Archives for Boreal Forest

The Evening Grosbeak is featured on the cover of the 2016 PIF Landbird Conservation Plan, as it has the dubious honor of experiencing the steepest population decline (92% since 1970) of all landbirds in the continental U.S. and Canada.

While harvested landscapes have increased throughout its breeding range, the Olive-sided Flycatcher has continued to decline, suggesting that conditions on the wintering grounds may be driving its negative population trend.

As an extreme habitat specialist, the Bicknell’s Thrush has a very limited range, breeding primarily in high elevation stunted montane spruce-fir forests of the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada.

The Canada Warbler inhabits shady forest undergrowth year round, making this species vulnerable to forest loss. Canada Warblers spend the majority of the nonbreeding season in the northern Andes, which is among the most threatened in the world, having experienced a 90% loss of forest due to agricultural expansion (cattle, coffee, coca) and fuel wood production.