Priority Species
The first step in implementing SHC is determining priority species and developing population objectives for those species. This gives us a goal and a way of ultimately knowing how much habitat is enough. The IWJV, through its Science Teams, has established priority species from which to base our planning. Priority species lists are displayed on each Science Team web link, and are tiered mainly from the FWS Birds of Management Concern (BMC) species that occur within the Intermountain West.
| American Avocet | Common Merganser | Mallard | Solitary Sandpiper |
| American Coot | Common Yellowthroat | Marbled Godwit | Sora |
| American Golden-Plover | Costa's Hummingbird | Mourning Dove | Spotted Owl |
| American Wigeon | Crissal Thrasher | Northern Goshawk | Steller's Jay |
| Arizona Woodpecker | Ferruginous Hawk | Northern Harrier | Stilt Sandpiper |
| Bald Eagle | Flammulated Owl | Northern Pintail | SW Willow Flycatcher |
| Band-tailed Pigeon | Gadwall | Northern Shoveler | Swainson's Hawk |
| Barrow's Goldeneye | Golden Eagle | Olive Warbler | Trumpeter Swan |
| Bell's Vireo | Grace's Warbler | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Tundra Swan |
| Bendire's Thrasher | Grasshopper Sparrow | Peregrine Falcon | Upland Sandpiper |
| Black Swift | Gray Vireo | Pinyon Jay | Virginia Rail |
| Black-chinned Sparrow | Greater Scaup | Prairie Falcon | Virginia's Warbler |
| Black-throated Gray Warbler | Gr. White-fronted Goose | Red-breasted Merganser | Western Scrub-Jay |
| Blue-winged Teal | Greater Yellowlegs | Redhead | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Bobolink | Green-winged Teal | Red-naped Sapsucker | White-headed Woodpecker |
| Brewer's Sparrow | Harlequin Duck | Ring-necked Duck | White-winged Dove |
| Bufflehead | Hooded Merganser | Ross's Goose | Williamson's Sapsucker |
| Burrowing Owl | Hooded Oriole | Ruddy Duck | Wilson's Phalarope |
| California Condor | Horned Lark | Rufous Hummingbird | Wilson's Snipe |
| California Towhee (Inyo) | Lawrence's Goldfinch | Sage Sparrow | Wood Duck |
| Canada Goose | Le Conte's Thrasher | Sanderling | Yellow Warbler |
| Canvasback | Lesser Scaup | Sandhill Crane | Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
| Cassin's Sparrow | Lewis's Woodpecker | Short-eared Owl | |
| Cinnamon Teal | Loggerhead Shrike | Snow Goose | |
| Common Goldeneye | Long-billed Curlew | Snowy Plover | |