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In a Guest Editorial for Bird Watcher’s Digest, Partners in Flight (PIF) Coordinator Bob Ford and author Paul J. Baicich describe how the bird conservation community might navigate a novel, impactful way forward in the updraft of an emerging “new normal.” Ford and Baicich extract wisdom and lessons learned from a tumultuous year when a “global pandemic, severe economic distress, calls for social justice, and deepening political divisions” galvanized changes in social behavior and in how and when people interact with birds. The article presents actions the bird conservation community can take to be “deliberate in recrafting” a long-lasting new normal.

Through the Partners in Flight Awards, PIF has been recognizing outstanding individuals and groups for their exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation since 1996. The 2020 PIF Awards, sponsored by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, were presented on March 11, 2021 at the 86th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. The 2020 PIF Awards highlight exceptional talent and commitment to conservation. Click to learn more and to watch the 2020 PIF Awards Presentation.

People have come to the Partners in Flight network through different routes from different backgrounds. For PIF’s 30th anniversary year, we asked our partners to share their stories of becoming involved in PIF, and how their involvement has been beneficial. Please enjoy these rich Testimonials.

Ken Rosenberg, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Just as migration experts from 6 countries are gathering this week for a symposium at the PIF VI conference in San José, Costa Rica, a major review of migration stopover and bottlenecks in the Neotropics was published this week in the journal Bird Conservation International. The review article, authored […]

The Partners in Flight Steering Committee recently met at the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City to discuss priority actions moving forward into the fall and new year.  Priority actions were developed around a variety of topics to deliver the 2016 Landbird Conservation Plan for conservation action.  Topics included management for PIF Watch List species on federal public lands, improved integration of PIF objectives with Migratory Bird Joint Ventures and Flyways, and full annual cycle conservation.

With the passing of the one-year anniversary of the 2016 Landbird Conservation Plan, the PIF network can claim several bold steps forward that deliver the plan for on the ground actions that are good for birds. 

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