Level I priority:

• Black Swift
• Whooping Crane
• Least Tern
• Sharp-tailed Grouse

Level II priority:

• Chestnut-collared Longspur
• Greater Sage-Grouse
• Piping Plover
• Mountain Plover
• Harlequin Duck
• Caspian Tern
• Black Rosy-Finch
• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
• Lewis’s Woodpecker
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Lever III Priority:

• Northern Goshawk
• Clark’s Grebe
• LeConte’s Sparrow
• Nelson’s Sparrow
• Sprague’s Pipit
• Golden Eagle
• Great Blue Heron
• Sagebrush Sparrow
• Burrowing Owl
• American Bittern
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Veery
• Baird’s Sparrow
• Brown Creeper
• Black Tern
• Sedge Wren
• Evening Grosbeak
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow Rail
• Trumpeter Swan
• Bobolink
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Alder Flycatcher
• Common Loon
• Pinyon Jay
• Cassin’s Finch
• Black-necked Stilt
• Varied Thrush
• White-tailed Ptarmigan
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Franklin’s Gull
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Clark’s Nutcracker
• Long-billed Curlew
• Black-crowned Night-heron
• Sage Thrasher
• American White Pelican
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• Green-tailed Towhee
• White-faced Ibis
• Horned Grebe
• Boreal Chickadee
• Flammulated Owl
• Thick-billed Longspur
• Brewer’s Sparrow
• Forster’s Tern
• Great Gray Owl
• Northern Hawk Owl
• Pacific Wren

Species recently removed from MT's SOC list

• Peregrine Falcon – 2022
• Bald Eagle – 2012
• Grasshopper Sparrow – 2012
• American Three-toed Woodpecker – 2009
• Baltimore Oriole – 2009
• Barn Owl – 2009
• Black-and-white Warbler – 2009
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird – 2009
• Cassin’s Kingbird – 2009
• Dickcissel – 2009
• Eastern Bluebird – 2009
• Lark Bunting – 2009
• Northern Hawk Owl – 2009
• Olive-sided Flycatcher – 2009
• Orchard Oriole – 2009
• Williamson’s Sapsucker – 2009
• Northern Goshawk – 2008

Species of Greatest Inventory Need:

• Boreal Owl
• Barrow’s Owl
• Chimney Swift
• Yellow-billed cuckoo
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Black Swift
• White-tailed Ptarmigan
• Gray-crowned Rosy-finch
• Hooded Merganser
• Western Screech-Owl
• Common Poorwill
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird
• Great Gray Owl
• Northern Hawk Owl

BirdLife International Threatened:

• Whooping Crane

BirdLife International Vulnerable:

• Piping Plover
• Mountain Plover
• Pinyon Jay
• Sprague’s Pipit
• Rusty Blackbird

BirdLife International Near Threatened:

• Greater Sage-Grouse
• Long-billed Curlew
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Chestnut-collared Longspur
• Brewer’s Sparrow
• Cassin’s Finch.

For information contact Amy Seaman, [email protected]