The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
160,000), American Samoa (55,000), and the Northern Mariana Islands (54,000). There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area. But other species have not been recorded in the ABA Area, including, of course, all 16 Puerto Rican endemics.
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