DWG. BY WALTER DAWN 



BACHMAN'S WARBLER 



Vermivora bachmanii Audubon 



KINGDOM Animalia 



CLASS Aves 



ORDER Passeriformes 



FAMILY Parulidae 



OTHER COMMON NAMES None 



DATE 



Entered into SWIS To be determined. 



Updates 5 April 1978; 10 October 1978. 



LEGAL STATUS 



Federal: Endangered: 32 FR 4001; 11 March 

 1967. 



States: Endangered: Florida, Georgia, Missis- 



sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Texas. 



REASONS FOR CURRENT STATUS 



Stevenson (1938), USDI (1973), Shuler 

 (1977b, 1977c, personal communication) and 

 Arthur Wayne's (approximately 1910) unpublish- 

 ed statement, "I never expect to see another spec- 

 imen as the great swamp in which I found it 

 breeding has been deforested by a lumbering 

 company," all suggest that the clearing of the 

 southern swamp forests contributed to the de- 

 cline of the Bachman's warbler. On the other 

 hand, Stevenson (1972) and personal communica- 

 tions from P. Hamel, R. Hooper, and D. Urbston 

 insist that the reasons for the current status of 

 this species are unknown. 



Other suggestions for the species' current 

 status have included: (1) competition with other 

 species on the breeding grounds (Hamel 1977a); 

 (2) excessive collecting along migration route in 

 Florida (USDI 1973); (3) climatic catastrophe 

 such as storms (R. Hooper personal communica- 



