Video Library
Explore videos produced by land trust partners, small grant awardees, the Cornell Lab, and conservation organizations that help educate community members and inspire action around bird conservation. Videos may help spark ideas and answer questions about engaging birders in your work, restoring and managing habitats, educating your community, using eBird, understanding eBird Status and Trends, and conserving species.
Visit the Cornell Lab’s YouTube channel for more content related to birding and conservation.
Engaging Birders
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Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
Birding at SWMLC Nature Preserves
Produced with support of a 2020 small grant, this video invites people to go birding at SWMLC’s nature preserves and use eBird to record observations.
7 minutes
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Vermont Land Trust
The Pratt Refuge: A beautiful place to go birding in Vermont
This 2022 video invites birders to explore Pratt Refuge; in 2024, VLT enhanced habitat for priority bird species at this site with the support of a small grant.
2 minutes
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Alachua Conservation Trust
Bridging the Gap Between People and Birds
Produced with support of a 2020 small grant, this video provides a brief overview of a partnership with local birders and explains how to use eBird.
3 minutes
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Cornell Lab
Birdability: Birding is for everybody and every body!
Produced in honor of Birdability Week, this video explores how the nonprofit organization Birdability is making birding more inclusive for all.
5 minutes
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Cornell Lab
You Can Do Participatory Science
This video explores how students and people from all over the world are helping advance conservation by sharing their bird observations.
4 minutes
Restoring and Managing Habitat
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Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
Restoring Balance: The Guiney Memorial Forest Bird Restoration Project
Produced with support of a 2023 small grant, this video describes the bird-friendly habitat management practices implemented at Guiney Memorial Forest.
9 minutes
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Wolf River Conservancy
Restoring Wolf River Habitat
Produced with support of a 2021 small grant, this video provides an overview of bird habitat restoration techniques implemented at two conserved properties.
60 minutes
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Vermont Land Trust
Nordic Farms – Bird-friendly wetland planting
Produced with the support of a 2020 small grant, this video describes the tree and shrub species being planted to improve bird habitat at the project site.
1 minute
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Georgia Conservancy
Burning For Birds Field Days
Produced by a partner in the Burning for Birds Collaborative, this video promotes the ecological benefits of growing season fires for stewarding bird habitat on private lands in the southeast U.S.
4 minutes
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Big Waters Land Trust (formerly Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast)
Florida in Focus – Tatum Sawgrass Scrub Preserve Prescribed Burn
Produced with support of a 2019 small grant, this video is one of four in a playlist that describes the process used to restore habitat for gopher tortoise and Florida Scrub-Jay.
3 minutes
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Wild Wander
Longleaf Pine Land Stewardship Project
Produced with the support of Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy, a partner in the Burning for Birds Collaborative, this video explains how prescribed burns can help restore bird habitat in longleaf pine ecosystems.
7 minutes
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Grassland Bird Collaboration
Reversing the Decline of Grassland Birds Across Chester County
Hosted by the Valley Forge Audubon Society, this presentation introduces the Grassland Bird Collaboration, a program of Willistown Conservation Trust that received small grants in 2023 and 2024.
70 minutes
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Birds Georgia
Restoration at Laverlea Preserve
Produced with the support of a 2024 small grant, this short reel describes the steps involved in the restoration of 14 acres of meadow at Laverlea Preserve.
1 minute
Educating Your Community
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Cornell Lab
It’s Clear—Glass Kills. How to Prevent Bird Collisions at Your Home
In this webinar, migration ecologist Andrew Farnsworth describes why glass is such a huge threat to birds and how we can all do our part to make our homes safer for our feathered friends.
50 minutes
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Cornell Lab
Invasive Plants And Our Gardens
In this recording from a live event, native plants expert Mhairi McFarlane and Cornell Lab’s Becca Rodomsky-Bish discuss the basics of non-native and invasive plants and what you can do to manage them.
60 minutes
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Cornell Lab
Leaving our Fall Garden Resources with Doug Tallamy
In this webinar presented by the Cornell Lab’s Garden for Birds program, entomologist and author Doug Tallamy explains how how fallen leaves and garden resources provide vital habitat, food, and nesting materials for birds.
60 minutes
Using eBird
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Cornell Lab
Submit Your Sightings on eBird Mobile – eBird Essentials
Produced in 2023, this video provides step-by-step instructions on getting started with eBird Mobile.
5 minutes
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Coastal Prairie Conservancy
Using eBird on the Katy Prairie
Produced with support of a 2020 small grant, this webinar provides instruction on getting started with eBird and shares advice about birding in the area.
30 minutes
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Taos Land Trust
How to “eBird” (and Citizen Science Projects)
Produced with support of a 2020 small grant, this video is part three of a four-part workshop; it describes eBird and explains how to use it.
60 minutes
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Kent Land Trust
eBird Tutorial
Produced with support of a 2022 small grant, this video provides a basic orientation to eBird and hotspots and describes how to use the Merlin app.
60 minutes
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Apalachee Audubon
Building your eBirding Skills to Help Birds
Produced to support the Burning for Birds Collaborative, this webinar covers what every birder needs to know to successfully utilize eBird and provides direct examples of how eBird has informed science.
60 minutes
Understanding eBird Status and Trends
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Cornell Lab
Working w. eBird Status and Trends: An online science workshop for practitioners and R users Part I
In the first of a three-part Birds of the World Discovery Webinar targeted to those familiar with using R, scientists from the Cornell Lab provide an introduction to eBird Status and Trends data products.
120 minutes
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Cornell Lab
Working w. eBird Status and Trends Part II: analyzing Status data in R
In the second of a three-part Birds of the World Discovery Webinar, scientists from the Cornell Lab showcase a few realistic applications of eBird Status data products and address a number of use cases posed by the audience.
90 minutes
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Cornell Lab
Working with eBird Status and Trends data products. Part III: Trends applications
In the last of a three-part Birds of the World Discovery Webinar, scientists from the Cornell Lab showcase a few realistic applications of eBird Trends data products and answer questions from the audience.
90 minutes
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Cornell Lab
eBird Status and Trends with Cornell Lab Senior Scientist Amanda Rodewald
This 2025 video highlights how eBird observations are helping scientists understand bird population trends and decide where to focus conservation investments.
3 minutes
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Cornell Lab
BOW Webinar: Estimating Abundance and Trends for the World’s Birds using eBird data with Tom Auer
This 2023 video help users understand how eBird Status and Trends products are produced and how they are being applied in research and conservation.
90 minutes
Conserving Species
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Virginia Working Landscape on TEDx
Bringing Back the Birds | Amy Johnson
In this TEDx talk, Smithsonian Conservation Biologist Dr. Amy Johnson shares insights from her research working with farmers in Virginia and describes how they are leading change to help reverse declines and bring birds back.
18 minutes
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Cornell Lab
How Birds Can Help Bend the Curve on Biodiversity Loss
In this Birds of the World Discovery Webinar, Cornell Lab Conservation Biologist Dr. Amanda Rodewald shares stories about birds as powerful indicator species for wildlife and habitat conservation.
50 minutes
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Willistown Conservation Trust
Bird Conservation Program & Northeast Motus Collaboration
This video provides an overview of the bird conservation program at Willistown Conservation Trust, an organization that was awarded small grants in 2023 and 2024.
6 minutes