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Chestnut-collared Longspur
Illustrations by David Allen Sibley from The National Audubon Society: The Sibley Guide to Birds published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. Copyright © 2000 by Chanticleer Press and David Allen Sibley. No illustrations may be copied, reproduced, or reused without the express written permission of the copyright holders.

Status: There is some indication of shrinking of its historic breeding range and possible long-term population decline.

Habitat/Range: Uses level to rolling mixed-grass and shortgrass uplands and moist lowlands in drier regions. Breeds in south-central Canada, northeastern Colorado, western Kansas, north-central Nebraska and western Minnesota. Non-breeding range includes northern Arizona, eastern Colorado, central Kansas south to northern Mexico.

Threats: Habitat has been eliminated by land cultivation.

Restoration Potential: Protecting open prairie from plowing and cultivation is essential to restoration.

Places We Are Protecting:

  • Saltillo Grasslands Protected Area, Mexico
  • Bohart Ranch/ Chico Basin, Colorado
  • Western High Plains/ Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska
  • Matador Ranch, Montana
  • Cherry Ranch/ Sioux Prairie, Nebraska
  • Missouri Coteau, Canada
  • Bitter Creek, Montana/ Grasslands National Park, Canada

Learn More:
View a species management abstract for this bird.

Illustrations by David Allen Sibley from The National Audubon Society: The Sibley Guide to Birds published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. Copyright © 2000 by Chanticleer Press and David Allen Sibley. No illustrations may be copied, reproduced, or reused without the express written permission of the copyright holders.