Bendire's Thrasher
Common
Name: Bendire's Thrasher
(BETH)
Scientific
Name:
Toxostoma
bendirei
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: IUCN 2004 Red List – VU
(Vulnerable)
National-level
Conservation Status:
U.S.
– Bird of Conservation Concern
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 71 (England and Laudenslayer 1993)
Distribution:
Breeds from se
California
(primarily ne and s-c
San Bernardino
County
), s
Nevada
, s
Utah
, s-c
Colorado
(Saguache and Costilla counties), and w and c
New Mexico
(east to Sandoval and Socorro counties) south to c
Sonora
. Winters from s
Arizona
, and extreme sw
New Mexico
south through
Sonora
to n Sinoloa (AOU 1998).
Habitat
Associations:
Desert, primarily in areas with tall open vegetation, cholla
cactus, Joshua trees, and yucca, and adjacent juniper woodland, locally in
agricultural areas with adjacent scrub and arid grassland with scattered
bushes and yuccas (AOU 1998).
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: New Mexico Bird
Conservation Plan; BNA No. 71 (England and Laudenslayer 1993); PIF
Monitoring Needs document (Partners in Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: Mo2 (BBS trends have very
low precision)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – Conduct early spring desert surveys (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Conduct new winter surveys (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- High
priority candidate for rapid status assessment (PIF Monitoring Needs
doc)
- Supplemental
BETH Surveys
- Habitat specific monitoring of Chihuahuan Desert Shrub species in
New Mexico
including BETH (
New Mexico
); Determine population status of BETH in
New Mexico
(
New Mexico
)
Habitat
Needs/Ecology/Life History
- Determine
ecology of BETH in
New Mexico
(
New Mexico
)
Effects
of Human Development/Disturbance
- Need
quantitative information on the effects of human activities on BETH
(BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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