IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS PROGRAM
A Global Currency for Bird Conservation

The Important Bird Areas Program (IBA) is a global effort to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and other biodiversity. By working with Audubon chapters, landowners, public agencies, community groups, and other non-profits, Audubon endeavors to interest and activate a broad network of supporters to ensure that all Important Bird Areas are properly managed and conserved.


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The Important Bird Areas Program recognizes that coupled with global warming, habitat loss and fragmentation are the most serious threats facing populations of birds across America and around the world. By working to identify and implement conservation strategies at Important Bird Areas, we hope to minimize the effects that habitat loss and degradation have on birds and other biodiversity.

Unless we can slow the pace of our changing climate and the rapid destruction and degradation of habitat, populations of many birds may decline to dangerously low levels. Please visit the links on the left and above to learn more about Important Bird Areas and how you can help.

IBA HIGHLIGHTS

174 Global IBAs Prioritized to date!
Check out the latest list here, including sites for Cerulean Warber, Island Scrub-Jay, Red-headed Woodpecker and more.

 

Major Victory for Birds
Efforts to develop a Navy landing field near Pocosin Lakes NWR, a Global Important Bird Area, have been dropped, thanks to the efforts of Audubon North Carolina staff and volunteers. Click here for more details on the decision.
 
Oil spill threatens IBAs in the San Francisco Bay Area
Click map below to see the immediate impacts of the November oil spill to birds and their critical habitats, and learn more about what you can do to help. Click here to see other IBAs in California.
 
Essential Sites for Waterbird Conservation
Click map below to learn more about the Waterbirds on Working Lands Project and the Important Bird Areas that are significant to waterbirds in agricultural landscapes.
 
Conserving IBAs for Neotropical Migrants
Click Here for species and information on the IBAs supporting them.

See previous IBA Highlights