Urban Landscapes: Conserving Birds on Golf Courses RMBO has developed a book on integrating bird conservation with golf course design and management. By following the principles outlined in the book, golf course architects and managers can provide habitat conditions beneficial for many bird species, including some species of significant conservation concern.

Properly designed and managed golf courses can benefit breeding, wintering, and migrating birds, because golf courses have larger amounts of vegetation and lower levels of human activity than other urban land uses, such as parks, cemeteries, residential, and commercial. The principles in the book are broad enough to be of value beyond just golf courses. Other professionals that could use the book include landscape architects, city planners, real estate developers, and managers of open space areas, parks, cemeteries, industrial and municipal complexes, college campuses, school grounds, and estates—in short, anyone whose design, planning, or maintenance work affects birds and their habitats in developed areas.

Copies of the book can be ordered directly from the publisher, John Wiley & Sons. This project was funded by a grant from the U.S. Golf Association's Wildlife Links program, through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.