The US fish and wildlife service shorebird 3BB team has identified a need to implement field-based shorebird conservation workshops in areas critical to shorebirds to help improve and ensure that…

The US fish and wildlife service shorebird 3BB team has identified a need to implement field-based shorebird conservation workshops in areas critical to shorebirds to help improve and ensure that suitable habitat conditions are provided at appropriate times on public and private lands across the US. This project addresses that need and seeks to increase habitat quality and availability for declining shorebirds by increasing communication and exchange of information and collaboratively identify innovative solutions with land managers, decision makers, and others to help improve the quantity, quality, and availability of shorebird habitat on public and privately owned sites.many state wildlife areas and other managed sites have had great success managing waterfowl habitat and have helped waterfowl populations increase. Those management actions often supported shorebirds, but these shorebird conservation workshops will provide further support for managers on public and private lands to expand their management considerations to include shorebirds more intentionally where appropriate.workshops are an effective way to leverage what is already known about shorebird population status, habitat use, timing of use, and threats to help ensure that vital information is in the hands of the people who deliver habitat conservation. This project will provide an interactive field and classroom setting where a community of practitioners from a defined area important to shorebirds come together to learn more about why and how to support shorebirds in that landscape, and to share information. Additionally, these workshops could help buildrelationships and subsequent collaboration among practitioners.without these conservation and management workshops, land managers and practitioners may not become aware of the urgency to intentionally provide suitable habitat conditions for shorebirds.