UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WL 469 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 



BUREAU OF SPORT FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE 



WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240 



BIRDS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW 



Compiled July 1965 

 Division of Management and Enforcement 



Birds that move across State and National borders are recognized as national resources and are afforded Federal 

 protection in all areas subject to U.S. jurisdiction, pursuant to the provisions of Federal laws and treaties with Great 

 Britain (for Canada) and Mexico. The species of birds protected are listed here by the most widely used common name 

 or names followed by the scientific name in italics and, when applicable, the A.O.U. number as designated in the fifth 

 edition of the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds. The birds are listed alphabetically 

 by common name in two categories, "Game Birds" and "Nongame Birds," except that all ducks are grouped under the 

 heading "Ducks" in "Game Birds" and are alphabetical within that group. 



Authority 



hority: Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755; 16 U.S.C. 703- 

 of June 8, 1940 (54 Stat. 250; 16 U.S.C. 668), as amended. 



711), as amended, and the Eagle Act 



GAME BIRDS 



Avocet, American Recurvirostra americann (225) 

 Brant, Branta bernkla (173) 



Black Branta nigricans (174) 

 Coot, American Fulica americana (221) 



Caribbean (Gallinazo, Gallareta) Fulica caribaea 

 Crane, Sandhill (Greater, Lesser or Little Brown, and Florida) Grus cana- 

 densis (205) 

 Whooping Grus americana (204) 

 Curlew, Bristle-thighed Numenius tahitiensis (268) 

 Eskimo Numenius borealis (266) 

 Long-billed Numenius americanus (264) 

 Dove, Bridled Quail Geotryqon myslacea 



Ground Columbigallina passerina (320) 

 Inca Scardafella inca (321) 

 Mourning Zenaidura macroura (316) 

 Ruddy Quail Geotryqon montana (322.1) 

 White-fronted Leptotila verreauii (318) 

 White-winged Zenaida asiatica (319) 

 Zenaida Zenaida aurita (317) 

 Dowitcher, Long-billed Limnodromus scolopaceus (232) 

 Short-billed Limnodromus griseus (231) 



Ducks: 



Bahama Duck Anas bahamensis (143.1) 

 Black Duck Anas rubripes (133a) 

 Bufflehead Bucephala albeola (153) 

 Canvasback Aythya mlisineria (147) 



Eider, Common (Northern, American, and Pacific) Somateria mollissima 

 (159) 

 King Somateria spectabilis (162) 

 Spectacled Lampronetta fischeri (158) 

 Steller's Polysticta stelleri (157) 

 Gadwall Anas strepera (135) 

 Goldeneye, Barrow's Bucephala islandka (152 

 Common Bucephala clangula (151) 

 Harlequin Duck Hislorionicus histrionicus (155) 

 Hawaiian Duck (Koloa) Anas loyvilliana 

 Laysan Duck (Laysan teal) Anas laysanensis 

 Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (132) 

 Masked Duck Ozyura dominica (168) 

 Merganser, Common (American) Mergus merganser (129) 

 Hooded Lophodytes cucullatus (131) 

 Red-breasted Mergus serrator (130) 

 Mexican Duck (New Mexican) Anas diazi (133.1) 

 Mottled Duck (Florida and Louisiana) Anas fulvigula (134) 

 Oldsquaw Clangala hyemalis (154) 

 Pintail Anas acuta (143) 

 Redhead Aythya americana (146) 

 Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris (150) 

 Ruddy Duck Oiyura jamakensis (167) 

 Scaup, Greater Aythya marila (148) 



Lesser Aythya affinis (149) 

 Scoter, Common Oidemia nigra (163) 



Surf Melanitta perspicillata (166) 

 White-winged Melanitta deglandi (165) 

 Shoveler Spatula clypeata (142) 

 Teal, Blue-winged Anas discors (140) 

 Cinnamon Anas cyanoptera (141) 

 Common (European) Anas crecca (138) 

 Green-winged Anas carolinensis (139) 

 Tree Duck, Black-bellied Dendrocygna autumnalis (177) 

 Fulvous Dendrocygna bkolor (178) 

 West Indian (Yaguaza) Dendrocygna arborea 

 Widgeon, American Mareca americana (137) 



European Mareca penelope (136) 

 Wood Duck Aii sponsa (144) 



Dunlin (Red-backed Sandpiper) Erolia alpina (243) 



Gallinule, Common Gallinula chloropus (219) 

 Purple Porphyrula martinka (218) 

 Godwit, Bar-tailed Limosa lapponica (250) 

 Hudsonian Limosa haemastica (251) 

 Marbled Limosa fedoa (249) 

 Goose. Barnacle Branta leucopsis (175) 

 Blue Chen caerulescens (169.1) 



Canada (Lesser and Cackling) Branta canadensis (172) 

 Emperor Philacte canagica (176) 

 Hawaiian (Nene) Branta sandvicensis 

 Ross' Chen rossii (170) 

 Snow Chen hyperborea (169) 

 White-fronted (Tule) Anser albifrons (171) 

 Killdeer Charadrius vociferus (273) 

 Knot Calidris canutus (234) 

 Oystercatcher, American Haematopus palliatus (286) 



Black Haematopus bachmani (287) 

 Phalarope, Northern Lobipes lobatus (223) 

 Red Phalaropus fulicarius (222) 

 Wilson's Steganopus tricolor (224) 

 Pigeon, Band-tailed Coiumba fasciala (312) 



Puerto Rican (Paloma Sabanera, Blue Pigeon) Coiumba inornata 

 Red-billed Coiumba flavirostris (313) 

 Scaly-naped (Paloma Turca) Coiumba squamosa (314.1) 

 White-crowned Coiumba leucocephala (314) 

 Plover, American Golden (Atlantic and Pacific) Pluvialis dominica (272) 

 Black-bellied Squatarola squatarola (270) 

 Mongolian Charadrius mongolus (279) 

 Mountain Eupoda montana (281) 

 Piping Charadrius melodus (277) 

 Semipalmated Charadrius semipalmatus (274) 

 Snowy Charadrius aleiandrinus (278) 

 Upland Bartramia longkauda (261) 

 Wilson's Charadrius wilsonia (280) 

 Rail, Black Laterallus jamakensis (216) 

 Clapper Rallus longirostris (210) 

 King Rallus elegans (208) 

 Sora Porzana Carolina (214) 

 Virginia Rallus limkola (212) 

 Yellow Coturnicops noveboracensis (215) 

 Yellow-bellied (Gallareta Chiquita) Porzana flaviventer 

 Sanderling Crocethia alba (248) 

 Sandpiper, Baird's Erolia bairdii (241) 



Buff-breasted Tryngites subruficollis (262) 

 Curlew Erolia ferruginea (244) 

 Least Erolia minutilla (242) 

 Pectoral Erolia melanotos (239) 

 Purple Erolia maritima (235) 



Rock (Aleutian) Erolia ptilocnemis (235a-d) c3 



Semipalmated Ereunetes pusillus (246) =| 



Sharp-tailed Erolia acuminata (238) sn 



Solitary Tringa solitaria (256) £ 



Spotted Actilis macularia (263) 



Stilt Micropalama himantopus (233) *g 



Western Ereunetes mauri (247) 3» 



White-rumped Erolia fuscicollis (240) ^ 



Snipe, Common (Wilson's) Capella gallinago (230) 33 



Stilt, Black-necked Himantopus mezicanus (226) pn 



Surfbird Aphriza virgata (282) 

 Swan, Trumpeter Olor buccinator (181) 



Whistling Olor columbianus (180) «« 



Tattler, Wandering Heteroscelus incanum (259) 

 Turnstone, Black Arenaria melanocephala (284) 

 Turnstone, Ruddy Arenaria interpres (283) 

 Whimbrel (Hudsonian curlew) Numenius phaeopus (265) 

 Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (258) 

 Woodcock, American Philohela minor (228) 

 Yellowlegs, Greater Totanus melanoleucus (254) 

 Lesser Totanus tlavipes (255) 



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