Resources Directory – Presentations and Publications

The Presentations and Publications tab provides the Lab’s latest talks and reports on land trusts and birds, including a presentation about how land trusts can best utilize eBird and the top ten tips for bird professionals interested in working with land trusts on bird conservation.

  • Saving Land Magazine: Help Birds

    Birds connect us to wild spaces and our natural world. They help to pollinate plants, disperse seeds and are bioindicators of ecosystem health. Birds bring people together and give them joy. But now, birds need our help.

  • Land Trust Bird Conservation Promotional Materials

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created a bookmark, power point slide, and press release to help land trusts promote and advertise the Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative website and its resources.

  • Wildlife Conservation and Private Protected Areas: The Discrepancy Between Land Trust Mission Statements and Their Perceptions

    A journal article in Environmental Management, studying the extent to which land trusts explicitly focus on wildlife conservation.  We found that land trust mission statements rarely mention wildlife while land trusts cite wildlife habitat as the most significant outcome of…

  • Top 10 Tips For Working with Land Trusts on Bird Conservation

    Written for a bird conservationist audience, this publication describes what land trusts are and spotlights ten tips that show the impacts and benefits land trusts have on birds and bird conservation efforts.

  • Top 10 Tips For Working with Land Trusts on Bird Conservation In the West

    Written for a bird conservationist audience, this publication describes what land trusts are and spotlights ten tips that show the impacts and benefits land trusts in the West have on birds and bird conservation efforts.

  • Land Trust Initiative: National Results Presentation

    A presentation on land trusts and bird conservation, including information and results from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Land Trust Initiative survey, recommendations, and next steps.

  • Land Trust Initiative: Western Results Presentation

    A presentation on land trusts and bird conservation, including information and results from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Land Trust Initiative survey from only those land trusts located in the West (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, TX, UT, WA, WY), recommendations, and next steps.

  • eBird: A Tool for Land Trusts Presentation

    A presentation on eBird, what it is, how land trusts can best utilize it, and an introduction to its various features such as eBird’s Location Explorer, HotSpot Explorer, Species Distribution Maps, and Data Download.

  • Land trusts and bird conservation: A needs assessment

    In 2014, we conducted an online survey of regional and local land trusts throughout the U.S. to learn more about land trusts’ interests and experiences with bird habitat conservation and related resources. This publication details the survey’s background, purpose, methods, results, summary of recommendations for land trusts, and next steps for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Land Trust Initiative.

  • Land trusts and bird conservation: A needs assessment Western states

    In 2014, we conducted an online survey of regional and local land trusts throughout the U.S. to learn more about land trusts’ interests and experiences with bird habitat conservation and related resources. This publication reports on the Western states’ results from the survey.