Species Conservation Plans

Map of All Species Plans' Important Sites (July 27, 2012 .kmz)

Each WHSRN Species Conservation Plan, below, lists known sites important to the survival of the species. For most, these are sites that support at least 1% of its biogeographic population - the standard also used by BirdLife International for identifying Important Bird Areas. For species that tend not to aggregate, a more appropriate but comparable percentage was applied.

The "Map of All Species Plans' Important Sites" brings these sites into a GoogleEarth format. Each species is denoted with a unique placemark that can be selected from the Google Earth menu. Pop-up windows associated with each site convey information by species, imported from the conservation plans: site name and species, counts, season, date, and primary source information when available (availability varies widely from species plan to species plan). Updates to the Map will be announced on this webpage.

The Plans

All plans are in PDF format

American Golden-Plover Plan (3 MB) Pluvialis dominica Spanish Executive Summary (131 KB)	Marbled Godwit Plan (5.1 MB) Limosa fedoa Action Plan Summary (655 KB) Spanish Executive Summary (66 KB)
Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus In progress...	Red Knot Plan (7.3 MB) Calidris canutus Action Plan Summary (1.2 MB) Spanish Executive Summary (120 KB) 2008 Report on the Status of the Species (79 KB), Niles, et al. 2011 Report on the Status of the Species (183 KB), Dey, et al.
Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia In progress...	Sanderling Plan (853 KB) Calidris alba Spanish Executive Summary (291 KB)
Mountain Plover Plan (415 KB) Charadrius montanus Spanish Executive Summary (108 KB)	Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla In progress...
American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus Regional Plan: U.S. Atlantic & Gulf Coasts (728 KB) Action Plan Summary (179 KB) Spanish Executive Summary (93 KB) Hemispheric Plan: Western Hemisphere (921 KB) Spanish Executive Summary (341 KB)	Western Sandpiper Plan (937 KB) Calidris mauri Action Plan Summary (1.8 MB) Spanish Executive Summary (99 KB)
Black Oystercatcher Plan (811 KB) Haematopus bachmani Action Plan Summary (690 KB) Spanish Executive Summary (153 KB)	Dunlin Plan (2.8 MB) Calidris alpina Spanish Executive Summary (1.2 MB)
Lesser Yellowlegs Plan (1.9 MB) Tringa flavipes Spanish Executive Summary (124 KB)	Buff-breasted Sandpiper Plan (5.1 MB) Tryngites subruficollis Spanish Executive Summary (527 KB)
Upland Sandpiper Plan (1.7 MB) Bartramia longicauda Action Plan Summary (560 KB) Spanish Executive Summary (277 KB)	American Woodcock Plan Scolopax minor Published by the Wildlife Management Institute
Whimbrel Plan (3.2 MB) Numenius phaeopus Spanish Executive Summary (270 KB)	Wilson's Phalarope Plan (1.7 MB) Phalaropus tricolor Spanish Executive Summary (175 KB)
Long-billed Curlew Plan (3 MB) Numenius americanus Published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Learn More: Visit the USFWS for more info and to download chapters Spanish Executive Summary (137 KB)	Red-necked Phalarope Plan (408 KB) Phalaropus lobatus Plan range: Northeast U.S. and Canada Spanish Executive Summary (144 KB)
Hudsonian Godwit Plan (1.6 MB) Limosa haemastica Action Plan Summary (380 KB) Spanish Executive Summary (300 KB)

Thanks to Noemi Moreno Salazar, in Colombia, for translating the Executive Summaries to Spanish

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