BIRD TRENDS A report on results of national ornithological surveys in Canada Landbirds (Spring 1998) INSIDE: Landbirds: developing predictive capability Monitoring Canada's songbirds: status and results Monitoring results Migration monitoring in Canada Project FeederWatch: tracking winter population change Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Pilot Grassland bird monitoring in Prairie Canada Forest Bird Monitoring in Saskatchewan Ontario's Forest Bird Monitoring Program History and current status of the Eastern Bluebird Using trend data in setting priorities for Canada's landbirds Landbirds at Risk In Canada Volunteer program menu

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After five years, Bird Trends returns to species reviewed in the very first issue. This gives us the opportunity to reflect on changes in our ability to monitor songbirds, as well as to look at species whose trends have changed in the interim. To identify the beginning of this second series, we've adopted a new look for the newsletter; we hope it better presents the results of the featured surveys. Our thanks are due to those of you who collect and analyse the data that fill these pages.

Bird Trends is published annually for free distribution by the Canadian Wildlife Service. To save resources, please help us maintain a current mailing list. Bird Trends aims to provide: feedback to volunteers of ornithological surveys; information on trends in Canadian bird populations; a menu of volunteer-based ornithological projects in Canada. Contents may be used without permission with appropriate credit to the source. Additional information may be obtained from: Migratory Birds Conservation Division, Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3, tel (819) 953-4390, fax (819) 994-4445, email: Martin.Damus@ec.gc.ca Illustrations are Corel clipart, used under license, except for the European Starling, by John A. Crosby, from the Birds of Canada, revised edition 1986, by W. Earl Godfrey, National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa K1A 0M8.