Literature Citations for the Creation of the WatchList of Birds of Conservation Concern

Beissinger, S. R., J. M. Reed, J. M. Wunderle, Jr., S. K. Robinson, and D. M Finch. 2000. Report of the AOU conservation committee on the Partners in Flight species prioritization plan. Auk 117:549-561.

Brown, S., C. Hickey, B. Harrington, and R. Gill, eds. 2001. The U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, Second Edition. Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Manomet MA.

Butcher, G.S. 2007. Common birds in decline, a state of the birds report. Audubon 109(4):58-62.

Butcher, G.S., and D.K. Niven. 2007. Combining data from the Christmas Bird Count and the Breeding Bird Survey to determine the continental status and trends of North America birds. National Audubon Society, New York NY . http://www.audubon.org/bird/stateofthebirds/CBID/report.php .

Carter, M. F., W. C. Hunter, D. N. Pashley , and K. V. Rosenberg. 2000. Setting conservation priorities for landbirds in the United States : the Partners in Flight approach. Auk 117:541-548.

Delany, S., and D. Scott, eds. 2006. Waterbird Population Estimates - Fourth Edition. Wetlands International, Wagingen, The Netherlands .

Dunn, E. H., B. L. Altman, J. Bart, C. J. Beardmore, H. Berlanga, P. J. Blancher, G. S. Butcher, D. W. Demarest, R. Dettmers, W. C. Hunter, E. E. Iñigo-Elias, A. O. Panjabi, D. N. Pashley, C. J. Ralph, T. D. Rich, K. V. Rosenberg, C. M. Rustay, J. M. Ruth, and T. C. Will. 2005. High priority needs for range-wide monitoring of North American landbirds. Partners in Flight Technical Series No. 2. Partners in Flight website: http://www.partnersinflight.org/pubs/ts/02-MonitoringNeeds.pdf.

Hunter, W. C., M. F. Carter, D. N. Pashley, and K. Barker. 1993. The Partners in Flight prioritization scheme. Pp. 109-119 in Status and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds, D. Finch and P. Stangel, eds. USDA For. Ser. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-229. Fort Collins , Colorado .

Kushlan, J.A., M.J. Steinkamp, K.C. Parsons, J. Capp, M. Acosta Cruz, M. Coulter, I. Davidson, L. Dickson, N. Edelson, R. Elliot, R.M. Erwin, S. Hatch, S. Kress, R. Milko, S. Miller, K. Mills, R. Paul, R. Phillips, J.E. Saliva, B. Sydeman, J. Trapp, J. Wheeler, and K. Wohl. 2002. Waterbird Conservation for the Americas : The North American Waterbird Conservation Plan, Version 1. Waterbird Conservation for the Americas , Washington , DC , U.S.A. 78pp. http://www.nacwcp.org/pubs/ContinentalPlan.cfm . Morrison, R.I.G., B.J. McCaffery, R.E. Gill, S.K. Skagen, S.L. Jones, G.W. Page, C.L. Gratto-Trevor, and B.A. Andres. 2006. Population estimates of North American shorebirds. Wader Study Group Bulletin 111:67-85. North American Waterfowl Management Plan Committee. 2004. Strategic Guidance: Strengthening the Biological Foundation. Canadian Wildlife Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, 22 pp.

Panjabi, A. O., E. H. Dunn, P. J. Blancher, W. C. Hunter, B. Altman, J. Bart, C. J. Beardmore, H. Berlanga, G. S. Butcher, S. K. Davis, D. W. Demarest, R. Dettmers, W. Easton, H. Gomez de Silva Garza, E. E. Iñigo-Elias, D. N. Pashley, C. J. Ralph, T. D. Rich, K. V. Rosenberg, C. M. Rustay, J. M. Ruth, J. S. Wendt, and T. C. Will. 2005. The Partners in Flight handbook on species assessment. Version 2005. Partners in Flight Technical Series No. 3. Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory website: http://www.rmbo.org/pubs/downloads/Handbook2005.pdf .

Rich, T. D., C. J. Beardmore, H. Berlanga, P. J. Blancher, M. S. W. Bradstreet, G. S. Butcher, D. W. Demarest, E. H. Dunn, W. C. Hunter, E. E. Iñigo-Elias, J. A. Kennedy, A. M. Martell, A. O. Panjabi, D. N. Pashley, K. V. Rosenberg, C. M. Rustay, J. S. Wendt, and T. C. Will. 2004. Partners in Flight North American Landbird Conservation Plan. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Ithaca , New York .

Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Allnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere , version 2.1. NatureServe, Arlington , Virginia , USA . http://www.natureserve.org/getData/birdMaps.jsp .

Rosenberg, K. V. and P. J. Blancher. 2005. Setting numerical population objectives for priority landbird species. Pp. 57-67 in Bird Conservation and Implementation in the Americas : Proceedings of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference, Vol. 1. C. J. Ralph and T. D. Rich, eds. USDA For. Ser. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191. Pacific Southwest Research Station. Albany , California . 651 pp.

Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2005. Version 6.2.2006. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center , Laurel, MD. http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/ .