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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

10,000 Birds

160,000), American Samoa (55,000), and the Northern Mariana Islands (54,000). Although most conservation research focuses on northern breeding grounds, many ABA Area birds spend most of the year elsewhere. cities it is more convenient than Alaska or Hawaii or many smaller cities in the lower 48. The only other populated U.S.