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Addition of 30 African Birds to List of Endangered And Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 8 / Thursday, January 12, 1995 / Rules and Regulations 2899 Issued on January 5, 1995. their listing is warranted but precluded submit information that might Ricardo Martinez, by other listing activity. contribute to development of a final Administrator. Subsequently, in a petition dated rule. Cables were sent to United States [FR Doc. 95±751 Filed 1±11±95; 8:45 am] April 30, 1991, and received by the embassies in countries within the ranges Service on May 6, 1991, the ICBP BILLING CODE 4910±59±P of the subject species, requesting new requested the addition of another 53 data and the comments of the species of foreign birds to the List of governments of those countries. None of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. In DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the 13 responses opposed the proposal; the Federal Register of December 16, substantive information provided has Fish and Wildlife Service 1991 (56 FR 65207±65208), the Service been added to the following discussion announced the finding that this petition (as ``in litt.''). There was one request for 50 CFR Part 17 had presented substantial information classifying the dappled mountain robin indicating that the requested action may RIN 1018±AB84 and Van Dam's vanga as endangered, be warranted. At that same time the rather than threatened as originally Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Service initiated a status review of these proposed. While such a measure will be and Plants; Addition of 30 African 53 birds, with the comment period given future consideration, immediately Birds to List of Endangered and lasting until March 16, 1992. available scientific data suggest that the Section 4(b)(3) of the Endangered Threatened Wildlife threatened category is appropriate. In Species Act of 1973, as amended in contrast, data received on the white- AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 1982 (Act), requires that, within 12 breasted guineafowl, originally Interior. months of receipt of a petition to list, proposed as endangered, indicate that a ACTION: Final rule. delist, or reclassify a species, a finding threatened classification may more be made as to whether the requested accurately describe its status, and such SUMMARY: The Service adds 30 kinds of action is warranted, not warranted, or is now applied. birds, found in Africa and on associated warranted but precluded by other listing islands, to the List of Endangered and activity. In the case of the 1991 ICBP Summary of Factors Affecting the Threatened Wildlife. All have restricted petition, available information supports Species distributions and are threatened by listing of all 53 species. With respect to Section 4(a)(1) of the Endangered habitat destruction, human hunting, 15 of these speciesÐthose occurring in Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and predation by introduced animals, and Africa and Madagascar and on regulations (50 CFR Part 424) various other factors. All were subjects associated islands of the Atlantic and promulgated to implement the listing of petitions from the International Indian OceansÐan ICBP Red Data Book provisions of the Act set forth the Council for Bird Preservation submitted (Collar and Stuart 1985) provides procedures for adding species to the in 1980 and 1991. This rule implements detailed status data. This same source Federal Lists. A species may be the protection of the Endangered provides data supporting the listing of determined to be endangered or Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), 13 of the African birds covered by the threatened due to one or more of the for these birds. 1980 ICBP petition, and the Service also possesses sufficient data to support the following five factors described in EFFECTIVE DATE: February 13, 1995. Section 4(a)(1): (A) The present or ADDRESSES: The complete file for this listing of the other 2 African birds. With respect to the other birds included in threatened destruction, modification, or rule is available for public inspection, curtailment of its habitat or range; (B) by appointment, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 the two petitions, data are available from several sources, some of which are overutilization for commercial, p.m., Monday through Friday, in Room recreational, scientific, or educational 750, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, unpublished. Compilation of these data is in progress, and a listing proposal purposes; (C) disease or predation; (D) Arlington, Virginia 22203. Comments the inadequacy of existing regulatory may be sent to the Chief, Office of will be completed as soon as allowed by the Service's other listing mechanisms; and (E) other natural or Scientific Authority; Mail Stop: manmade factors affecting its continued Arlington Square, Room 725; U.S. Fish responsibilities. Considering the above, the Service existence. The application of these and Wildlife Service; Washington, D.C. factors to the 30 African species named 20240. made the finding that the action requested by the ICBP 1980 and 1991 below is shown by the appropriate letter FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. petitions, with respect to the 30 African in parentheses (information from Collar Charles W. Dane, Chief, Office of birds named below in the ``Summary of and Andrew 1988, Collar and Stuart Scientific Authority (phone 703±358± Factors Affecting the Species,'' is 1985, and Grzimek 1975, unless 1708; FAX 703±358±2276). warranted, and that the action requested otherwise noted). Also indicated is the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: by the 1991 petition, with respect to the date of the petition covering each 38 remaining species covered therein, is species, the classification given in Background warranted but precluded by other listing pertinent ICBP Red Data Books, and the In a petition of November 24, 1980, to activity. That finding was incorporated U.S. classification that now will apply. the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published together with a proposal Amsterdam albatross (Diomedia (Service), the International Council for in the Federal Register of March 28, amsterdamensis).Ð1991 petition, ICBP Bird Preservation (ICBP)Ðnow known 1994 (59 FR 14496±14502), to add the endangered, U.S. endangered; a large as Bird Life InternationalÐrequested the 30 birds named below to the List of sea bird of the family Diomedeidae; addition of 79 kinds of birds to the U.S. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. known to breed only on Amsterdam List of Endangered and Threatened Island, a French possession in the Wildlife. Of that number, 58 occurred Summary of Comments and southern Indian Ocean. Destruction of entirely outside of the United States and Recommendations nesting habitat by fires and introduced its territories. Of those foreign birds, 6 In the proposed rule of March 28, cattle (A) and predation by introduced have now been listed and the rest have 1994, and associated notifications, all rats and cats (C) have reduced numbers been covered by petition findings that interested parties were requested to drastically. On the average only five 2900 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 8 / Thursday, January 12, 1995 / Rules and Regulations pairs were known to breed each year Madagascar sea eagle (Haliaeetus evidently has adapted better to all during the early 1980s. vociferoides).Ð1980 petition, ICBP habitats except mature forest (E). Since Thyolo alethe (Alethe choloensis).Ð endangered, U.S. endangered; a fish- the latter habitat has been largely 1991 petition, ICBP endangered, U.S. hunting species of the family destroyed by human activity, the range endangered; a small, ground-dwelling Accipitridae, related to and somewhat of F. flavicans has been greatly reduced bird of the family Muscicapidae, related smaller than the American bald eagle; (A). In addition, the species is to the Old World robins and thrushes; confined to the rivers, shorelines, and threatened by predation from known only from 13 small patches of offshore islands of the west coast of introduced rats (C) and by the effects of submontane evergreen forest in central to northern Madagascar. Its cyclones (E). southern Malawi and from 2 such areas numbers have dropped sharply since Djibouti francolin (Francolinus in northern Mozambique. Suitable the last century, with only 96 ochropectus).Ð1991 petition, ICBP habitat already has been largely individuals being counted during the endangered, U.S. endangered; a ground- destroyed through human clearing and mid-1980s. Although reasons for the dwelling, partridgelike bird of the encroachment and remaining sites are at decline are unclear, hunting and nest family Phasianidae; restricted to risk of destruction (A). About 1,500 destruction by people (B) are thought to highland forest in the country of pairs are estimated to survive. be partly responsible. Djibouti in northeastern Africa. Its Uluguru bush-shrike (Malaconotus Madagascar serpent eagle (Eutriorchis restricted habitat is rapidly being alius).Ð1980 petition, ICBP rare, U.S. astur).Ð1980 petition, ICBP destroyed by overgrazing, clearing, and threatened; a small predatory bird of the endangered, U.S. endangered; a raptor other human activity (A). The total family Laniidae, resembling the true of the family Accipitridae, more closely population is thought to have declined shrikes in structure but utilizing more related to the harrier hawks than to most from over 5,000 birds in 1978 to fewer densely vegetated habitat and dwelling other eagles; until recently, known only than 1,000 today (Dr. Simon D. Dowell, in the forest canopy; known only from from 11 specimens collected over 50 Chairman, ICBP Partridge, Quail and the Uluguru Mountains in central years ago in the eastern forests of Francolin Specialist Group, in litt.). Madagascar. In 1988 an individual was Alaotra grebe (Tachybaptus Tanzania. Because of its dense forest observed and in 1990 a dead specimen rufolavatus).Ð1991 petition, ICBP habitat and evident low numbers, this was recovered, both in northeastern endangered, U.S endangered; a small bird has been difficult to locate and Madagascar (Raxworthy and Colston diving bird of the family Podicipedidae; little is known of its status.
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