All-Bird Bulletin

  • Pacific Golden-Plover in breeding plumage Mick Thompson © Creative Commons

Pacific Golden-Plovers Connect Alaska and Hawaiʻi

To help the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about common needs and themes, NABCI assembled the National Bird Conservation Priorities, which highlight 10 Priority Actions organized across 5 conservation themes. NABCI’s All-Bird Bulletin Blog will highlight projects and programs that work to achieve one or more of these Priority Actions. Today's blog, [...]

By |2021-04-20T23:13:20+00:00April 20th, 2021|Tags: , , |
  • Golden-winged Warbler Singing, by Frode Jacobsen.

Partnerships drive success for the Golden-winged Warbler initiative in West Virginia

To help the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about common needs and themes, NABCI assembled the National Bird Conservation Priorities, which highlight 10 Priority Actions organized across 5 conservation themes. NABCI’s All-Bird Bulletin Blog will highlight projects and programs that work to achieve one or more of these Priority Actions. Today’s blog [...]

  • Two ARUs models deployed side by side at the Onyx Ranch State Vehicle Recreation Area outside of Bakersfield, CA. Photo courtesy of Shane Emerson/California State Parks.

Remote birding: Using technology for fieldwork during COVID-19

To help the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about common needs and themes, NABCI assembled the National Bird Conservation Priorities, which highlight 10 Priority Actions organized across 5 conservation themes.  NABCI’s All-Bird Bulletin Blog will highlight projects and programs that work to achieve one or more of these Priority Actions.  Today’s blog highlights [...]

  • InterMountain West Bird Conservation Regions

Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions: Over Ten Years and Counting

To help the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about common needs and themes, NABCI assembled the National Bird Conservation Priorities, which highlight 10 Priority Actions organized across 5 conservation themes.  NABCI’s All-Bird Bulletin Blog will highlight projects and programs that work to achieve one or more of these Priority Actions.  Today’s blog highlights [...]

AZA Zoos as Partners in the Conservation of North American Migratory Songbirds

To help the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about common needs and themes, NABCI assembled the National Bird Conservation Priorities, which highlight 10 Priority Actions organized across 5 conservation themes.  In 2019, NABCI’s All-Bird Bulletin Blog will highlight projects and programs that work to achieve one or more of these Priority [...]

By |2019-02-11T15:35:09+00:00February 4th, 2019|Tags: , , |

Promoting a Unified Voice: NABCI’s National Bird Conservation Priorities

When I began my role as U.S. NABCI Coordinator, one of my new colleagues gleefully asked, “Have you seen the Bird Conservation Napkin?” Originally created at a happy hour and now infamous within a certain segment of bird conservation professionals, the Napkin was an early attempt to depict the bird conservation community and the many [...]

By |2018-11-07T15:26:37+00:00October 23rd, 2018|Tags: , , , |
  • screen grab from IWMM-AKN website

A Partnership for Enhancing Conservation of Nonbreeding Waterbirds

Integrated Waterbird Management and Monitoring Waterbirds that migrate long distances between wintering and breeding destinations present a complex challenge to wetland managers. These birds use a wide range of sites during their annual cycle. Therefore managers must carefully consider a number of questions: Which species should a manager focus on at a specific site? How [...]

By |2018-07-16T19:10:07+00:00July 16th, 2018|Tags: , , , |
  • U.S. map showing various colors representing groups of migrating birds.

Not Just for the Weatherman: Maps Forecast Bird Migration Using Weather Radar

Ed. Note: Three-day migration forecasts on BirdCast will resume on 1 August, just in time for the start of the fall migration season. Weather radar stations across the continental United States may have predicted "April showers" for some this spring, but for the first time, new maps used radar to forecast and track in near-real [...]

By |2018-07-16T19:02:26+00:00June 8th, 2018|Tags: , , , |
  • Wetland with shorebirds

Dynamic Conservation: Unconventional Ways to Help Birds

When I first began working on water and habitat issues in California a decade ago, it seemed counter-intuitive to me to seek partnerships with farmers and hunters, as I naively assumed we wouldn’t share values and priorities. Fortunately, I had some veteran California conservationists as mentors, and they taught me just how aligned our purposes [...]

By |2018-07-16T20:47:33+00:00May 16th, 2018|Tags: , , , , |
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