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A primary goal of Florida's Wildlife Legacy Initiative is to fill information gaps on the life history, status, trend, population and management needs for Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN). This list includes mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish (freshwater and marine) and invertebrates (marine, freshwater and terrestrial). To prioritize our efforts, we are focusing on those SGCN having a low or unknown population size (status), and a declining or unknown population trend. This includes 631 species!

Filling all of these data gaps is an enormous task that is too big for FWC to undertake alone. In partnership with several other conservation agencies and organizations, we are making significant progress towards filling information gaps for numerous groups of species. Most of these projects address multiple SGCN.

For more information on FWLI data gaps, please contact the Grants Coordinator, Laura Morse.

The following current and recent projects are examples of the work being done by a variety of conservation partners to fill information gaps:

• Multiple responses of Wood Storks and other wading birds to wetland restoration
• Shore-dependent Bird Monitoring Corps
• Determination and Georeferencing of Locality Coordinates for Museum and Literature Records for Inclusion in an Atlas of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida
• Status, Distribution, and Biology of Florida's Rare Invertebrates
• Statewide Assessment of the Current Status and Distribution of FNAI's Tracked Butterfly Species on Florida's Conservation Lands
• Freshwater Mussels of Florida
• Florida Freshwater and Tidal Stream Fish Distribution Mapping
• Fish assemblages in tidal and non-tidal freshwater tributaries of the Indian River Lagoon
• Biodiversity links to habitat in Florida west coast waters
• Assessing the importance of horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) eggs in the diets of migrating red knots (Calidris canutus rufa) and sanderlings (Calidris alba) during refueling stops on selected Florida Beaches
• Applied management practices to increase nesting success and productivity of Swallow-tailed Kites