Important Bird Areas (IBAs)
From The Science of Birds · 42:07
Show by Ivan Phillipsen
👕 Bird Merch — Get yourself some bird shirts!~~~Some places matter more to birds than others, and Important Bird Areas, or IBAs, are the sites scientists have flagged as places birds can't afford to lose. In Episode 140, host Ivan Phillipsen starts at Horse Creek Meadows, a sunlit mountain meadow in southwestern Oregon, and asks what it takes for a spot like this to earn that official designation. Who decides, and what does it actually do for the birds?Along the way, the episode covers the four criteria behind the program, from endangered species to enormous gatherings of shorebirds. It visits IBAs from Arizona's sky islands to a Kansas wetland to Minnesota's famous Sax-Zim Bog. You'll also learn how these sites get their regular check-ups, and why so much of that work falls to volunteers and citizen scientists.The episode also takes a candid look at what an IBA label doesn't do, and why a gap remains between knowing where birds need help and actually protecting those places.Links of InterestIBA Explorer - National Audubon SocietyImportant Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) - BirdLife🔥 Bird Merch - 11 New Shirt Designs!Support the show
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