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Florida Natural Areas Inventory Avian Species Ranking List

Scientific Name	Common Name	GRANK	SRANK	Federal	State
Accipiter cooperii	Cooper's Hawk	G5	S3	N	N
Aimophila aestivalis	Bachman's Sparrow	G3	S3	N	N
Ammodramus maritimus fisheri	Louisiana Seaside Sparrow	G4T4	S1	N	N
Ammodramus maritimus macgillivraii	Macgillivray's Seaside Sparrow	G4T2	S2	N	N
Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis	Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow	G4T1	S1	LE	LE
Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens	Dusky Seaside Sparrow	G4TX	SX	N	N
Ammodramus maritimus peninsulae	Scott's Seaside Sparrow	G4T3Q	S3	N	LS
Ammodramus savannarum floridanus	Florida Grasshopper Sparrow	G5T1	S1	LE	LE
Anous stolidus	Brown Noddy	G5	S1	N	N
Aphelocoma coerulescens	Florida Scrub-jay	G2	S2	LT	LT
Aramus guarauna	Limpkin	G5	S3	N	LS
Ardea alba	Great Egret	G5	S4	N	N
Ardea herodias occidentalis	Great White Heron	G5T2	S2	N	N
Athene cunicularia floridana	Florida Burrowing Owl	G4T3	S3	N	LS
Buteo brachyurus	Short-tailed Hawk	G4G5	S1	N	N
Campephilus principalis	Ivory-billed Woodpecker	GH	SH	LE	LE
Caracara cheriway	Crested Caracara	G5	S2	LT	LT
Charadrius alexandrinus	Snowy Plover	G4	S1	N	LT
Charadrius melodus	Piping Plover	G3	S2	LT	LT
Charadrius wilsonia	Wilson's Plover	G5	S2	N	N
Chordeiles gundlachii	Antillean Nighthawk	G4	S2	N	N
Cistothorus palustris griseus	Worthington's Marsh Wren	G5T3	S2	N	LS
Cistothorus palustris marianae	Marian's Marsh Wren	G5T3	S3	N	LS
Coccyzus minor	Mangrove Cuckoo	G5	S3	N	N
Conuropsis carolinensis	Carolina Parakeet	GX	SX	N	N
Dendroica discolor paludicola	Florida Prairie Warbler	G5T3	S3	N	N
Dendroica kirtlandii	Kirtland's Warbler	G1	S1	LE	LE
Dendroica petechia gundlachi	Cuban Yellow Warbler	G5T4	S3	N	N
Ectopistes migratorius	Passenger Pigeon	GX	SX	N	N
Egretta caerulea	Little Blue Heron	G5	S4	N	LS
Egretta rufescens	Reddish Egret	G4	S2	N	LS
Egretta thula	Snowy Egret	G5	S3	N	LS
Egretta tricolor	Tricolored Heron	G5	S4	N	LS
Elanoides forficatus	Swallow-tailed Kite	G5	S2	N	N
Elanus leucurus	White-tailed Kite	G5	S1	N	N
Eudocimus albus	White Ibis	G5	S4	N	LS
Falco columbarius	Merlin	G5	S2	N	N
Falco peregrinus	Peregrine Falcon	G4	S2	N	LE
Falco sparverius paulus	Southeastern American Kestrel	G5T4	S3	N	LT
Fregata magnificens	Magnificent Frigatebird	G5	S1	N	N
Geotrygon chrysia	Key West Quail-dove	G3	SH	N	N
Grus americana	Whooping Crane	G1	SNR	LE,XN	LS
Grus canadensis pratensis	Florida Sandhill Crane	G5T2T3	S2S3	N	LT
Haematopus palliatus	American Oystercatcher	G5	S2	N	LS
Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Bald Eagle	G5	S3	N	LT
Helmitheros vermivorum	Worm-eating Warbler	G5	S1	N	N
Ixobrychus exilis	Least Bittern	G5	S4	N	N
Laterallus jamaicensis	Black Rail	G4	S2	N	N
Mycteria americana	Wood Stork	G4	S2	LE	LE
Nyctanassa violacea	Yellow-crowned Night-heron	G5	S3	N	N
Nycticorax nycticorax	Black-crowned Night-heron	G5	S3	N	N
Pandion haliaetus	Osprey	G5	S3S4	N	LS*
Passerina ciris	Painted Bunting	G5	S3	N	N
Patagioenas leucocephala	White-crowned Pigeon	G3	S3	N	LT
Pelecanus occidentalis	Brown Pelican	G4	S3	N	LS
Picoides borealis	Red-cockaded Woodpecker	G3	S2	LE	LS
Picoides villosus	Hairy Woodpecker	G5	S3	N	N
Platalea ajaja	Roseate Spoonbill	G5	S2	N	LS
Plegadis falcinellus	Glossy Ibis	G5	S3	N	N
Rallus longirostris insularum	Mangrove Clapper Rail	G5T3	S3	N	N
Rallus longirostris scottii	Florida Clapper Rail	G5T3?	S3?	N	N
Recurvirostra americana	American Avocet	G5	S2	N	N
Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus	Snail Kite	G4G5T3Q	S2	LE	LE
Rynchops niger	Black Skimmer	G5	S3	N	LS
Seiurus motacilla	Louisiana Waterthrush	G5	S2	N	N
Setophaga ruticilla	American Redstart	G5	S2	N	N
Sitta carolinensis	White-breasted Nuthatch	G5	S2	N	N
Sterna antillarum	Least Tern	G4	S3	N	LT
Sterna caspia	Caspian Tern	G5	S2	N	N
Sterna dougallii	Roseate Tern	G4	S1	LT	LT
Sterna fuscata	Sooty Tern	G5	S1	N	N
Sterna maxima	Royal Tern	G5	S3	N	N
Sterna nilotica	Gull-billed Tern	G5	S2	N	N
Sterna sandvicensis	Sandwich Tern	G5	S2	N	N
Vermivora bachmanii	Bachman's Warbler	GH	SH	LE	LE
Vireo altiloquus	Black-whiskered Vireo	G5	S3	N	N
Zenaida aurita	Zenaida Dove	G5	SH	N	N

* State listed as LS (Species of Special Concern) in Monroe County only; not listed in rest of state.

GLOBAL AND STATE RANKS

Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) defines an element as any rare or exemplary component of the natural environment, such as a species, natural community, bird rookery, spring, sinkhole, cave, or other ecological feature. FNAI assigns two ranks to each element found in Florida: the global rank, which is based on an element's worldwide status, and the state rank, which is based on the status of the element within Florida. Element ranks are based on many factors, including estimated number of occurrences, estimated abundance (for species and populations) or area (for natural communities), estimated number of adequately protected occurrences, range, threats, and ecological fragility.

GLOBAL RANK DEFINITIONS

G1	Critically imperiled globally because of extreme rarity (5 or fewer occurrences or less than 1000 individuals) or because of extreme vulnerability to extinction due to some natural or human factor.
G2	Imperiled globally because of rarity (6 to 20 occurrences or less than 3000 individuals) or because of vulnerability to extinction due to some natural or human factor.
G3	Either very rare and local throughout its range (21-100 occurrences or less than 10,000 individuals), or found locally in a restricted range, or vulnerable to extinction from other factors.
G4	Apparently secure globally (may be rare in parts of range).
G5	Demonstrably secure globally.
GH	Occurred historically throughout its range, but has not been observed for many years.
GX	Believed to be extinct throughout range.
GXC	Extirpated from the wild but still known from captivity or cultivation.
G#?	Rank uncertain (e.g., G2?).
G#G#	Range of rank; insufficient data to assign specific global rank (e.g., G2G3)
G#T#	Rank of a taxonomic subgroup such as a subspecies or variety; the G portion of the rank refers to the entire species, and the T portion refers to the subgroup; T# has same definition as G#.
G#Q	Ranked as species but there is some question as to whether it is a valid species.
G#T#Q	Same as above, but validity as subspecies or variety is questioned.
GU	Global rank unknown; due to lack of information, no rank or range can be assigned.
G?	Temporarily not ranked.

STATE RANK DEFINITIONS

State ranks (S#) follow the same system and have the same definitions as global ranks, except they apply only to Florida, with the following additions:

SA	Accidental in Florida and not part of the established biota.
SE	Exotic species established in Florida (may be native elsewhere in North America).
SX	Believed to be extirpated from state.

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