Six principles for working effectively with landowners to advance bird conservation

Abstract Private land management is an essential component of bird conservation. How private landowners manage their farms, rangelands, forests, and yards, influences the resources hazards birds encounter, with associated impacts on abundance. We describe 6 principles, based recent research, that conservation practitioners should incorporate into efforts landowners: (1) use social natural science stakeholder input to decide how where work; (2) tailor strategies local ecological conditions; (3) build relationships support landowner interests; (4) reduce barriers participation; (5) offer a menu options behavior; (6) promote persistence behavior. These principles emphasize importance recognizing considerations landowners, customizing interventions conditions, making as easy implement possible. Developing along diverse interventions, takes time effort but improve both uptake practices lands.