Little and Alder) Empidonar traillii (466)
Vermilion Pyrocephalus rubinus (471)
Western Empidonaz difficilis (464)
Wied’s Crested Myiarchus tyrannulus (453)
Yellow-bellied Empidonar flaviventris (463)
Fulmar (Atlantic and Pacific) Fulmarus glacialis (86)
Gannet Morus bassanus (117)
Gnateatcher, Black-tailed (Plumbeous and other subspecies)
Polioptila melanura (752)
Blue-Gray Polioptila caerulea (751)
Goldfinch, American Spinus tristis (529)

Lawrence’s Spinus lawrencei (531)

Lesser (Arkansas) Spinus psaltria (530)
Grackle, Boat-tailed Cassidiz mericanus (513)

Common (Purple, Bronzed, and Florida) Quiscalus quiscula (511)
Puerto Rican (Mozambique, Chango) Quiscalus niger
Grassquit, Black-faced (Chamorro Bicolor) Tiaris bicolor
Yellow-faced (Chamorro Bello) Tiaris olivacea
Grebe, Eared Podiceps caspicus (4)
Horned Podiceps auritus (3)
Least (Tigua) Podiceps dominicus (5)
Pied-billed Podilymbus podiceps (6)
Red-necked (Holboell’s) Podiceps grisegena (2)
Western Aechmophorus occidentalis (1)
Grosbeak, Black-headed Pheucticus melanocephalus (596)

Blue Guiraca caerulea (597)

Evening Hesperiphona vespertina (514)

Pine Pinicola enucleator (515)

Rose-breasted Pheucticus ludovicianus (595)
Ground-chat Chamaethlypis poliocephala (682.1)
Guillemot, Black Cepphus grylle (27)

Pigeon Cepphus columba (29)

Gull, Bonaparte’s Larus philadelphia (60)
California Larus californicus (53)
Franklin’s Larus pipizcan (59)
Glaucous Larus hyperboreus (42)
Glaucous-winged Larus glaucescens (44)
Great Black-backed Larus marinus (47)
Heermann’s Larus heermanni (57)
Herring Larus argentatus (51a)
Iceland Larus glaucoides (43)
Ivory Pagophila eburnea (39)
Laughing Larus atricilla (58)
Mew Larus canus (55)
Ring-billed Larus delawarensis (54)
Ross’ Rhodostethia rosea (61)
Sabine’s Xema sabini (62)
Western Larus occidentalis (49)
Heron, Black-crowned Night Nycticorar nycticorar (202)
Great Blue Ardea herodias (194)
Great White Ardea occidentalis (192)
Green Butorides virescens (201)
Little Blue Florida caerulea (200)
Louisiana Hydranassa tricolor (199)
Yellow-crowned Night Nyctanassa violacea (203)
Hummingbird, Allen’s Selasphorus sasin (434)
Anna’s Calypie anna (431)
Antillian crested (Zumbardorcito) Orthorhynchus cristatus
Black-chinned Archilochus alezandri (429)
Blue-throated Lampornis clemenciae (427)
Broad-billed Cynanthus latirostris (441)
Broad-tailed Selasphorus platycercus (432)
Bufi-bellied Amazilia yucatanensis (439)
Calliope Stellula calliope (436)
Costa’s Calypte costae (430)
Heloise’s Atthis heloisa (435)
Lucifer Calothoraz lucifer (437)
Rivoli’s Eugenes fulgens (426)
Ruby-throated Archilochus colubris (428)
Rufous Selasphorus rufus (433)
White-eared Hylocharis leucotis (440.1)
Jaeger, Long-tailed Stercorarius longicaudus (38)
Parasitic Stercorarius parasiticus (37)
Pomarine Stercorarius pomarinus (36)
Junco, Gray-headed Junco caniceps (570b)
Mexican Junco phaeonotus (570)
Oregon (Shufeldt’s, Pink-sided, and other subspecies) Junco oreganus
(567a)
Slate-colored Junco hyemalis (567)
White-winged Junco aikeni (566)
Kingbird, Cassin’s Tyrannus vociferans (448)

Eastern Tyrannus tyrannus (444)

Gray Tyrannus dominicensis (445)

Puerto Rican (Petchary, Clerigo) Tyrannus caudifasciatus

Tropical (Couch’s) Tyrannus melancholicus (446)

Western (Arkansas) Tyrannus verticalis (447)

Kinglet, Golden-crowned Regulus satrapa (748)
Ruby-crowned Regulus calendula (749)
Kittiwake, Black-legged (Atlantic and Pacific) Rissa tridactyla (40)

Red-legged Rissa brevirostris (41)

Lark, Horned Eremophila alpestris (474)

Longspur, Chestnut-collared Calcarius ornatus (538)
Lapland Calcarius lapponicus (536)
McCown’s Rhynchophanes mccownii (539)
Smith’s Calcarius pictus (537)

Loon, Arctic (Pacific) Gavia arctica (10)

Common Gavia immer (7)
Red-throated Gavia stellata (11)
Yellow-billed Gavia adamsii (8)
Mango, Antillean (Zumbador Dorado) Anthracothoraz dominicus
Green (Zumbador Verde) Anthracothoraz viridis
Martin, Caribbean (Golondrina) Progne dominicensis
Gray-breasted Progne chalybea (611.2)
Purple Progne subis (611)
Meadowlark, Eastern (Southern and Rio Grande) Sturnella magna (501)
Western Sturnella neglecta (501.1)

Millerbird Acrocephalus familiaris

Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos (703)

Murre, Common (Atlantic and California) Uria aalge (30)

Thick-billed (Brunnich’s) Uria lomvia (31)

Murrelet, Ancient Synthliboramphus antiquum (21)

Craveri’s Endomychura craveri (26)

Kittlitz’s Brachyramphus brevirostre (24)

Marbled Brachyramphus marmoratum (23)

Xantus’ Endomychura hypoleuca (25)
Nighthawk, Common (Eastern) Chordeiles minor (420)

Lesser (Texas) Chordeiles acutipennis (421)

Nuthatch, Brown-headed Sitta pusilla (729)

Pigmy Sitta pygmaea (730)

Red-breasted Sitta canadensis (728)

White-breasted Sitta carolinensis (727)

Oriole, Baltimore, Icterus galbula (507)

Black-cowled (Calandra) Icterus dominicensis
Black-headed (Audubon’s) Icterus graduacauda (503)
Bullock’s Icterws bullockii (508)

Hooded (Sennett’s) Icterus cucullatus (505)
Lichtenstein’s (Altamira) Icterws gularis (503.1)
Orchard Icterus spurius (506)

Scott’s Icterus parisorum (504)

Spotted-breasted Icterws pectoralis (502.2)

Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus (674)

Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis (419)

Petrel, Ashy Oceanodroma homochroa (108)

Black Loomelania melania (107)

Black-capped (Diablotin) Pterodroma hasitata (98)
Bonin Pterodroma hypoleuca

Bulwer’s Bulweria bulwerii (101)

Dark-rumped (Uau) Pterodroma phaeopygia
Fork-tailed Oceanodroma furcata (105)

Harcourt’s (Hawaiian) Oceanodroma castro (106.2)
Leach’s Oceanodroma leucorhoa (106)

Least Halocyptena microsoma (103)

Scaled Pterodroma inerpectata (99)

Sooty storm Oceanodroma markhami

Wilson’s Oceanites oceanicus (109)

Pewee, Eastern Wood Contopus virens (461)

Puerto Rican (Jui Pequeno) Contopus latirostris
Western Wood Contopus sordidulus (462)
Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens (620)
Phoebe, Black Sayornis nigricans (458)
Eastern Sayornis phoebe (456)
Say’s Sayornis saya (457)

Pipit, Sprague’s Anthus spragueii (700)

Water (American) Anthus spinoletta (697)

Poor-will Phalaenoptilus nuttallii (418)

Puffin, Common Fratercula arctica (13)

Ilorned Fratercula corniculata (14)
Tufted Lunda cirrhata (12)
Pyrrhuloxia Pyrrhuloria sinwata (594)
Redpoll, Common Acanthis flammea (528)
Hoary Acanthis hornemanni (527)

Redstart, American Setophaga ruticilla (687)
Painted Setophaga picta (688)

Roadrunner, Geococcyz californianus (385)

Robin Turdus migratorius (761)

Sapsucker, Williamson’s Sphyrapicus thyroideus (404)
Yellow-bellied (Red-naped and Red-breasted) Sphyrapicus varius

(402)
Seedeater, White-collared Sporophila torqueola (602)
Shearwater, Audubon’s Puffinus lherminieri (92)
Christmas Island Pu/ffinus nativitatus
Cory’s Puffinus diomedea (88)
Greater Puffinus gravis (89)
Manx Pu/ffinus puffinus (90)
New Zealand Pu/ffinus bulleri (96.2)
Pale-footed Puffinus carneipes (95.1)
Pink-footed Puffinus creatopus (91)
Slender-billed Pu/ffinus tenuirostris (96)
Sooty Puffinus griseus (95)
Wedge-tailed Puffinus pacificus (96.1)
Shrike, Loggerhead Lanius ludovicianus (622)
Northern Lanius ercubitor (621)

Siskin, Pine Spinus pinus (533)

Skua Catharacta skua (35)

Solitaire, Townsend’s Myadestes townsendi (754)

Sparrow, Bachman’s Aimophila aestivalis (575)
Baird’s Ammodramus bairdii (545)
Black-chinned Spizella atrogularis (565)
Black-throated Amphispiza bilineata (573)
Botteri’s Aimophila botterii (576)
Brewer’s Spizella breweri (562)
Cape Sable Ammospiza mirabilis (551.1)
Cassin’s Aimophila cassinii (578)
Chipping Spizella passerina (560)
Clay-colored Spizella pallida (561)
Dusky seaside Ammospiza nigrescens (551)
Field Spizella pusilla (563)
Fox Passerella iliaca (585)
Golden-crowned Zonotrichia atricapilla (557)
Grasshopper Ammodramus savannarum (546)
[larris’ Zonotrichia querula (553)
Ifenslow’s Passerherbulus henslowii (547)
Ipswich Passerculus princeps (541)
Lark Chondestes grammacus (552)
Le Conte’s Passerherbulus caudacutus (548)
Lincoln’s Melospiza lincolnii (583)
Olive (Texas) Arremonops rufivirgata (586)
Rufous-crowned Aimophila ruficeps (580)
Rufous-winged Aimophila carpalis (579)
Sage (Bell’s) Amphispiza belli (574)
Savannah (Belding’s and Large-billed) Passerculus sandwichensis
(542)

Seaside Ammospiza maritima (550)
Sharp-tailed Ammospiza caudacuta (549)
Song Melospiza melodia (581)
Swamp Melospiza georgiana (584)
Tree Spizella arborea (559)
Vesper Pooecetes gramineus (540)
White-crowned Zonotrichia leucophrys (554)
White-throated Zonotrichia albicollis (558)
Worthen’s Spizella wortheni (564)

Swallow, Bank Riparia riparia (616)
Barn Hirundo rustica (613)
Cave (Cuban and Coahuila Cliff) Petrochelidon fulva (612.1)
Cliff Petrochelidon pyrrhonota (612)
Rough-winged Stelgidopteryz ruficollis (617)
Tree Iridoprocne bicolor (614)
Violet-green Tachycineta thalassina (615)

Swift, Black Cypseloides niger (422)

Chimney Chaetura pelagica (423)
Vaux’s Chaetura vauri (424)
White-throated Aeronautes saratalis (425)
Tanager, Hepatic Piranga flava (609)
Puerto Rican (Lloron, Verdoso) Nesospingus speculiferus
Scarlet Piranga olivacea (608)
Stripe-headed (Reina Mora) Spindalis zena
Summer Piranga rubra (610)
Western Piranga ludoviciana (607)
Tern, Aleutian Sterna aleutica (73)
Arctie Sterna paradisaea (71)
Black Chlidonias niger (77)
Blue-gray noddy Procelsterna cerulea
Bridled (Gaviota Oscura) Sterna anaethetus (76)
Caspian Hydroprogne caspia (64)
Common Sterna hirundo (70)
Elegant Thalasseus elenans (66)
Fairy (White) Gygis alba
Forster’s Sterna forsteri (69)
Gray-backed Sterna lunata
Gull-billed Gelochelidon nilotica (63)
Least Sterna albifrons (74)
Noddy (Noio Koha) Anous stolidus (79)
Roseate Sterna dougallii (72)
Royal Thalasseus marimus (65)
Sandwich (Cabot’s) Thalasseus sandvicensis (67)
Sooty Sterna fuscata (75)
White-capped noddy (Iawaiian tern Noio) Anous minutu

Thrasher, Bendire’s Toxostoma bendiret (708) :

Brown Tozostoma rufum (705)

California Torostoma redivioum (710)

Crissal Tozrostoma dorsale (712)

Curve-billed Torostoma curvirostre (707)

Le Conte’s Torostoma lecontei (711)

Long-billed (Sennett’s) Torostoma longirostre (706)
Pearly-eyed (Zorzal) Margarops fuscatus

Sage Oreoscoptes montanus (702)

Thrush, Gray-cheeked Hylocichla minima (757)
Hawaiian (Omao) Phaeornis obscurus
Hermit Hylocichla guttota (759)

Puerto Rican (Red-legged, Zorzal Azul) Mimocichla plumbea

Small Hawaiian (Puaiohi) Phaeornis palmeri

Swainson’s (Russet-backed and Olive-backed) Hylocichla ustulata
(758)

Varied Jroreus naevius (763)

Wood Hylocichla mustelina (755)

Titmouse, Black-crested Parus atricristatus (732)
Bridled Parws wollweberi (734)
Plain Parus inornatus (733)
Tufted Parus bicolor (731)
Towhee, Abert’s Pipilo aberti (592)
Brown Pipilo fuscus (591)
Green-tailed Chlorura chlorura (592.1)
Rufous-sided Pipilo erythrophthalmus (587)
Veery Hylocichla fuscescens (756)
Verdin Auriparus flaviceps (746)
Vireo, Bell’s Vireo bellii (633)
Black-whiskered Vireo altiloguus (623)
Black-capped Vireo atricapilla (630)
Gray Vireo vicinior (634)
Hutton’s Vireo huttoni (632)
Philadelphia Vireo philadelphicus (626)
Puerto Rican (Julian Chivi) Vireo latimeri
Red-eyed Vireo olivaceus (624)
Solitary (Blue-headed and other subspecies) Vireo solitarius (629)
Warbling Vireo gilvus (627)

Olive Peucedramus taeniatus (651)
Olive-backed (Sennett’s) Parula pitiayumi (649)
Orange-crowned Vermivora celata (646)
Palm Dendroica palmarum (672)

Parula Parula americana (648)

Pine Dendroica pinus (671)

Prairie Dendroica discolor (673)
Prothonotary Protonotaria citrea (637)
Red-faced Cardellina rubrifrons (690)
Swainson’s Limnothlypis swainsonii (638)
Tennessee Vermivora peregrina (647)
Townsend’s Dendroica townsendi (668)
Virginia’s Vermivora virginiae (644)
Wilson’s Wilsonia pusilla (685)
Worm-eating Helmitheros vermivorus (639)
Yellow Dendroica petechia (652)
Yellow-throated Dendroica dominica (663)

Waterthrush, Louisiana Seiurus motacilla (676)

Northern (Grinnell’s) Seiwrus noveboracensis (675)

Waxwing, Bohemian Bombycilla garrula (618)
Cedar Bombycilla cedrorum (619)
Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe (765)
Whip-poor-will Caprimulgus vociferus (417)
Woodpecker, Acorn (California and other subspecies) Melanerpes formi-

White-eyed Vireo griseus (631)
Yellow-throated Vireo flavifrons (628)
Wagtail, Yellow Motacilla flava (696)
Warbler, Adelaide’s (Reinita Mariposera) Dendroica adelaidae
Arctic Phyllascopus borealis (747)

Audubon’s Dendroica acuduboni (656)
Bachman’s Vermivora bachmanii (640)
Bay-breasted Dendroica castanea (660)
Black-and-White Mniotilta varia (636)
Blackburnian Dendroica fusca (662)
Blackpoll Dendroica striata (661)
Black-throated Blue Dendroica caerulescens (654)
Black-throated Gray Dendroica nigrescens (665)
Black-throated Green Dendroica virens (667)
Blue-winged Vermivora pinus (641)

Canada Wilsonia canadensis (686)

Cape May Dendroica tigrina (650)

Cerulean Dendroica cerulea (658)
Chestnut-sided Dendroica pensylvanica (659)
Colima Vermivora crissalis (647.1)
Connecticut Oporornis agilis (678)
Golden-cheeked Dendroica chrysoparia (666)
Golden-winged Vermivora chrysoptera (642)
Grace’s Dendroica graciae (664)

Hermit Dendroica occidentalis (669)

Hooded Wilsonia citrina (684)

Kentucky Oporornis formosus (677)
Kirtland’s Dendroica kirtlandii (670)

Lucy’s Vermivora luciae (643)
MacGillivray’s Oporornis tolmiei (680)
Magnolia Dendroica magnolia (657)
Mourning Oporornis philadelphia (679)
Myrtle Dendroica coronata (655)

civorus (407) ;
Arizona Dendrocopos arizonae (398)
Black-backed Three-toed Picoides arcticus (400)
Downy Dendrocopos pubescens (394)
Gila Centurus uropygialis (411)
Golden-fronted Centurus aurifrons (410)
Hairy Dendrocopos villosus (393)
Ivory-billed Campephilus principalis (392)
Ladder-backed (Texas, Cactus, and other subspecies) Dendro-
copos scalaris (396)
Lewis’ Asyndesmus lewis (408)
Northern Three-toed Picoides tridactylus (401)
Nuttall’s Dendrocopos nuttallii (397)
Pileated Dryocopus pileatus (405)
Puerto Rican (Carpintero) Melanerpes portoricensis
Red-bellied Centurus carolinus (409)
Red-cockaded Dendrocopos borealis (395)
Red-headed Melanerpes erythrocephalus (406)
White-headed Dendrocopos albolarvatus (399)

Wren, Bewick’s Thryomanes bewickii (719)

Brown-throated Troglodytes brunneicollis (721.1)
Cactus Campylorhynchus brunneicapillum (713)
Canon Catherpes mericanus (717)

Carolina Thryothorus ludovicianus (718)

House Troglodytes aedon (721)

Long-billed Marsh Telmatodytes palustris (725)
Rock Salpinctes obsoletus (715)

Short-billed Marsh Cistothorus platensis (724)
Winter Troglodytes troglodytes (722)

Nashville Vermivora ruficapilla (645) Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas (681)

GENERAL INFORMATION

The following information is of a general nature only. Specific information on Federal laws and regulations can be
obtained from the Director, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,
20240, or the nearest regional office of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife as follows: Region 1 (Northwest) ,
Post Office Box 3737, Portland, Oreg., 97208; Region 2 (Southwest), Post Office Box 1306, Albuquerque, N. Mex., 87103;
Region 3 (Midwest), 1006 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minn., 55408; Region 4 (Southeast), Peachtree-Seventh
Building, Atlanta, Ga., 30323; and Region 5 (Northeast), U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston, Mass., 02109.

Possession of protected birds.—No person may take from the wild, otherwise acquire, possess, sell, purchase, trans-
port, import, export, or dispose of any protected birds, alive or dead, or their parts, nests or eggs, except in accordance
with the Federal regulations under Parts 10, 11, and 16 of Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations. Under these regu-
lations, Federal permits may be issued to qualified persons, authorizing the acquisition, possession, and transportation
of protected birds for justified propagating, scientific, educational, taxidermy, and other special purposes under certain
conditions.

Control of depredating birds.— Under Parts 11 and 16 of Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, permits may be issued
authorizing the killing of protected birds that are committing serious depredations on crops, property, or other interests
when the injury is substantial and can be avated only by killing some or all of the offending birds. In addition, all species
of blackbirds, cowbirds, and grackles may be killed without a permit when such birds are committing or about to commit
depredations on shade or ornamental trees or agricultural crops.

Birds not afforded Federal protection.—The following are some common birds which are not afforded Federal pro-
tection, but which may be protected by State laws administered by the respective State conservation departments:

Anhingas Jays Pelicans

Cormorants Kingfishers Ravens

Crows Magpies Sparrow—English or House only
Hawks Ospreys (Passer domesticus)

Ibises Owls Starlings

Also, established introduced foreign (exotic) species.

Wildlife Leaflet 472, May 1966. (Supersedes WL 469, July 1965.)

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