Thanks for Participating in the Birdwatcher Survey & Welcome to the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI)!

The bird conservation community is both diverse and complicated, with many different non-profit organizations, as well as state and federal agencies, working on bird conservation issues at local, state, regional, national, and international scales. The US NABCI Committee is a 28-member partnership of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other partnerships that work on national or international bird conservation. The US NABCI Committee brings together partners that work across state and country boundaries, and across taxonomic groups at a landscape scale to ensure that North American bird conservation is coordinated at a scale most relevant for the birds we work with.

Several of NABCI’s partners, such as the Human Dimensions Working Group of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, the National Flyway Council, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, partnered to develop this survey that explores birders’ preferences for different aspects of birdwatching experiences. NABCI’s Human Dimensions subcommittee also helped to guide and develop this birdwatcher survey.

While NABCI itself is a partnership of organizations and primarily serves bird conservation professionals, we hope you’ll explore the resources we have to offer. In particular, NABCI’s 2016 State of North America’s Birds Report provides an overview of the status of all 1,154 bird species native to continental North America and provides a call to action highlighting ways that citizens, businesses, and government can help support bird conservation. Also, our All-Bird Bulletin, a biannual newsletter that is now distributed as a blog, highlights bird conservation successes, needs, and programs – from informing on the power of citizen science in bird conservation to celebrating partnerships between land trusts and bird conservation groups. Subscribe to receive future All-Bird Bulletins!

In addition to NABCI’s resources, many of our NABCI partners engage birdwatchers or the general public through membership, journals, citizen science, or calls to action.  We encourage you to explore our partners’ websites and engage with their public programs.

Thanks again for participating in the survey!