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The NBII Bird Conservation Node supports bird conservation by promoting increased online access to data and information resources relevant to management and conservation of bird populations and their habitats across North America. Over the years, the Node has provided financial and technical support to projects that increase timely availability of datasets used to assess status and trends of bird populations and their habitats, consolidate dispersed data and information into common data structures and formats, and provide tools/applications that enhance exploration and understanding of data by users.

Supported Projects:

Bird and Habitat Databases

• American Woodcock Singing-ground Survey
• Atlantic Flyway Breeding Waterfowl Survey
• Atlantic Flyway Sea Duck Survey
• Centralizing information on birds and State Wildlife Action Plans in the Atlantic Flyway
  [In progress - Prototype application for bird information contained in State Wildlife Action Plans for the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture geographic area.]
• Duck Stamp Sales Database
• Important Bird Areas and Species of the Americas
• Latin America and Caribbean Waterfowl Surveys
• Latin America and Caribbean Wetland Inventory
• Mexican Mid-winter Waterfowl Survey
• Mid-winter Bald Eagle Survey
• Mid-winter Waterfowl Survey
• Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program data summaries
• Mourning Dove Call-Count Survey
• North American Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer
• Program for Regional and International Shorebird Monitoring (PRISM) databases
  [Non-breeding shorebird surveys databases and web-based data entry tools for the International Shorebird Survey, Maritimes Shorebird Survey and Ontario Shorebird Survey, Pacific Flyway Shorebird Surveys, and Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Shorebird Survey.
• Tricolored Blackbird Survey
• Waterbird Monitoring Database
• Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey
• Waterfowl Hunter Mail Questionnaire Survey

Standards, Protocols, and Data Sharing Methods

• Bird Monitoring Data Exchange Schema
• Bird Monitoring Data Registry - Project information; Access metadata records

Maps and Data Exploration/Visualization Tools

• Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere
• Latin America and Caribbean Waterfowl Surveys and Wetland Inventory Interactive Maps
• North American Breeding Bird Atlas Viewer (application no longer available) - visit Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer for data and maps.

Overview Sites

• Migratory Bird Data Center
• USFWS Focal Species Website