Our Boundaries
Pacific Birds works at the flyway scale, asking what birds need throughout their annual life cycle. Our boundaries are expansive because of the birds that travel our migratory flyways. For the next ten years, Pacific Birds is prioritizing conservation in coastal habitats and Western forests within the Pacific Birds service area.
Within coastal habitats, the focus will center on estuaries, freshwater wetlands, and shallow marine habitats in coastal watersheds in the United States and Canada. Within Western forests, the focus will center on oak and prairie habitats in the Pacific Northwest, and riparian forests in British Columbia. Across the priority habitats, working collaboratively on natural and working lands managed by public, private, Tribal, and Indigenous entities is essential for conservation success.
The detailed approaches for advancing these conservation priorities, including priority species, objectives, and metrics are described in the following existing or in-development documents:
North America
In North America, Pacific Birds includes Alaska and the western portions of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern California.
Pacific Region
Our Pacific region includes: the Hawaiian Islands; Midway Atoll; the Territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; the Republic of Palau; the Federated States of Micronesia; the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and Howland, Jarvis, Palmyra, Wake, and Johnston Islands. Our boundary extends 200 miles offshore.
Where We Work
