Acknowledgements

A committee of dedicated professionals contributed to the various developmental stages of the New Brunswick HBAT through discussion and review.

Many thanks to:

• Agricultural Alliance of New Brunswick
• Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre
• Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC)
• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• NatureServe Canada
• Nature Trust of New Brunswick
• New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development

Foundational resources for New Brunswick HBAT are the precursive Alberta and Nova Scotia HBATs. The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association provided national technical expertise and fostered collegial collaboration among provinces during the tool’s development process across Canada. This project has been funded by the Canada Nature Fund through Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Public and private biodiversity data sources are one of the backbones of this tool and have been shared with this project in the spirit of conservation and collaboration. We further gratefully acknowledge all volunteer participants who gathered observations and data for citizen science databases. Also acknowledged are the hundreds of skilled volunteers in Canada who have participated in the Breeding Bird Survey over the years and those who have served as provincial or territorial coordinators for the BBS.

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