

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 



BUREAU OF SPORT FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE 



WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240 



BIRDS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW 



WL472 



Compiled May 1966 

 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: Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755; 

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



16 U.S.C. 703-711), as amended, and the Eagle Act 



GAME BIRDS 



Avocet, American Recurvirostra americann (225) 

 Brant, Branta bernicla (173) 



Black Branta nigricans (174) 

 Coot, American Fulica amerieana (221) 



Caribbean (Gallinazo, Gallareta) Fulica caribaea 

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

 densis (205) 

 Whooping Grus amerieana (204) 

 Curlew, Bristle-thighed Numenius tahitiensis (268) 

 Eskimo Numenius borealis (266) 

 Long-billed Numenius americanus (264) 

 Dove, Bridled Quail Geotrygon mystacea 



Ground Columbigallina passerina (320) 

 Inca Scardafella inca (321) 

 Mourning Zenaidura macroura (316) 

 Ruddy Quail Geotrygon montana (322.1) 

 White-fronted Leptoiila verreauii (318) 

 White-winged Zenaida asiatica (319) 

 Zenaida Zenaida aurita (317) 

 Dowitcher, Long-biUed Limnodromus scolopaceus (232) 

 Short-billed Limnodromus griseus (231) 



Ducks: 



Bahama Duck Anas bahamensis (143.1) 

 Black Duck Anas ruhripes {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 slelleri (157) 

 Gadwall Anas strepera (135) 

 Goldeneye, Barrow's Bucephala islandica (152 

 Common Bucephala clangula (151) 

 Harlequin Duck Histrionicus hiatrionicus (155) 

 Hawaiian Duck (Koloa) Anas wyvilliana 

 Laysan Duck (Laysan teal) Anas laysanensis 

 Mallard Arms platyrhynchos (132) 

 Masked Duck Oiyura 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 Clangula hyemalis (154) 

 Pintail Anas acuta (143) 

 Redhead Aythya amerieana (146) 

 Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris (150) 

 Ruddy Duck Oiyura jamaicensis (167) 

 Scaup, Greater Aythya marila (148) 



Lesser Aythya aljinis (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 ^i39) 

 Tree Duck, Black-bellied Dendrocygna autumnalis (177) 

 Fulvous Dendrocygna bicolor (178) 

 West Indian (Yaguaza) Dendrocygna arborea 

 Widgeon, American Mareca amerieana (137) 



European Mareca penelope (136) 

 Wood Duck Ail sponsa (144) 



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



Gallinule, Common Gallinula chloropus (219) 

 Purple Porphyrula martinica (218) 

 Godwit, Bar-tailed Limosa lapponica (250) 

 Iludsonian 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 Haematopua palliatus (286) 



Black Haematopus bachmani (287) 

 Phalarope, Northern Lobipes lobatus (223) 

 Red Phalaropus fulicarius (222) 

 Wilson's Steganopus tricolor (224) 

 Pigeon, Band-tailed Columba fasciata (312) 



Puerto Rican (Paloma Sabanera, Blue Pigeon) Columba inornata 

 Red-billed Columba flavirostris (313) 

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

 White-crowned Columba 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 alezandrinus (278) 

 Upland Bartramia longicauda (261) 

 Wilson's Charadrius wUsania (280) 

 Rail, Black Laterallus jamaicensis (216) 

 Clapper Rallus longirostris (210) 

 King Rallus elegans (208) 

 Sora Porzana Carolina (214) 

 Virginia Rallus limicola (212) 

 Yellow Coturnicops noveboracensis (215) 

 Yellow-bellied (Gallareta Chiquita) Porzana llaviventer 

 Sanderling Crocethia alba (248) 

 Sandpiper, Baird's Erolia bairdii (241) 



Buff-breasted Tryngites subrulicoUis (262) j^ 



Curlew Erolia ferruginea (244) KI 



Least Erolia minutilla (242) 



Pectoral Erolia melanolos (239) 



Purple Erolia maritima (235) 



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



Semipalmated Ereunetes pusillus (246) 



Sharp-tailed Erolia acuminata (238) 



Solitary Tringa solitaria (256) 



Spotted Actitis macularia (263) 



Stilt Micropalama himantopus (233) 



Western Ereunetes mauri (247) 



White-rumped Erolia fuscicollis (240) 



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



Stilt, Black-necked Himantopus meiicanus (226) 



Surfbird Aphriza virgata (282) '"-^■^ 



Swan, Trumpeter O^r ftuccinaior (181) c:j 



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 Havipes (255) 









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