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 integrate bird-friendly management practices onto your landscape. 

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VGBI’S IN-HOUSE RESOURCES:

• Postcard: VGBI Overview
• Booklet: Meet Your Virginia Grassland Birds
  • English
  • Spanish
• Factsheet: VGBI Incentives Program
• Factsheet: Diverse Forages: Good for the land, the herd, and the bird
• Factsheet: Raise the Blade
• Factsheet: American Kestrel Nest Boxes: Stewardship and Monitoring
• Factsheet: Nest-Box Guide for Virginia’s Cavity-Nesting Birds
• Factsheet: Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Grassland Birds
• Factsheet: Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Quail
• Factsheet: Native Plantings for Quail
• Pamphlet: Riparian Buffers for Wildlife
• Announcement: VGBI Incentives Program and Compatible NRCS Cost-Share Programs
• Event Guide & Checklist: Guide to Conservation Speed-Dating Workshops
  • Sample Flier
  • Sample Registration Form
  • Sample Organizing Spreadsheet
• Factsheet: Under Dark Skies: How Light Pollution Impacts Wildlife
• Factsheet: A Chimney Swift Guide for Homeowners
• Factsheet: Virginia NRCS & SWCD Cost-Share Practices That Benefit Grassland Bird Conservation

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CORE PARTNER RESOURCES:

Smithsonian’s Virginia Working Landscapes

• Factsheet: Grassland Biodiversity Surveys
• Factsheet: Birds Most Commonly Observed on VWL Grassland Bird Surveys
• 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
• Factsheet: Riparian Buffers: Benefits for Water, Wildlife and People

American Farmland Trust

• Website: Farmland Information Center (FIC): farmland protection and stewardship
• Podcast: American Farmland Trust’s “Landed” Podcast
• Toolkit: Soil Health Toolkit
• Grants: Bright Future Fund Grant Opportunities
• Storymap: Roots of Resilience: Stories from Regenerate Virginia’s Sustainable Grazing Project

Quail Forever

• Factsheet: Quail Fact Sheet
• Factsheet / Illustration: Prairie Grass Root Systems
• Factsheet: Bobwhites & Wild Turkeys: Is Habitat Management for These Birds Compatible?
• [Bobwhite Quail Initiative] Packet: Bargain Basement Bobwhites: An Affordable DIY Approach to Managing Land for Wild Bobwhite Quail

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PARTNER RESOURCES:

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

Bobolink Project

• Project Overview: The Bobolink Project

Connecticut River Grassland Bird Partnership

• Website
• Project Overview

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: Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative: Land Trusts in Action
• Website: Northeast Bird Habitat Conservation Initiative

Ernst Seeds

• Guide: Expectations Of Native Species

Iowa State University

• Website and Resources: Prairie Strips

Mass Audubon

• Website: Grassland Bird Program
• 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
• Factsheet: Economic and Production Performance of Grazing Native Grasses in the Fescue Belt
• Report: Northern Bobwhite, Grasslands, and Savannas: A framework for conservation action

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Credit Valley Conservation

• Factsheet: Protecting Grassland Bird Habitat

Perlut Lab Bobolink Odyssey at the University of New England

• Webpage
• Publications

Smithsonian Science Education Center

• Resource: Agriculture! How can we sustainably feed the world?

Southern Fire Exchange

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

University of Maryland Extension

• Factsheet: Recovering Northern Bobwhite Quail: A Guide to Habitat Management

University of Tennessee, Center for Native Grasslands Management

• Factsheet: Producing Hay from Native Warm-Season Grasses in the Mid-South
• Factsheet: Grazing Native Warm-Season Grasses in the Mid-South
• Factsheet: Establishing Native Warm-Season Grasses for Livestock Forage in the Mid-South

VA Cooperative Extension

• Website: Graze 300 program
• Factsheet: Grassland Agriculture & Our Environment: What the Public Needs to Know
• Publication: Using a Summer Stockpiling System to Extend the Grazing Season

VA Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR)

• Factsheet: Native Warm Season Grasses & Management

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

• Webinar: Meadows, Mountains, and Moraines: The history (and future) of northeastern grassland
• Webinar: Managing Grasslands for Birds
• Report: A Full Life Cycle Conservation Plan for Bobolink
• Storymap: Fantastic Flights: Technology Tells the Tale of Avian Travels

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

Wild Farm Alliance

• Factsheet: Nesting Structures for Beneficial Songbirds on Midwest Farms
• Factsheet: Installing Habitat to Increase Farm Diversity
• Factsheet: Supporting Beneficial Birds and Managing Pests

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