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About the Migratory Bird Program

The Nature Conservancy's Migratory Bird Program helps to ensure that protection efforts appropriately address the special habitat needs of wide-ranging and migratory birds.

Conservation ornithologists and planners work to identify networks of habitats needed by bird species throughout North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Then, they develop plans and implement strategies to help conserve them at the local level.

Our Bird Projects

Through Conservancy projects, remarkable progress is being made to:

• Conserve the grassland birds of the Great Plains of North America
• Study climate change in the Great Plains and its effect on bird populations
• Identify and protect a network of high-quality migration stopover habitats around the Gulf of Mexico
• Conserve migratory birds on the Pacific Coast of North America
• Examine the wintering ecology and habitat requirements of Kirtland's Warbler
• Study the Cerulean Warbler, one of the fastest declining species of migratory bird
• Delve into the Pine-Oak Forests of Central America to conserve this critical habitat for birds
• Investigate bird migration across the United States using Doppler weather radar

Birds make a difference in all of our lives -- as a measure of our environment's health, a sign of things to come, or as a surprise visitor on a midday hike. We can return the favor and make a difference for birds, too.

How You Can Help Birds

You can help support our migratory birds conservation work and make a difference for the birds and for the environment when you use our safe and secure online donation form.