What is the Waterbird Conservation for the Americas initiative?
A. The Waterbird Conservation for the Americas initiative (Waterbirds initiative) is an independent, international, broad-based, and voluntary partnership created to link the work of individuals and institutions having interest and responsibility for conservation of waterbirds and their habitats in the Americas. Waterbirds are species that are dependent on aquatic habitats to complete portions of their life cycles. Waterbirds covered by this initiative include 209 species known commonly as seabirds, coastal waterbirds, wading birds, and marshbirds. Other kinds of birds relying on aquatic habitats (for example, shorebirds, waterfowl, raptors, and many songbirds) are the focus of other initiatives. B. The vision of Waterbird Conservation for the Americas is to sustain or restore the distribution, diversity, and abundance of populations and habitats of breeding, migratory, and nonbreeding waterbirds throughout the lands and waters of North and South America, Central America, and the Carib
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