ABSTRACT
Abstract ..................................................................................................................240 Introduction ............................................................................................................240 Organizational Structure ........................................................................................ 241 Organizational Performance ..................................................................................244 Biological Planning ................................................................................................ 247 Conservation Design .............................................................................................. 247 Habitat Delivery ..................................................................................................... 247
No single entity can effectively address conservation planning and actions for migratory bird species that move across continents annually to fulšll their life cycle needs. Successful landscape-level conservation requires cooperation and coordination of efforts among individual conservation entities. U.S. bird habitat joint ventures (JVs) are highly successful partnerships of public agencies, private organizations, corporations, and individual landowners that work cooperatively to meet shared goals. JVs identify and address strategic habitat conservation needs for priority bird populations through biological planning, conservation design, research, monitoring, communication, education, and outreach (CEO) that maximize the effectiveness of conservation delivery activities of the individual member agencies/organizations of the partnership. JVs have a greater impact than individual partners working independently. The highly successful model for JV bird conservation partnerships has been successfully copied for other taxa and issues, including Regional Alliances in Mexico, the Monarch Joint Venture, Fish Habitat Partnerships, and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives.
