Bird Conservation Initiatives

In Canada, NABCI’s goal to maintain the diversity and abundance of all North American birds is being achieved by integrating conservation efforts for the four bird initiatives:

Waterfowl: ducks, geese, and swans

Landbirds: birds of prey (hawks, eagles, falcons and owls), upland game birds (partridges, grouse, and quail), pigeons and doves, cuckoos, nightjars, swifts and hummingbirds, kingfishers, woodpeckers, and passerines

Shorebirds: plovers, oystercatchers, avocets and stilts, sandpipers, curlews and snipes, and phalaropes

Waterbirds: seabirds (gannets, albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, fulmars, kittiwakes, gulls and terns) including auks (puffins, murres, razorbills and guillemots), and inland waterbirds (herons, rails, coots, bitterns, cranes, loons and grebes)