Wilson Bulletin 47:237. (3) All of its known occurrences in the United States can be best (or most reasonably) explained by intentional or unintentional human-assisted introductions to the wild. Service Response: Of the 124 species included on the final list, only one, the mute swan, has ever been treated as Federally protected under the MBTA. publication in the future. While every effort has been made to ensure that Condor 59:267-268. 2003. 311 pp. Shufeldt on fossil birds from Oregon. 1990. However, being an introduced species, they are not protected from being hunted and they have become popular as a game bird in rural southeast US and Texas. 143 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, Pub. documents in the last year, 10 Like the lanner and saker, barbary falcons are regularly imported into this country for use in recreational falconry or bird control at airports, and are believed to sometimes escape from their handlers, but we have found no literature documenting the presence of escapes in the United States. documents in the last year, 344 Dendrocitta vagabunda, Rufous Treepie (Bull 1974). Volume 4. A simple solution would be to install a model owl in a prominent area of the roofspace(available from many garden centres). Service Response: Congress explicitly stated its sense that the language of the MBTRA was “consistent with the intent and language of the four bilateral treaties implemented by” the MBTA. Biologists annually band mourning doves in South Dakota to learn about survival and movements. The List. does not apply,” as required by the MBTRA of 2004. does not apply,” as described in the MBTRA of 2004 (Division E, Title I, Sec. Dover Publications, New York. Baptist. What Criteria Did We Use To Identify Bird Species Not Protected by the MBTA? In a separate letter, we have informed MBTA Advocates that we have denied their petition. Western Birds 28:45-95. Issue 5: Several reviewers complained that we had not ruled out the possibility of natural occurrence in the United States or its territories for one or more of the species included on the draft list, with the following 19 being specifically mentioned by one or more respondents: bar-headed goose, red-breasted goose, mute swan, white-faced whistling duck, ruddy shelduck, common shelduck, white stork, king vulture, red-backed hawk, great black-hawk, southern lapwing, blue-headed quail-dove, black-throated mango, San Blas jay, great tit, greater Antillean bullfinch, Cuban bullfinch, Cuban grassquit, and European greenfinch. documents in the last year, by the Internal Revenue Service Counts are subject to sampling, reprocessing and revision (up or down) throughout the day. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia 11:389-425. Wetmore, A. 2003). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 61, 63 pp. 1974. documents in the last year, 22 553(e), to add the mute swan to the list of birds covered by the MBTA found at 50 CFR 10.13. Just stating CORRECT facts. It may not display this or other websites correctly. The OFR/GPO partnership is committed to presenting accurate and reliable Through natural expansion, it is now a “Rare visitor on the Rio Grande in Texas (Hildalgo, Starr, and Zapata counties), where breeding was reported in 1994” (ibid. Pranty, B. Service Response: The muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) has been domesticated for hundreds of years, with feral birds now being broadly distributed across the globe. The collared dove is an eastern European species that was unknown in Britain 60 years ago. None of the listed families are strictly nonnative to the United States or Mexico. Bull, J. documents in the last year, 647 Monroe, B.L., Jr., and C.G. The absence of mute swans in the works of Wilson and Audubon, together with the absence of verifiable 18th or 19th century specimen records, is sufficient evidence for us to conclude that the mute swan is not native to the United States or its territories. The Check-list was supplemented, where necessary, by Phillips's (1928) Wild birds introduced or transplanted in North America, Long's (1981) Introduced birds of the world, Berger's (1981) Hawaiian birdlife, Stevenson and Anderson's (1994) The birdlife of Florida, and more than 200 other sources. The following 14 species were overlooked in the notice of January 4 but there is substantial evidence of nonnative human-introduced Start Printed Page 12714occurrence in the United States or its territories, so we add them to the final list (the authorities upon which these determinations are based are noted parenthetically): Nettapus coromandelianus, Cotton Pygmy-goose (Pranty 2004). 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