With so many threats facing North American songbird populations, monitoring bird populations is becoming ever important to track changes. It can be relatively easy to contribute data to ongoing monitoring projects around the continent.  These large datasets, relying on the collective power of individuals' data collection, will be instrumental in tracking changes in bird populations.  

Additional methods of tracking birds, such as MOTUS towers, can continue to build our knowledge of the movement of birds. As we erect more of these towers around the country and tag birds, we hope to increase our depth of migration and dispersal knowledge. The better we can understand how birds are moving around, the more likely it is that we can make sure to conserve areas we identify as important to those birds as they migrate and disperse.