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We are located in Quincy, California and our Mission is to contribute to the conservation of birds and their habitats in the region.  Recent projects include conducting surveys for Plumas Corporation creek restoration projects including surveying for species including Willow Flycatcher, Great Gray Owl, and Northern Goshawk and assessing potential impacts of restoration activities to special-status wildlife species.  In 2005, the Avian Center partnered with Todd Sloat Biological Consulting in McArthur, California and EDAW in South Lake Tahoe, California to conduct point count surveys in the Lake Tahoe Basin.  These surveys were part of the U.S. Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Multi-species Inventory and Monitoring Program, the results of which provided a baseline for long-term monitoring of bird populations in the Basin.  

In Nevada, the Avian Center developed the framework for the Partners in Flight All Bird Monitoring Program in a concept paper commissioned by the Lahontan Audubon Society in 2002.  The focus of the program is a statewide network of point count transects, which provides coverage in all of the habitat types set forth in the NV PIF Bird Conservation Plan and generates status and trend information for many of the bird species breeding in Nevada.  This task has been carried out by the Great Basin Bird Observatory.  The program also proposed monitoring efforts for secretive and dispersed species not detected during point count surveys, such as Flammulated Owls and threatened and endangered species such as Long-billed Curlew and Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  The Avian Center contributed to the program in 2002 by conducting a study on the distribution of breeding Flammulated Owls in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada, which was funded by the USFS Humboldt-Tioyabe NF.

Click one of The links below for information on this and other research regarding dispersal, habitat use, breeding and wintering distributions, mating systems, and threatened, endangered, and sensitive species in NM, NV, and CA.

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