About Us

The YardMap Network is a citizen science project designed to cultivate a richer understanding of bird habitat, for both professional scientists and people concerned with their local environments. We collect data by asking individuals across the country to literally draw maps of their backyards, parks, farms, favorite birding locations, schools, and gardens. We connect you with your landscape details and provide tools for you to make better decisions about how to manage landscapes sustainably.

YardMap is also the world’s first interactive citizen scientist social network. When you join you are instantly connected to the work of like-minded individuals in your neighborhood, and across the country. Together you can become a conservation community focused on sharing strategies, maps, and successes to build more bird habitat.

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The YardMap is an idea that was developed at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and funded in 2009 by the National Science Foundation to help fulfill the mission of the Citizen Science Program. PI Janis Dickinson is Faculty Director of Citizen Science at the Cornell Lab; collaborating researchers and co-PIs include Cornell faculty in a range of departments and colleges: Marianne Krasny (Natural Resources), Nancy Trautmann (The Cornell Lab), Nancy Wells (Human Ecology), & Connie Yuan (Communications and Computer Science).

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0917487. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.