NORTH AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVATION INITIATIVE
          U.S. NABCI Committee Action Plan Update - September 2005
          NABCI "The All-Bird Bulletin"

• North American Waterfowl Management Plan
  • Playa Lakes Joint Venture
  • Prairie Pothole Joint Venture
  • Rainwater Basin Joint Venture
  • Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Region Joint Venture
• Partners in Flight
  • PIF Species Assessment Database version 2005
  • Proceedings of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference
  • Dissected Till Plains (Physiographic Region 32)
  • Central Mixed-Grass Prairie (Physiographic Region 34)
  • Central Shortgrass Prairie (Physiographic Region 36)
  • West River (Physiographic Region 38)
• United States Shorebird Conservation Plan
  • 2004 update
• North American Waterbird Conservation Plan
• Northern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
• Bird Conservation Regions
• Bird Conservation Directory

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION

• New! State Wildlife Action Plans
  This website provides detailed information on the state wildlife action plans and partnerships forming to ensure their implementation.
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
• Interactive Guide to Birds of Nebraska
• Avibase - The World Bird Database
• ArcView Range Maps for Birds of the Western Hemisphere
  • "The data presented here represents a major product of this collaboration [a consortium of conservation organizations] a digital map library of the distributions of the birds of the Western Hemisphere, covering 4,336 species. The maps are annotated to indicate sources, migratory status, historic versus current ranges, origin (native or introduced) and taxonomic decisions. The migratory status indications are particularly detailed, distinguishing where birds are permanent residents, breeding residents, non-breeding residents, or passage migrants. These maps, provided in ArcView format, are presented as a free resource for conservationists, researchers, and the general public."
     
• The Institute for Bird Populations
  • NBII/MAPS AVIAN DEMOGRAPHICS QUERY INTERFACE FOR MAPS DATA
    •   The Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program was created by The Institute for Bird Populations in 1989 to assess and monitor the vital rates and population dynamics of over 120 species of North American landbirds in order to provide critical conservation and management information on their populations. The MAPS Program utilizes constant-effort mist netting and banding at a continent-wide network of monitoring stations staffed by both professional biologists and highly trained volunteers.
        The Institute for Bird Populations has just completed a project with the USGS National Biological Information infrastructure's (NBII) Bird Conservation Node to make available some of the basic data generated by the MAPS program. These data include apparent survival rate estimates from Cormack-Jolly-Seber models, annual changes in the numbers of young and adults captured, indices of reproductive success, and breeding status lists for individual MAPS stations.
       
•  Regional Bird Conservation Planning: Birds and Land Uses
  USGS Develops Interactive Bird Conservation Web Site. USGS has developed an interactive map that allows you to visualize and download land use information and summarize bird counts obtained by the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) for Federal lands, counties, states, and other geographic divisions. The web site will be especially useful for state and regional bird conservation planners because you can view and summarize
  land cover and bird information for large or small geographic areas. For example, you can select a specific location and obtain a list of bird species observed on BBS routes adjacent to that location. A Help section provides step-by-step examples for novice geographic information system users. USGS Develops Models and Maps that Predict the Abundance of Bird Species. USGS has developed statistical models for predicting and mapping bird habitat associations across entire ecoregions. These models are based on North American Breeding Bird Survey data and describe the complex set of environmental conditions that support populations of a particular species. We created maps that depict where a species is likely to be found within a state or region and how many individuals are likely to be there. Resource managers can use the models and maps to identify and prioritize habitats for future monitoring and conservation actions. A web site describing the models is available here.
   
• Landbird Migration Monitoring Network of the Americas
• Western Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN)
  • The primary goal of the web site is to build communications capacity to protect a vital chain of international ecosystems. A Spanish language version of the site is under development. In addition to updated information about WHSRN and shorebirds, the site provides new opportunities for WHSRN Sites to tell their stories. Ten sites agreed to serve as pilot-sites for these opportunities. The website also features interactive Google Maps to browse satellite images of the network’s 64 sites.
     
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Bird Habitat Conservation
  • Endangered Species
  • Federal Duck Stamp
  • Migratory Bird Management
  • National Wildlife Refuge System

OTHER BIRD PARTNERSHIPS