Tricolored Blackbird Portal

Current efforts include:

• annual field work to detect and monitor (i.e. document the fates of) the largest colonies in the Central Valley to help to prioritize colonies for conservation actions, to estimate the numbers of breeding adults, and to estimate the numbers of young produced (i.e. derive an estimate of colony productivity)
• annual color-banding of primarily adults birds at several breeding colonies to help to document spatial and temporal movements and to evaluate patterns of site fidelity
  
• education and outreach, including the production and distribution of a brochure to describe the efforts being made on behalf of the tricolored blackbird and to encourage agency field personnel and birders to report observations of color-banded birds
• development of this web portal to provide information on the tricolored blackbird and to accumulate, document, and disseminate data on colonies and observations of color-banded birds and aggregations, both breeding and non-breeding