1. Conserving Birds & Their Habitats Brief Overview of IMBCR Program and New Developments

2. Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) Expanded from Monitoring Colorado’s Birds One of the largest breeding bird monitoring programs in the nation Directly addresses the “Opportunities for Improving Avian Monitoring” 2007

3. Guidelines for Avian Monitoring Goal 1: Integrate monitoring into bird management and conservation practices. Goal 2: Coordinate monitoring programs among organizations and integrate them across spatial scales. Goal 3: Increase the value of monitoring information by improving statistical design. Goal 4: Maintain bird population monitoring data in modern data management systems. http://www.nabci-us.org/aboutnabci/monitoringreportfinal0307.pdf

4. IMBCR Survey Area

5. Integrated Framework Hierarchical framework for inferences at multiple spatial scales Black Hills NFWyomingBCR 17

6. Program Growth

7. IMBCR Funding Partners

8. IMBCR Implementation and Analyses Partners

9. Sage Obligate Bird Modeling Apparent long-term decline of sagebrush birds Species of conservation concern Greater Sage-Grouse habitat management Brewer’s Sparrow Sage Sparrow Sage Thrasher

10. Multi-species Landscape Priorities

11. Species Richness (Wyoming)

12. Inform Management Brewer’s SparrowSage Thrasher Sage Sparrow

14. Outcome-based Monitoring for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Objectives: Monitor the outcomes of LPCH conservation practices for grassland birds Determine responses of grassland birds to habitat management- quantify outcomes Inform multi species conservation efforts

15. LEPC Range-Wide Study Area LEPC Range-Wide Study Area

16. AKN 2.0 Cornell initiated with NSF grant Point Blue (formerly PRBO) now taking lead New website www.avianknowledge.netwww.avianknowledge.net

17. Griffin Groups Free online tool Post documents and discussions Receive email when there is activity in your groups In addition to the listserv

18. Proposals that are submitted NFWF – Northern Great Plains initiative Develop conservation business plan for the NGP Implement monitoring program (IMBCR) DOD Implement IMBCR monitoring on DOD lands

19. Other IMBCR Projects?