Defenders' Experts
Cerulean Warbler
The
cerulean warbler, once a common sight in the forests of the eastern
United
States, is vanishing at an alarming
rate. Over the past four decades, the cerulean’s numbers have declined by
seventy percent. Between 1966 and 1999, it declined an average of 4% per year
throughout its eastern breeding range. Within the species core range
(Midwest and Southeast) the total
population decline is closer to eighty percent.
Management and Policy
Defenders believes the cerulean warbler should be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Unfortunately the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service didn’t agree and in December 2006 officially declined to list the species. Without federal protection, there is little that can be done to stop the destruction of important cerulean warbler habitat.
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