In the 2012 President's Budget Request, the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is terminated. As a result, all resources, databases, tools, and applications within this web site will be removed on January 15, 2012. For more information, please refer to the NBII Program Termination page.
Bird monitoring is at a crossroads. While monitoring programs have existed in North America for nearly a century, recent political, biological, sociological, and economic changes necessitate a new and more efficient approach. Fortunately, we now have tools available to meet the demands, including powerful coalitions of the willing within agencies, organizations, and universities. Further, rapid advances in several areas auger well for the process: specifically, advances in monitoring methods, data archiving, and extremely powerful computer tools that allow retrieval and analysis, all have reached unprecedented levels of sophistication.
The waterbird, shorebird, and landbird initiatives have all begun work on taxa-specific monitoring programs. Their plans identify species that warrant monitoring, important habitat relationships, declare goals for long-term estimates of trend in population size, and - to varying degrees - describe how the goals can best be achieved. Coordinated Bird Monitoring (CBM) is an attempt by the initiatives, working with many agencies, nongovernment organizations, and individuals, to forge a comprehensive approach to monitoring that will provide information on all nongame birds.
This site has:
Documents that describe the CBM program.
A series of reports for each of the 48 coterminous States summarizing information about important aquatic bird areas.
State Coordinated Bird Monitoring (CBM) Plans.
Intermountain West Coordinated Bird Monitoring Program Web Page
The Intermountain West Coordinated Bird Monitering Program (IWCBM) is a cooperative effort by numerous organizations to improve the efficiency and utility of bird monitoring in the Intermountain West.
This site is intended primarily to let visitors download documents that describe the IWCBM program. Click here to download an overview of the program, and here for the most recent progress report. The program has four main parts at present:
Visit each of these pages for brief descriptions of the modules and other downloadable reports or visit the Publication and Reports page for a comprehensive list of downloadable reports.
The NBII Program is administered by the Biological Informatics Program of the U.S. Geological Survey