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2007 Workshop

The 2007 Northeast Coordinated Bird Monitoring Workshop was held October 3-5 at the National Wildlife Visitor Center, Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, MD. (Agenda)

The goals of the workshop were to:

1) Introduce A Framework for Coordinated Bird Monitoring in the Northeast

2) Provide a forum for biologists and biometricians to apply framework principles, tools, and procedures toward the development of regionally coordinated survey designs

3) Exchange information on efforts to improve bird monitoring, with a focus on innovative solutions to characteristic problems

4) Develop a unified approach to optimizing the contributions of volunteer observers

Over 90 bird monitoring professionals attended a series of plenary presentations and participated in breakout discussions aimed at developing regionally coordinated monitoring strategies for a variety of bird groups. Click on the following links to download notes from these meetings.

Birds at sea and in coastal waters

Colonial waterbirds and beach-nesting shorebirds

Urban aerial insectivores

The workshop concluded with a Citizen Science Forum, featuring three panel discussions on how to optimize the contribution of volunteer observers in northeastern bird monitoring.

Contact the coordinator for more information on the workshop proceedings.

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.