Partners in Flight International Science Committee: Migratory Bird Conservation Tools and Applications

Partners in Flight (PIF) is a dynamic and welcoming network of more than 150 partner organizations distributed throughout the Western Hemisphere. PIF is engaged in all aspects of landbird conservation from science, research, planning, and policy development, to land management, monitoring, education, and outreach. The mission of PIF is keeping common birds common and helping species at risk through voluntary partnerships. The PIF International Science Committee is an open forum of scientists dedicated to advancing scientific concepts and approaches for landbird conservation at range-wide and regional scales. The focus of this special issue is to provide perspectives on successful collaborative approaches undertaken under the PIF umbrella, feature analyses to target bird conservation efforts, and to describe the methods and conservation applications of PIF Science’s flagship tools: the Avian Conservation Assessment Database and Population Estimates Database.