The North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) presented the 2022 David Pashley Award to Todd Fearer during the Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture management board meeting in Blacksburg, Virginia on 28 November 2023. The David Pashley Award was created by the U.S. NABCI Committee to memorialize and honor one of its founding members, Dr. David Pashley, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 Actions. Today’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NABCI Coordinator Judith Scarl recently announced the hiring of Jessica Barnes as the new National Bird Conservation Social Science Coordinator. "I am excited to welcome Dr. Jessica Barnes, our new National Bird Conservation Social Science Coordinator and NABCI Human Dimensions Subcommittee Co-Chair!," Scarl said in a statement. "Jessica is filling the role that Ashley Gramza [...]
The bird conservation community is complicated, with local, state, regional, national, and international partners representing many different interests across bird conservation. NABCI’s unified list, which finds areas of consensus across all bird conservation groups, ensures that consistent, cross-cutting needs are communicated, and provides emphasis to priorities that the broader community supports. A short, concise list [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
