Restoring North America's Migratory Birds

Saving Birds and Habitat through Cooperative Conservation

In December, 2006 the White House invited the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to recommend how the federal government could help restore habitats and populations of declining migratory birds. The Lab of Ornithology convened a group of leaders in the bird conservation community and together prepared a report, "Restoring North America's Migratory Birds." This report, delivered to the White House in late January 2007, recommended six key actions by which the U.S. government could help migratory birds and their habitats.

On October 20, 2007, President Bush outlined a national strategy for bird conservation, which included many of the recommendations in the team's report and also emphasized an important new public-private initiative to fund conservation and education in our National Parks. To watch President Bush's address on video or to read the transcript, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071020-2.html.

To see the original report in its entirety, please download the pdf of the document, Restoring North America's Migratory Birds: Saving Birds and Habitat through Cooperative Conservation. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology gratefully acknowledges the excellent, collaborative process by which this report was assembled. More important, we encourage the extraordinary community of individuals, organizations, and institutions now devoted to bird conservation to work cooperatively and strenuously to ensure that these important actions are implemented.

Organizations contributing to the January 2007 White House report: American Bird Conservancy, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, North American Bird Conservation Initiative, PRBO Conservation Science, Partners in Flight.

Press release, October 23, 2007: "President Bush Announces National Strategy for Migratory Bird Conservation"