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.
