The Institute for Bird Populations, based in Marin County, California, is a non-profit organization dedicated to studying and monitoring bird populations, and providing land managers and policy makers with information needed to better manage those populations.
The Institute was founded in 1989 by Executive Director Dr. David DeSante to develop and coordinate the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship Program (MAPS), a network of approxima...
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The Institute for Bird Populations, based in Marin County, California, is a non-profit organization dedicated to studying and monitoring bird populations, and providing land managers and policy makers with information needed to better manage those populations.
The Institute was founded in 1989 by Executive Director Dr. David DeSante to develop and coordinate the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship Program (MAPS), a network of approximately 500 standardized bird banding stations across North America. Other major initiatives include the development of the Monitoreo de Sobreviviencia Invernal Program (MoSI), a cooperative effort among agencies, organizations, and individual bird-banders in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean to monitor overwintering survival rates of both Neotropical migratory and resident bird species; research and conservation efforts on behalf of birds in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains (IBP's Sierra Nevada Bird Observatory); a coordinated...
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