Your input needed!

SCSCB's TBWG aims to coordinate and engage the SCSCB membership in monitoring, evaluating and conserving the most threatened of our Caribbean bird species, working in close collaboration with all the other SCSCB Working Groups and BirdLife International (the official Listing Authority for birds for the IUCN Red List). The strategic focus of the TBWG is on helping SCSCB meet its strategic objective to “Improve the conservation status of threatened and endemic Caribbean birds.”

During the Threatened Birds of the Caribbean workshop (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 20 July 2007), SCSCB members identified a need: To focus on contributing to the 2008 IUCN Red List assessment by commenting on, updating and correcting the Caribbean threatened species profiles posted on http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html.

Draft threatened bird fact sheets are posted here on the SCSCB website for you to review. Your comments will provide a valuable contribution to the re-evaluation of all the world’s birds for 2008 (as part of the IUCN Red List process) when it will be released as Threatened Birds of the World 2008 CD-ROM, in addition to continued availability of species fact sheets through the BirdLife website (see http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html).

The TBWG would be grateful for any review comments (in track changes) that you can make on the species fact sheets so that these profiles are as up-to-date and accurate (and therefore useful to conservation) as possible. Review comments are needed during December.

Please send comments to David Wege

Threatened Birds of the Caribbean	IUCN Category
Trinidad Piping-guan Pipile pipile	CR
West Indian Whistling-duck Dendrocygna arborea	VU
Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow	EN
Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata	EN
Jamaica Petrel Pterodroma caribbaea	CR
Cuban Kite Chondrohierax wilsonii	CR
Gundlach's Hawk Accipiter gundlachi	EN
Ridgway's Hawk Buteo ridgwayi	CR
Zapata Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai	EN
Ring-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas caribaea	VU
Grenada Dove Leptotila wellsi	CR
Grey-headed Quail-dove Geotrygon caniceps	VU
Blue-headed Quail-dove Starnoenas cyanocephala	EN
Cuban Parakeet Aratinga euops	VU
Hispaniolan Parakeet Aratinga chloroptera	VU
Yellow-billed Amazon Amazona collaria	VU
Hispaniolan Amazon Amazona ventralis	VU
Black-billed Amazon Amazona agilis	VU
Puerto Rican Amazon Amazona vittata	CR
Yellow-shouldered Amazon Amazona barbadensis	VU
St Lucia Amazon Amazona versicolor	VU
Red-necked Amazon Amazona arausiaca	VU
St Vincent Amazon Amazona guildingii	VU
Imperial Amazon Amazona imperialis	EN
Bay-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus rufigularis	EN
Jamaican Pauraque Siphonorhis americana	CR
Puerto Rican Nightjar Caprimulgus noctitherus	CR
Fernandina's Flicker Colaptes fernandinae	VU
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis	CR
Giant Kingbird Tyrannus cubensis	EN
White-necked Crow Corvus leucognaphalus	VU
Bahama Swallow Tachycineta cyaneoviridis	VU
Golden Swallow Tachycineta euchrysea	VU
Zapata Wren Ferminia cerverai	EN
White-breasted Thrasher Ramphocinclus brachyurus	EN
Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli	VU
La Selle Thrush Turdus swalesi	EN
Forest Thrush Cichlherminia lherminieri	VU
Hispaniolan Crossbill Loxia megaplaga	EN
Elfin-woods Warbler Dendroica angelae	VU
Whistling Warbler Catharopeza bishopi	EN
Semper's Warbler Leucopeza semperi	CR
White-winged Warbler Xenoligea montana	VU
Montserrat Oriole Icterus oberi	CR
Martinique Oriole Icterus bonana	VU
Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus	EN
Yellow-shouldered Blackbird Agelaius xanthomus	EN
Cuban Sparrow Torreornis inexpectata	EN
St Lucia Black Finch Melanospiza richardsoni	EN
Chat Tanager Calyptophilus frugivorus	VU

More about the TBWG - Reports from 2007 TBWG meeting and the 2005 TBWG meeting