How do we collect the information needed to protect birds?
Bird conservation actions could not be developed without species monitoring and research into habitat needs, threats, and effective conservation measures. Monitoring. Monitoring is the collection of data that are able to reveal significant trends in factors of interest. Bird population monitoring programs, such as the Breeding Bird Survey and the Christmas Bird Count, have measured the numbers of breeding and wintering birds. They have been valuable in assessing long-term population trends over North America. Other monitoring projects, particularly the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship program (MAPS), are examining survival rate and reproductive success-two important factors that provide information on why a population is changing. Thousands of volunteers are involved every year in these significant large scale monitoring efforts: 1. Breeding Bird Survey -For the last 33 years, volunteers have collected breeding bird data along approximately 3000 survey routes in North Ame
