Sprague's Pipit
Common
Name: Sprague's Pipit (SPPI)
Scientific
Name:
Anthus
spragueii
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: IUCN
2004 Red List – VU (Vulnerable)
National-level
Conservation Status:
Canada
- Species at Risk Act (SARA) – Threatened;
U.S.
– Bird of Conservation Concern
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 439 (Robbins and Dale 1999); USGS Northern
Prairie
Wildlife
Research
Center
Document (Dechant et al. 2003)
Distribution:
Breeds from n-c
British Columbia
(locally), n-c
Alberta
, c
Saskatchewan
, and w-c and s
Manitoba
south to
Montana
, w
South Dakota
,
North Dakota
, and nw
Minnesota
. Winters from s-c and se
Arizona, s New Mexico, c and e Texas, s Kansas, s Oklahoma, Arkansas, s
Missouri, Tennessee, nw Mississippi, and Louisiana south through Mexico
(except the nw portion) to northern Michoacán, Puebla, and c Veracruz,
casually north to s California (AOU 1998).
Habitat
Associations:
Well-drained short-grass prairie (breeding); also in pastures and
fields in medium-height grass (non-breeding) (AOU 1998).
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs (Number in ( ) is Physiographic Area number):
Osage Plains Bird Conservation Plan (33); Montana Bird Conservation Plan;
New Mexico Bird Conservation Plan; Canadian Action Plans (Dunn 2002); PIF
Monitoring Needs document (Partners in Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: ** (Long-term population
trend monitoring considered adequate, but some issues (e.g., bias) may not
be accounted for)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – NOTE: Breeding
Bird Survey (BBS) provides acceptable data at the continental level (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Improve the BBS (PIF Monitoring Needs
doc)
- Supplemental
SPPI Surveys
- Pursue Grassland Bird Monitoring, which detects more birds at more
locations than BBS (Canadian Action Plan); Conduct count-based surveys
of all bird species in mixed grasslands including SPPI (
Montana
)
- see
needs under "Wintering"
Habitat
Needs/Ecology/Life History
- see
needs under "Wintering” and “Demography"
Wintering
- Determine
SPPI's wintering habitat requirements/associations (
New Mexico
; Osage Plains)
- Improve
bird and habitat monitoring on the wintering grounds (Canadian Action
Plan)
- Determine
patterns of SPPI winter distribution and abundance (Osage Plains)
- see
needs under "Demography"
Invasives/Exotics/Disease/Parasites/Contaminants
- Determine
effects of exotics on grassland habitat suitability for priority
species including SPPI (
Montana
)
Demographics
- Demography
in relation to habitat quality and management regime, both summer and
winter (Canadian Action Plan)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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