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Important Bird Areas (IBAs)
IBAs and You
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Important Bird Areas (IBAs) are a natural
focus of volunteer, citizen-scientist monitoring projects,
which can lead to positive local stewardship and advocacy.
Identification of a site as an IBA is both a tool for assisting
private landowners and public land managers – and a
rationale for preserving habitat from threats.
You can help identify, monitor, and conserve
Important Bird Areas. Here’s a list (by no means exhaustive!)
of opportunities:
—Nominate a site or organize volunteers
to fill out nomination forms for sites in your area
—Organize a birding field trip to
IBAs in your area.
—If you visit or participate in
a field trip on an IBA, keep track of the species and number
of individual birds you see and hear, and report your results
to the state IBA coordinator
or to the eBird
online database.
—Organize a bird survey at an IBA
or potential IBA, or conduct a census of a WatchList
species on an IBA.
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| © Jeff Larsen |
—Adopt an IBA and help to develop
a conservation plan for the site in partnership with Audubon
Washington and local partners.
—Advocate for funding for an IBA
where land acquisition is underway.
—Recruit and organize volunteers
to help an IBA managed by a refuge, state park, or land trust.
—Advocate for laws and policies
that will benefit birds of concern at IBAs.
—Write articles and letters about
IBAs in newsletters, magazines, newspapers, and other outlets
to help educate citizens about the important bird habitats
in your area.
Join Audubon
today to help the successful IBA program continue!
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