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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

10,000 Birds

For example, the federal government owns less than 1% in Connecticut but nearly 80% in Nevada. BLM land is particularly important for conservation of the Greater Sage-Grouse and other sageland species. The birds that rely on federal lands therefore include virtually every species that spends meaningful time in the United States.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

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