New Focal Species Pages Launched

Web pages for the following focal bird species are now available online via the NBII Bird Conservation Node and Focal Species Web site: American Black Duck, Bicknell’s Thrush, Dunlin (arcticola ssp.), Greater Scaup, Hudsonian Godwit, Iiwi, Lesser Scaup, Mottled Duck, Sprague’s Pipit, and Upland Sandpiper. Content development for these new species homepages was a collaborative effort bringing together input from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists and other federal and state agency personnel with expertise on these species. Additional information resources of relevance to each species will be incorporated into these focal species Web pages in the coming months. The Focal Species Strategy is an activity of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Migratory Bird Program aimed at returning these species populations to healthy and sustainable levels. If you know of quality online information resources for these species that should be listed in the new focal species pages, please contact the Bird Conservation Node.


(Photo: Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)- Photo by Tim Bowman, FWS Digital Media Library)