We are proud to help showcase various successful bird conservation stories from our land trust partners across the U.S.
Through these stories, numerous land trusts share their experiences conserving both lands and birds and how to get started with these efforts.
To learn more about how land trusts can benefit from bird conservation, explore the interactive map of projects across the country, visit the StoryMap showcasing the efforts of an all-volunteer land trust on Dauphin Island, or scroll down to many other stories that demonstrate how organizations have used bird conservation resources successfully in the grid below.
Through a series of small grant projects and partnerships with the Cornell Lab, Kent Land Trust has become more science focused, integrating birds and bird data in everyday activities.
The Grassland Bird Collaboration, launched by Willistown Conservation Trust in 2022, was supported by small grants in 2023 and 2024 to support its efforts across working farmland and preserved open spaces in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Using eBird data as a foundation, Tufts University students mapped Bobolink sightings and combined them with farm production records to identify optimal fields for bird-friendly management at the Tufts Cummings School Farm.
A small grant project in 2022 brought Sonoma Land Trust, The Wildlands Conservancy, and Point Blue Conservation Science together to examine how birds respond to fuel reduction treatments like prescribed fire, mechanical thinning, and shaded fuel breaks.
Funded by a small grant, survey protocols and bird habitat enhancement practices were implemented by Sacramento Valley Conservancy at Deer Creek Hills Preserve in 2021.
As part of a small grant project in 2023, Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust implemented a variety of forestry techniques to diversify the breeding bird habitat at Guiney Memorial Forest.
The Center for Natural Lands Management used funding from a 2019 small grant to develop a model for demonstrating how sustainable grazing practices can contribute to maintaining habitat conditions for Oregon Vesper Sparrow and other grassland species.
Vermont Land Trust and Audubon Vermont worked together on two small grant projects, one in 2020 and another in 2023. The partnership helped Audubon Vermont identify project properties for bird-friendly habitat management while making Vermont Land Trust’s conservation work more enduring.
In 2023, New River Land Trust set out to understand bird species occurrence on two large farm properties protected by conservation easements in an effort to build relationships with the landowners.
After devastating wildfires swept through Washington in September of 2020, Chelan-Douglas Land Trust worked to restore riparian and shrubsteppe habitats on Spiva Butte Nature Preserve.
Funded by a small grant and constructed with the help of volunteers, Land Trust of North Alabama (LTNA) built a bird blind at Chapman Mountain Nature Preserve, an eBird hotspot.
Dauphin Island Bird Sanctuaries (DIBS), an all-volunteer land trust in Alabama, used funds from a small grant in 2021 to manage 15 acres of important habitats on the barrier island.
