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[Pajarita]

Received today from the Audubon Society

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Yellow-billed Cuckoos can be found only in a fraction of their former range in the American West, a decline linked to the loss of more than 90 percent of their breeding habitat—the cottonwood and willow forests that once lined the banks of many western rivers. To help this struggling species, last Thursday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) added the western population of Yellow-billed Cuckoos (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) to the “threatened” list of species under the Endangered Species Act. To go hand-in-hand with the listing, FWS is proposing to designate more than half a million acres of critical habitat for the cuckoos, to protect it from development.

Send your public comments in support of protecting these imperiled birds today. The deadline to comment is next Tuesday, October 14.

Dams built across many Southwestern river corridors have wiped out much of this species' historic cottonwood-willow breeding grounds. Land along rivers and streams also has been lost to farming, water diversion, stream channelization projects to straighten the rivers, and livestock grazing. Groundwater pumping and non-native plant invasions also have taken their toll on the streamside habitats that western Yellow-billed Cuckoos depend on. Extended drought and predicted climate change further jeopardize the western population of this species.

The FWS proposal to protect critical habitat will promote the implementation of water and land management practices that will allow for the recovery of the streamside habitats that cuckoos need to survive.

Please send your public comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to support its efforts to protect the western Yellow-billed Cuckoo from extinction.
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This is the link: http://www.audubonaction.org/site/R?i=F ... 1jaCk2BP4g

[Wolf]

Thank you for the information as well as the link. I will go there either tonight or in the morning.