Data Products and Applications
Bird Conservancy strives to make our monitoring programs actionable through the development of cutting-edge analyses, data products, maps, tools, and applications. Informed conservation decision making rarely, if ever, relies on “raw data”, rather conservation professionals need refined data products relevant to the scale of management. Our team of Research Scientists develop statistical models to characterize bird population trends through space and time and response to management action to maximize conservation delivery and efficacy. Likewise, our programmers package those data products into user-friendly applications to maximize utility for conservation.
Rocky Mountain Avian Database Center 2.0 (RMADC)
The Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center is a user-friendly portal for the data collected as part of the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program. The platform provides the public, researchers, land managers, and program partners access to the data through mapping functionality and key status and trend data products. Specifically, RMADC provides customizable (i.e., by geography and time) data on populations estimates, density, occupancy, and trend. The recently revised platform will continue to evolve and grow with custom data visualizations and map functionality.
Avian Conservation Assessment & Population Estimates Databases (ACAD & PED)
Bird Conservancy hosts two Partners in Flight data bases the Avian Conservation and Assessment Database (ACAD) and the Population Estimates Database (PED). These collaboratively developed and curated databases for North American landbirds provide a standardized and transparent system that enables population estimates and conservation status comparisons at multiple geographic scales (Canada, US, and Mexico).
ACAD is the repository for biological information from the PIF species assessment process. PIF species assessments are available at the global and regional scale. In the US and Canada Bird Conservation Regions are used for regional assessments, whereas other strata are used in Mexico and Central America.
Motus Shiny Application
Our Motus Shiny Application condenses all of our Motus data for our Great Plains-Chihuahuan Desert Network into a user friendly platform. On this application you can see how many stations are in our network, how many birds we have tagged, and how many migrations we have mapped with this technology.
Northern Great Plains Joint Venture
Information coming soon!
Data Requests
Bird Conservancy aims to make our data accessible to inform conservation and delivery. Data from multiple programmatic areas (IMBCR, Motus, Non-Breeding, etc.) are available for data sharing. To protect personally identifiable information (PII), not all data may be shareable. Data requests are free to all Bird Conservancy programmatic partners. However, given that curating and managing data does come at a cost, we have implemented fees for all non-IMBCR partners. Data request fees are scaled by the spatial and temporal scope of the request. Data request fee waivers are available when a requester has a pre-existing and established collaboration with a current IMBCR partner or the proposed data usage/project is funded by a partner. These fees ensure we can continue delivering high-quality data products and maintain robust annual monitoring coverages. Data products will continue to be free and are accessible through other web-based portals such as the RMADC.
Bird Conservancy’s Data Policy
