Archives for Riparian Habitat

This document represents the second iteration of the Riparian Bird Conservation Plan. A review of the original focal species list revealed the need to add three new species to better capture the diversity of habitat niches found in California riparian systems and to account for species which are experiencing range reductions in the state. Following the same criteria established in the selection of the original 14 focal species, Spotted Sandpiper, Tree Swallow, and Tricolored Blackbird were added. Also new to this version is a process description for setting population objectives for select focal species using current monitoring data and GIS data layers. In this version, examples from Central Valley Basins are used to estimate current and potential population size.