Northern Bobwhite experts from around the country will meet in West Des Moines, Iowa, at the end of this month for the 2014 meeting of the National Bobwhite Technical Committee (NBTC). The NBTC - comprised of representatives of state wildlife agencies, academic research institutions, and private conservation organizations - is the technical group guiding the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI). NBCI is intended to elevate Northern Bobwhite recovery from an individual state-by-state proposition to a range-wide, policy-level leadership endeavor. The NBCI goal is to restore wild populations of Northern Bobwhites in this country to levels comparable to those of 1980. Although the primary target is the Northern Bobwhite, the programs impacts extend beyond bobwhites to include a suite of declining grassland songbirds, pollinators, and other species. Some of the other birds considered include Greater Prairie-Chicken, Henslows Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Eastern Meadowlark, and Dickcissel.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:53:57 +0000
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