For the Birds

Birds are key to wild lands diversity.  We need to figure out how to protect and grow their populations.

"If we're going to bring back the birds, we need to know what those birds really need," says Jeff Larkin, American Bird Conservancy's Eastern Forest Habitat Coordinator and a professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), one of the institutions participating in the project. ABC partners with IUP in this endeavor.

"Where do they go? How do breeding and wintering populations connect? Where are important migratory stopover areas?"

After synthesizing their findings, scientists can then provide on-the-ground partners with management guidelines or conservation recommendations that will help the birds most.