Includes bibliographical references and index.

The importance of bird habitat -- What can be done to help birds -- Species accounts of birds in trouble -- Trumpeter swan -- Gunnison sage-grouse and Greater sage-grouse -- Greater prairie-chicken and Lesser prairie-chicken -- Yellow-billed loon -- Clark's grebe -- Black-capped petrel and Bermuda petrel -- Ashy storm-petrel -- Reddish egret -- Ferruginous hawk -- Yellow rail and black rail -- Whooping crane -- Snowy plover and Piping plover -- Mountain plover -- Wandering tattler -- Bristle-thighed curlew -- Long-billed curlew -- Hudsonian godwit -- Red knot -- Buff-breasted sandpiper -- Kittlitz's murrelet, Xantus's murrelet (now Scripps's murrelet and Guadalupe murrelet) and Craveri's murrelet -- Ivory gull -- Flammulated owl -- Spotted owl -- Red-cockaded woodpecker -- Red-crowned parrot -- Black-capped vireo -- Florida scrub-jay and Island scrub-jay -- California gnatcatcher -- Bicknell's thrush -- McKay's bunting -- Colima warbler -- Kirtland's warbler -- Cerulean warbler -- Golden-cheeked warbler -- Brown-capped rosy-finch and Black rosy-finch -- Helping everyday birds -- Appendix 1. Species population estimates -- Appendix 2. Status of birds in trouble -- Appendix 3. Status of birds under the Endangered Species Act.

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