Spanning 5.9 million square km, the boreal region of North America stretches from Alaska to
Newfoundland, and represents 25% of the earth's remaining intact forests. As one of the …

“A wonderful book that highlights the globally unique and important boreal forest ecoregion
from an avian perspective, with fresh twists. Your ideas about where those migrant and …

N orth America's boreal forest region is considered one of the most intact and least disturbed
of the globe's terrestrial forested ecosystems (Lee et al. 2006). Its nearly 600 million hectares …

An estimated 3–5 billion birds migrate south from the boreal forest ecoregions of Alaska and
Canada every fall to winter across the Americas. Many of these boreal forest breeding birds …

Habitat loss remains the major threat to birds in the Neotropics, although there are several
additional specific threats, for example trade, nest parasitism, invasives on islands, and for …

Human development is increasing pressure on North America's mainly intact boreal forest.
We outline the need for a comprehensive synthesis of existing data and for effective …

Abstract The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) was established in 1966 in
response to a lack of quantitative data on changes in the populations of many bird species at …

The Baja California peninsula is an important area for conservation of bird diversity in
northwestern México (CCA 1999, Arizmendi and Marquez 2000). It has been classified as …

The boreal forests of North America support billions of birds of over 300 species. The region
remains mostly intact but is expected to undergo major changes over the next century due to …

Many North American boreal forest birds reach the southern periphery of their distribution in
the montane spruce–fir forests of northeastern United States and the barren coastal forests …