Welcome to the Mississippi River Twin Cities Important Bird Area Landbird Monitoring
Program!
This project is a citizen science monitoring initiative designed to inventory and
monitor the abundance of landbirds in the
Mississippi River Twin Cities IBA. Since our first season in 2004, participants
have recorded 139 landbird species on 10 sites within the IBA during spring migration
and summer breeding seasons. Thank you to all our volunteers who make the program
a success!
Learn more about
Minnesota's Important Bird Areas and how this citizen science program
is working to evaluate the state of landbird species in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul
metro. For more information on how you can get involved,
contact Mark Martell, Audubon Minnesota’s Director of Bird Conservation.
How can Important Bird Area data inform planning and bird conservation?
© Hayley Bonsteel.
University of Minnesota Landscape Architecture student Hayley Bonsteel used data
collected for the Mississippi River Twin Cities IBA Landbird Monitoring Program
to help design a Complete Street plan that will support canopy-foraging songbirds
migrating through the Twin Cities.
Look through her design boards or booklet
to learn more about how we can make our cities better habitat for both humans and
wildlife.
Special thanks to those whose support has made this program possible:
Audubon Minnesota
The Mississippi River Fund: Providing
funding to develop the monitoring protocols.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Funding to
develop website/database interface. Partial funding for this program is supported
by a Grant Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife
Service. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their
endorsement by the U.S. government.
U.S. National Park Service