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PINE PLANTATION: Priority Species

Population estimates and targets (numbers represent individuals unless otherwise indicated) for priority species of pine savannah habitat in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain. Estimates were extrapolated from BBS relative abundances unless otherwise indicated; they should be considered an index of relative population sizes and only a VERY APPROXIMATE estimate of true population sizes.

 
Conservation Score
Population Estimate
% Loss Since 1966
Population Target
Prairie Warbler 25 76,000 >50%
152,000
Bachman's Sparrow 25 <200** ? 200
Blue-winged Warbler 24 4,300 >50% 8,600
Brown-headed Nuthatch 23 800 >50% 1,600
Eastern Wood-Pewee 22 130,700 45% 250,000
White-eyed Vireo 22      
Northern Bobwhite 21 122,000 >50% 250,000
Carolina Chickadee 21      
Brown Thrasher 21 52,000 >50% 100,000
Eastern Towhee 21 265,400 >50% 530,000
Field Sparrow 21 119,000 >50% 240,000
Gray Catbird 19 313,300 >50% 625,000
Yellow-breasted Chat 19 110,000
25%
150,000

*Estimate from Virginia population (Fleming and Alstine 1994a, 1994b, Watts et al. 1998)

 
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