Global Warming

California's climate threatened and endangered birds

Of the 314 North American birds identified by Audubon as either climate threatened or climate endangered, more than 170 commonly occur in California.
Global Warming

California's climate threatened and endangered birds

Of the 314 North American birds identified by Audubon as either climate threatened or climate endangered, more than 170 commonly occur in California.

Of the 314 North American birds identified by Audubon as either climate threatened or climate endangered, more than 170 commonly occur in California. Here's the full list. Birds that are classified as Climate Threatened are projected to lost more than 50 percent of their current range by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace. Birds designated Climate Endangered are projected to lose more than 50 percent of their current range by 2050.

Bird’s common name

Audubon climate designation

Allen's Hummingbird

ENDANGERED

American Avocet

ENDANGERED

American Bittern

ENDANGERED

American Dipper

THREATENED

American Kestrel

THREATENED

American Pipit

THREATENED

American White Pelican

ENDANGERED

American Wigeon

ENDANGERED

Ancient Murrelet

THREATENED

Bald Eagle

ENDANGERED

Band-tailed Pigeon

THREATENED

Bank Swallow

ENDANGERED

Barn Owl

THREATENED

Bell's Sparrow

ENDANGERED

Bell's Vireo

THREATENED

Bendire's Thrasher

THREATENED

Black Oystercatcher

ENDANGERED

Black Skimmer

ENDANGERED

Black Swift

ENDANGERED

Black Tern

THREATENED

Black-backed Woodpecker

THREATENED

Black-bellied Plover

THREATENED

Black-billed Magpie

ENDANGERED

Black-chinned Hummingbird

THREATENED

Black-chinned Sparrow

THREATENED

Black-crowned Night-Heron

ENDANGERED

Black-headed Grosbeak

THREATENED

Black-throated Gray Warbler

THREATENED

Blue-winged Teal

THREATENED

Brant

THREATENED

Brewer's Blackbird

THREATENED

Brewer's Sparrow

THREATENED

Brown Creeper

ENDANGERED

Brown Pelican

ENDANGERED

Bufflehead

ENDANGERED

Bullock's Oriole

THREATENED

Burrowing Owl

ENDANGERED

California Gull

ENDANGERED

Calliope Hummingbird

THREATENED

Caspian Tern

THREATENED

Cassin's Auklet

THREATENED

Cassin's Finch

THREATENED

Cinnamon Teal

ENDANGERED

Clapper Rail

THREATENED

Clark's Grebe

ENDANGERED

Clark's Nutcracker

ENDANGERED

Common Goldeneye

THREATENED

Common Loon

ENDANGERED

Common Merganser

THREATENED

Common Poorwill

ENDANGERED

Common Raven

THREATENED

Double-crested Cormorant

THREATENED

Dunlin

ENDANGERED

Dusky Flycatcher

THREATENED

Eared Grebe

ENDANGERED

Eurasian Wigeon

THREATENED

Evening Grosbeak

THREATENED

Ferruginous Hawk

ENDANGERED

Forster's Tern

THREATENED

Gadwall

ENDANGERED

Gila Woodpecker

THREATENED

Glaucous-winged Gull

THREATENED

Golden Eagle

ENDANGERED

Golden-crowned Kinglet

THREATENED

Gray Flycatcher

THREATENED

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

ENDANGERED

Great Gray Owl

ENDANGERED

Greater Sage-Grouse

ENDANGERED

Greater Scaup

ENDANGERED

Greater White-fronted Goose

THREATENED

Greater Yellowlegs

THREATENED

Green-tailed Towhee

ENDANGERED

Gull-billed Tern

ENDANGERED

Hairy Woodpecker

THREATENED

Hammond's Flycatcher

THREATENED

Hermit Thrush

THREATENED

Hermit Warbler

ENDANGERED

Herring Gull

ENDANGERED

Hooded Merganser

ENDANGERED

Hooded Oriole

THREATENED

Horned Grebe

ENDANGERED

House Finch

THREATENED

Hutton's Vireo

ENDANGERED

Lawrence's Goldfinch

THREATENED

Le Conte's Thrasher

THREATENED

Least Bittern

ENDANGERED

Least Tern

ENDANGERED

Lesser Scaup

THREATENED

Lesser Yellowlegs

ENDANGERED

Lewis's Woodpecker

THREATENED

Long-billed Curlew

ENDANGERED

Long-eared Owl

ENDANGERED

Mallard

ENDANGERED

Marbled Godwit

ENDANGERED

Marsh Wren

THREATENED

Merlin

ENDANGERED

Mountain Bluebird

THREATENED

Mountain Chickadee

THREATENED

Mountain Plover

THREATENED

Mountain Quail

THREATENED

Nashville Warbler

THREATENED

Northern Fulmar

THREATENED

Northern Harrier

ENDANGERED

Northern Pygmy-Owl

ENDANGERED

Northern Saw-whet Owl

ENDANGERED

Northern Shoveler

ENDANGERED

Osprey

ENDANGERED

Pacific Wren

THREATENED

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

THREATENED

Peregrine Falcon

THREATENED

Pigeon Guillemot

THREATENED

Pine Siskin

THREATENED

Pinyon Jay

THREATENED

Prairie Falcon

ENDANGERED

Purple Finch

THREATENED

Pygmy Nuthatch

ENDANGERED

Red Crossbill

ENDANGERED

Red-breasted Merganser

ENDANGERED

Red-breasted Nuthatch

THREATENED

Red-breasted Sapsucker

THREATENED

Red-naped Sapsucker

ENDANGERED

Red-throated Loon

THREATENED

Redhead

ENDANGERED

Rhinoceros Auklet

THREATENED

Ring-billed Gull

ENDANGERED

Ring-necked Duck

ENDANGERED

Royal Tern

ENDANGERED

Ruddy Turnstone

ENDANGERED

Rufous Hummingbird

ENDANGERED

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

THREATENED

Sage Thrasher

THREATENED

Sandhill Crane

THREATENED

Semipalmated Plover

ENDANGERED

Short-billed Dowitcher

ENDANGERED

Short-eared Owl

ENDANGERED

Snowy Plover

THREATENED

Sooty Grouse

THREATENED

Spotted Owl

ENDANGERED

Spotted Sandpiper

THREATENED

Surfbird

ENDANGERED

Swainson's Hawk

ENDANGERED

Townsend's Solitaire

ENDANGERED

Townsend's Warbler

THREATENED

Tree Swallow

THREATENED

Tricolored Blackbird

THREATENED

Tundra Swan

ENDANGERED

Varied Thrush

ENDANGERED

Vaux's Swift

ENDANGERED

Vesper Sparrow

THREATENED

Violet-green Swallow

THREATENED

Western Bluebird

THREATENED

Western Grebe

ENDANGERED

Western Gull

ENDANGERED

Western Screech-Owl

THREATENED

Western Tanager

THREATENED

Western Wood-Pewee

ENDANGERED

Whimbrel

THREATENED

White-breasted Nuthatch

THREATENED

White-faced Ibis

ENDANGERED

White-headed Woodpecker

ENDANGERED

White-tailed Kite

THREATENED

White-throated Swift

THREATENED

Willet

ENDANGERED

Williamson's Sapsucker

ENDANGERED

Willow Flycatcher

THREATENED

Wilson's Phalarope

ENDANGERED

Wilson's Warbler

THREATENED

Wood Duck

THREATENED

Yellow-billed Magpie

ENDANGERED

Yellow-headed Blackbird

ENDANGERED

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