Management Strategies for Reversing Declines in Landbirds of Conservation Concern on Military Installations

IBP is committed, through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program, to provide natural resource managers of military installations with effective tools for managing particular landbird populations. The main goals of this project are to reverse recent population declines of landbirds and allow managers to assess the effects of proposed land management on bird populations. Recently, IBP finished a landscape-scale ecological analysis of MAPS data (1994-2001) from 78 stations operating on U.S. Department of Defense installations under a cooperative agreement between IBP and the DoD. From these analyses we developed avian population management strategies from species-landscape models for ten species of conservation concern that breed on the installations. The species were identified from lists provided by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report entitled Birds of Conservation Concern 2002.

Executive Report

Click this link to view a PDF version of the executive report summarizing IBP's pioneering avian demographic/landscape work.

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