The Pacific Coast is recognized as an internationally critical wintering area for many migratory bird species, including:

• 95 percent of the Pacific brant population of the United States and Canada
• 90 percent of the trumpeter swans that breed in Alaska
• 60 percent of the lesser snow goose population that breeds on Wrangel Island, Russia
• the largest wintering concentrations of bald eagles in North America
• the entire Pacific populations of harlequin and oldsquaw long-tailed ducks
• others

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