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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