Land Trusts Using eBird
Land trusts from all over the country are utilizing eBird for activities such as community engagement, bird monitoring, community science, assessment and evaluation of land management, land prioritization, and decision making across their service areas. This powerful tool can help conservation groups expand their reach to additional audiences, inform stewardship planning, and build organizational capacity through birds. Click the button on the left to explore an interactive map of how land trusts are using eBird across the country.
Engaging CommunityeBird has the potential to connect community members with land trust properties and conservation projects, which can help mobilize the community to both care for and protect the landscape and the wildlife that inhabits it.
- Monitoring and Participatory Science
Use eBird to establish a monitoring protocol for staff and volunteers. Train a group of participatory scientists in eBird to increase monitoring capacity in your service area.
- Assessing and Evaluating Management
eBird can serve as a tool for land trusts to assess pre- and post-habitat management activities by monitoring which birds are present or not present at a site, and to evaluate success of your management or restoration.
- Land Prioritization
Using eBird data can be a great way to prioritize the use of limited conservation dollars on the landscape. Land trusts can overlay eBird data with other strategic conservation mapping layers to discover which parcels have the highest stewardship potential and determine what species are important on land trust holdings.
- Building Partnerships and Capacity
Bird conservation projects can help land trusts build new partnerships, open the door to new sources of conservation funds, and connect with other organizations who have experience with analyzing data, monitoring avian populations, and implementing habitat improvement practices.
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