Chihuahuan Desert Grassland Bird Conservation Plan

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

Published in 2014, the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory’s (RMBO) Conservation Plan for the Chihuahuan Desert is the result of a direct partnership with the Rio Grande Joint Venture (RGJV). The RGJV commissioned the RMBO to center a comprehensive addition to the RGJV’s current plan around five priority bird species: the Baird’s Sparrow, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Lark Bunting, Loggerhead Shrike and Sprague’s Pipit. 

The Rio Grande Joint Venture’s primary goal in commissioning the RMBO’s work was to provide a universal resource for North American Bird Habitat Joint Ventures, as these organizations lead and guide the protection efforts of wild bird populations across the North American grasslands. The project resulted in an exhaustive conservation outline tailored to each of the identified priority bird species, mostly based on outsourced GIS data.

Financial support for the project was provided by a number of entities including the Rio Grande Joint Venture, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and the American Bird Conservancy. Like many large conservation implementation plans and analyses of this scale, the Conservation Plan also had numerous contributors to its data collection, some of the major organizations being the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the US Forest Service International Program, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Read the Executive Summary here: https://birdconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ChihuahuanDesertGrasslandBirdPlan2012v1.0.pdf#page=4

Read the Executive Summary in Spanish here: https://birdconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ChihuahuanDesertGrasslandBirdPlan2012v1.0.pdf#page=6

https://birdconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ChihuahuanDesertGrasslandBirdPlan2012v1.0.pdf