Tools and Resources

We offer these tools and resources to support monitoring and conservation of northeastern birds.

A virtual library of bird monitoring publications contains downloadable plans, technical reports, and peer-reviewed scientific papers. This month's featured title is Opportunities for Improving Avian Monitoring (US NABCI Monitoring Subcommittee 2007).

Bicknell's Thrush The Avian Knowledge Network, is a centralized data management system featuring innovative tools for the display and analysis of bird monitoring results. AKN offers partners free use of a persistent data archive, the opportunity to pool information among agencies and institutions, and the security of owner-specified access privileges.

The Survey Design and Implementation Fund provides one-year grants ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 in support of efforts to strengthen and align bird monitoring in the Northeast.

Atlantic Puffin The draft Register of Northeast Bird Monitoring Programs (MS Excel) catalogs basic information on over 400 monitoring initiatives in the region. To submit additions or corrections, please contact the Coordinator.

State wildlife action plans identify management issues and Species of Greatest Conservation Need, providing justification and direction to bird monitoring activities in the Northeast.

Featured link: the Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Spreadsheet Project, which instructs quantitative methods for analyzing wildlife population dynamics.

Miscellaneous links lead to a wealth of additional bird monitoring and conservation information.

Photos: top - Bicknell's Thrush by Brant Ryder; middle - Atlantic Puffin by USFWS

The Northeast Coordinated Bird Monitoring partnership is administered by American Bird Conservancy in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The project was developed by Northeast Partners In Flight, Northeast Shorebird Conservation Plan and Mid-Atlantic/New England/Maritimes Waterbird Conservation Plan, in concert with the US North American Bird Conservation Initiative's Monitoring Subcommittee. It is made possible by a Multistate Conservation Grant awarded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, with assistance from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. We gratefully acknowledge the Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration Programs of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which funds the Multistate Conservation Program.