Birds – Oregon Conservation Strategy

There are 58 birds identified as Strategy Species in the Oregon Conservation Strategy.

American Three-toed Woodpecker

Picoides dorsalis

Yellow Rail

Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis

Strategy Spotlight: Bald Eagle Recovery

2012 was a very significant year in wildlife conservation. Our nation’s symbol, the Bald Eagle, was removed from the Oregon state threatened species list.

Its recovery has been called “remarkable” and “amazing”. In 1963, only 487 nesting pairs of Bald Eagles remained in the nation. The pesticide DDT, habitat loss, and illegal shooting had taken a toll on the species.

The federal government banned the use of DDT in 1972 and listed the Bald Eagle under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1978. Recovery took decades and involved agencies, organizations, politicians, landowners, and the American public.

In 2007, there were 9,789 known nesting pairs in the contiguous U.S., and the Bald Eagle was removed from the federal ESA. In Oregon, just 65 breeding pairs were documented in 1978. By 2010, that number climbed to 570.

In March 2012, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission formally removed the Bald Eagle from protection of the Oregon Endangered Species Act. Bald and Golden Eagles continue to be protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

There are 58 birds identified as Strategy Species in the Oregon Conservation Strategy.

Acorn Woodpecker

American Three-toed Woodpecker

American White Pelican

Black Brant

Black Oystercatcher

Black Swift

Black-backed Woodpecker

Black-necked Stilt

Bobolink

Brewer’s Sparrow

Brown Pelican

Burrowing Owl

Caspian Tern

Chipping Sparrow

Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse

Common Nighthawk

Dusky Canada Goose

Ferruginous Hawk

Flammulated Owl

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel

Franklin’s Gull

Grasshopper Sparrow

Great Gray Owl

Greater Sage-Grouse

Greater Sandhill Crane

Harlequin Duck

Juniper Titmouse

Leach’s Storm-Petrel

Lewis’s Woodpecker

Loggerhead Shrike

Long-billed Curlew

Marbled Murrelet

Mountain Quail

Northern Goshawk

Northern Spotted Owl

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Oregon Vesper Sparrow

Peregrine Falcon

Pileated Woodpecker

Purple Martin

Red-necked Grebe

Rock Sandpiper

Sagebrush Sparrow

Short-eared Owl

Snowy Egret

Streaked Horned Lark

Swainson’s Hawk

Trumpeter Swan

Tufted Puffin

Upland Sandpiper

Western Bluebird

Western Meadowlark

Western Snowy Plover

White-breasted Nuthatch

White-headed Woodpecker

Willow Flycatcher

Yellow Rail

Yellow-breasted Chat