Category Archives: HCP-proposed-avoidance-species

Monarch Butterfly

Monarch Butterfly The Monarch butterfly is a large brightly colored North American native that is distributed over six continents around the globe along with the milkweed plants on which it feeds. Two populations of Monarchs perform long-distance migrations from the northern United States to overwintering grounds in Baja California and Mexico. Standardized surveys of the…

Golden-cheeked Warbler

Golden-cheeked Warbler The Golden-cheeked Warbler is a migratory songbird that spends its breeding season from March to June on the Edwards Plateau of central Texas.  The bird was listed as endangered under the ESA in 1990.  The USFWS completed a five-year status review of the species in 2014, which found that the endangered status was…