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Do you know someone who has made exceptional contributions to landbird conservation? Nominate an individual or group for a Partners in Flight Award!

Partners in Flight Awards recognize exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation in the Americas. Nominees will be considered who have significantly furthered the mission of Partners in Flight and its goal of protecting priority migratory and resident landbirds and their habitats. To be eligible, projects or activities must have been initiated after 1990. Nominees will be evaluated in five award categories: Leadership, Investigations, Public Awareness, Stewardship, and the David N. Pashley Lifetime Achievement Award.

The future of birds and the future of our communities are deeply intertwined, and it will take all of us to ensure they can thrive in a changing world. Join the team behind the 2022 State of the Birds Report—the first since the landmark study in 2019 showed the loss of 3 billion birds in the U.S. and Canada in the past 50 years—to learn about bird conservation successes, species in need of urgent attention, and how communities demonstrate that bird conservation is an incredible vehicle for environmental justice.

Over the three years since the EWG was formed, it has strived to be a unifying and organizing force for bird conservation in eastern North America, especially for broad-ranging issues spanning the borders and boundaries of our existing organizations, partnerships, and jurisdictions. Our three focal teams engage multiple partners and work toward full annual cycle conservation, science delivery, […]

As part of the PIF Visioning Retreat in February 2022, Carol Beidleman provided a summary from the PIF Retrospective Team, looking to the past to inform the future. This Team, with Carol Beidleman as lead, included Carol Beardmore, Geoff Geupel, and John Alexander. Through meetings in 2020 and 2021, the group examined both the successes and challenges of PIF’s first 30 years.

For our 30th anniversary, the Partners in Flight Steering Committee launched a long and short-term visioning exercise to consider obstacles and opportunities for bird conservation. Our target was to identify how the steering committee can ensure that Partners in Flight continues as a driving force in bird conservation into the future.

UPDATE: The Spring 2020 meeting has been moved to a virtual meeting!  Day 1 (April 21) and Day 2 (April 23) connection info are below: ZOOM INFO for PIF WWG April 21 session on MOTUS Topic: PIF WWG MOTUS Session Time: Apr 21, 2020 11:50 AM Vancouver Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88957372330?pwd=ejcrL3V6eERhelExT2VUUUt6QXBkZz09 Meeting ID: 889 5737 […]

The Spring 2019 PIF WWG meeting will be held April 16-18 in Ft. Collins, CO. Most folks will fly into Denver and drive or get a shuttle to Ft. Collins, it is an hour or so drive. We will be staying at the Elizabeth Hotel at the gvt. rate of $116.00/night. Online registration: Registration cost […]

We’re looking forward to a productive, engaging meeting! Register for the meeting online HERE. Registration is $30/day, or $80 for the entire meeting (2 ½ days). Please register in advance to help with logistical planning. Most folks will fly into Portland and drive an hour or so to Hood River. We will be staying at […]

PIF VI will be in San Jose Costa Rica 30 October to 3 November 2017. The conference now has a web site for details and registion: http://pifconference.com/  

Partners in Flight (PIF) Awards recognize exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation in the Americas.

The Eastern Working Group of Partners in Flight invites you to the: 2023 EWG Confluence January 10-12, 2023 Nashville, TN   Over the three years since the EWG was formed, it has strived to be a unifying and organizing force for bird conservation in eastern North America, especially for broad-ranging issues spanning the borders and […]

Partners in Flight (PIF) Awards recognize exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation in the Americas.

Agendas We are meeting virtually starting at 8:30 am (Pacific Time) for every meeting, but with variable end times, none later than 1:00 pm.  Check agendas for more information — links below.     March 28th   –   New approaches and collaborations for Western Forest Conservation (agenda) April 6th   –   Conservation Without Borders: Sharing knowledge and collaborative […]

Partners in Flight (PIF) Awards recognize exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation in the Americas.

Conservation plan for landbirds in Alaska, multi-authored volume designed and written by members of Boreal Partners in Flight, under the auspices of the international Partners in Flight cooperative program.

For our 30th anniversary, the Partners in Flight Steering Committee launched a long and short-term visioning exercise to consider obstacles and opportunities for bird conservation.  Our target was to identify how the steering committee can ensure that Partners in Flight continues as a driving force in bird conservation into the future.

Partners in Flight (PIF) Awards recognize exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation in the Americas in the categories of Leadership, Investigations, Public Awareness, Stewardship, and the David N. Pashley Lifetime Achievement Award. This slideshow was presented by PIF Coordinator Bob Ford during the 2020 North American Ornithological Conference.

Forests for the Birds Webinar Series conclusion – Building on the previous 11 webinars in this series, Bill Uihlein explored the continued rapid evolution of conservation that is shaping the emergence of new Ways of Working influenced by the past, current, and futureset of living relationships and the collective pattern of behaviors working towards shared goals.

John Alexander with the Klamath Bird Observatory discusses partnerships for monitoring the success of bird conservation efforts and using birds as indicators of habitat suitability and conservation success. John will show how managing for a suite of bird species provides results that can be measured using the response of focal species to habitat management.

Conserving birds in Eastern North America through coordinated, collaborative partnerships delivering bird habitat and population management.

Accomplishing bird conservation, with international partners, across the west.

Advancing scientific concepts and approaches for landbird conservation.

Conserving landbirds in Northeastern North America through coordinated, collaborative partnerships delivering bird habitat and population management.

Sustaining networks to facilitate bird conservation delivery in the Midwest.