I can't speak to habitat trends in Minnesota for this species, but certainly in North Carolina and Virginia's mountains where it occurs, it's habitat is rapidly decreasing. One of the most ridiculous statements I've ever heard was made by an official of a private bird "advocacy" organization, saying that national forests in the region didn't need to be managed for early-successional bird species because there was a sufficient amount of such habitat on surrounding private lands - hogwash!!! Cow pastures and hayfields do not constitute early-successional habitat as is needed by Golden-winged Warblers or Yellow-breasted Chats. These are also species which probably suffer from the current elevated deer populations across their range. Doesn't look good for them, unfortunately... On a brighter note, I encountered Henslow's Sparrows in decent numbers at Blue Mounds State Park. Assuming they hang around for the duration of the breeding season, one should find them audible from a number of places along park trails. Eric Harrold --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Jim <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Jim <[email protected]> Subject: [mou-net] Golden-winged Warbler "threatened or endangered" To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 8:48 PM The Golden-winged Warbler, with 40 percent of its world population breeding in Minnesota, is being considered for 'threatened' or 'endangered' status, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For more information, go to www.startribune.com/blogs/wingnut Jim Williams Wayzata ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
