Robust science underpins BirdLife’s conservation programmes, policy and advocacy and communications. Through our commitment to rigorous data-gathering and analysis, we ensure that scarce resources are targeted effectively. BirdLife Partners undertake scientific research and priority setting at a national level.

These efforts are supported by the BirdLife Secretariat, working in close collaboration with a diverse range of universities, academic institutes, government agencies, non-governmental organisations and other bodies across the world. This work generates a vast array of data and information, which the Secretariat manages in extensive global datasets on species, sites and other aspects of conservation.

Our scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals make BirdLife a world-leader in conservation science. We identify the bird species at greatest risk of extinction, the most important sites for their conservation, the most urgent threats to address, the actions required to tackle them and the policies needed to sustain nature. We develop and produce biodiversity indicators to measure the impact of actions and track progress towards global targets for nature conservation.

All our data, information, analyses and summaries are freely available through the BirdLife Data Zone, while our research is summarised in periodic State of the World’s Birds reports.