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Utah leads multi-agency effort to craft conservation agreement and strategy for pinyon jay
Summary
DWR outlined a voluntary, non-regulatory conservation agreement and strategy to address steep pinyon jay declines and to inform the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service species status assessment and potential ESA decision.
State wildlife and federal partners told the WRI conference they are drafting a conservation agreement and strategy focused on the pinyon jay after survey data and national Breeding Bird Survey trends identified steep declines.
Scott Gibson, the state pinyon jay biologist, described the species’ range, social behavior and recent declines: national Breeding Bird Survey trends indicate an estimated 84% decline from the 1960s through the 2010s and a global population estimate near 770,000 birds. Defenders of Wildlife petitioned the species for Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing in…
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