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San Quintín is a place where bird migration is celebrated, women support management actions, and young people are part of a nature photographers club. The San Quintín Bay Bird Festival provides many people with their first experience birding and learning about their environment. It is an opportunity to share a collaborative and memorable community experience by seeing the conservation work of Terra Peninsular firsthand.

Sonoran Joint Venture partner Terra Peninsular is the recipient of the 2019 PIF Group Stewardship Award. Based in Ensenada, Baja California, Terra Penninsular is dedicated to protecting the ecosystems and landscapes of the Baja California Peninsula, as well as in Sonora and Sinaloa states. Through direct land protection, adaptive management, bird monitoring and conservation planning, sustainable tourism, and community engagement, Terra Peninsular has worked to protect the unique birds and habitats of the region by working directly with local communities.

Many species of migratory birds travel thousands of kilometers between their breeding grounds in Canada and the United States and their wintering grounds across Latin America. During these movements they will experience different geographies, land cover types and threats. Among all migrants, those going as far as South America are declining most steeply. While the exact cause of declines for these species is not always clear, considerable evidence suggests that extensive loss of mid-elevation forest in their Andean wintering grounds is a primary contributor.

The IMBCR program is the second largest breeding bird monitoring program in North America, spanning 16 western states. The strength of the IMBCR program lies in its partnership with multiple state and federal agencies and nonprofit organizations. Monitoring resources are pooled among the partners in a spatially balanced, probabilistic framework, which promotes a more efficient use of resources and allows us to monitor larger spatial and temporal extents compared to individual monitoring efforts.

Through the Partners in Flight (PIF) Awards, PIF has been recognizing outstanding individuals and groups for their exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation since 1996. We are pleased to announce the seven 2019 PIF Award winners, who were recognized at the seventh North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC VII) on August 14, 2020, during PIF’s 30th anniversary.

Now available in the Conservation Resource Library:

In this article, Chuck Hunter offers his perspectives on the beginnings and evolution of the species vulnerability assessment developed by Partners in Flight.

This week, the 2020 North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC) was held virtually — the NAOC organizers and all of the presenters have done such a great job. Now it is time to celebrate. The Bird Band Jam has become a well-enjoyed tradition at ornithological conferences including NAOC. It is always so fun to see our […]

This year we celebrate a watershed in bird conservation: the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA). Building on the momentum created in the 1980’s that led to the 1990 launch of Partners in Flight, Congress passed the NMBCA in July of 2000. The goals of the NMBCA include perpetuating healthy bird populations, providing financial resources for bird conservation, and fostering international cooperation.

Now available in the Conservation Resource Library: In “The Scientific Roots of Partners in Flight,” Terry Rich explores the sequence of events and changing attitudes, beginning in 1966, that laid the scientific foundation for Partners in Flight’s launch…

Brad Jacobs was a kind and gentle soul, an educator, a naturalist, a mentor, and a friend. Saying that Brad Jacobs lived a life dedicated to bird conservation is an understatement. Brad’s skills at cultivating partnerships that inspired and connected people to birds led to impacts that are still very much present in Missouri, across the United States, and throughout the Western Hemisphere.