This revision to the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan includes the evaluation of new information, since the initial shorebird conservation assessment was completed in March 2000, and the correction of categorization errors made in the 2001 U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan. In this review, shorebird biologists evaluated the differences in conservation status among the 74 shorebird populations previously identified and, where appropriate, combined ...
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This revision to the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan includes the evaluation of new information, since the initial shorebird conservation assessment was completed in March 2000, and the correction of categorization errors made in the 2001 U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan. In this review, shorebird biologists evaluated the differences in conservation status among the 74 shorebird populations previously identified and, where appropriate, combined taxa within a species that shared the same conservation status ─ the purpose being to create the most parsimonious list of distinct shorebird conservation units. Population designations are provided in the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan and the Plan’s Conservation Assessment report (available at http://shorebirdplan.fws.gov/USShorebird/PlanDocuments.htm). In general, only a few, minor adjustments to the original assessment were made.
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