Learn more about grassland bird conservation:

The resources on this page provide an excellent place to start if you are a landowner or producer looking to bring bird-friendly practices onto your landscape. 

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American Bird Conservancy

• Factsheet: Feral Cats: Consequences for Humans and Wildlife
• Factsheet: Domestic Cat Predation on Birds and Other Wildlife
• Factsheet: Toolkit to Address Free-Ranging Domestic Cats
• Video: Sustainable Grazing Project
• Report: Neonicotinoid insecticides: Failing to come to grips with a predictable environmental disaster

Ag Allies

• Factsheet: Ag Allies Grassland Bird Project
• Factsheet: Delay Mowing for Grassland Habitat Conservation

Birds Canada

• Packet: Grasslands Conservation Incentives Guide
• Packet: Climate and Biodiversity Friendly Production Practices: Resource Guide

Cornell Cooperative Extension

• Factsheet: Hayfield Management and Grassland Bird Conservation
• Factsheet: Enhancing Pastures for Grassland Bird Habitat

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

• Packet: Create an Insect Buffet for Birds
• Website: All About Birds
• Website: eBird
• Website: Northeast Bird Habitat Conservation Initiative

Mass Audubon

• Packet: Best Management Practices for Nesting Grassland Birds

National Bobwhite & Grassland Initiative

• Booklet: Beef, Grass, & Bobwhites: Quail Management in Eastern Warm-Season Grass Pastures

Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA)

• Factsheet: Extend Grazing with Summer Stockpiling
• Report: Managing Working Lands for Northern Bobwhite
• Report: Management Considerations for Grassland Birds in Northeastern Haylands and Pasturelands
• Factsheet: Delay hay cuttings to allow birds to successfully fledge young

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Credit Valley Conservation

• Factsheet: Protecting Grassland Bird Habitat

Southern Fire Exchange

• Factsheet: Growing-season Burns and Ground-nesting Birds

Smithsonian’s Virginia Working Landscapes

• Factsheet: Birding Resources
• Factsheet: Bird Song Identification
• Factsheet: Field Management Guidelines for Virginia’s Grassland & Shrubland Birds
• Pamphlet: Shrub & Grassland Birds of Virginia
• Pamphlet: Bringing Back the Butcher Bird
• Video: Bringing Back the Birds | 2020 Tedx Talk by Dr. Amy Johnson

The Piedmont Environmental Council

• Guide: Managing Land in the Piedmont for the Benefit of Birds and Other Wildlife

VA Cooperative Extension

• Website: Graze 300 program
• Factsheet: Grassland Agriculture & Our Environment: What the Public Needs to Know

Virginia Forage & Grassland Council

• Factsheet: Grassland Agriculture and Our Environment: What the Public Needs to Know
• Factsheet: Conversion of tall fescue to NWSG for greater livestock performance and better environmental outcomes

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