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The Avian Knowledge Alliance (AKA) was established in 2006 by a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to take advantage of their unique capacities and roles within the bird conservation arena. The AKA is dedicated to collecting, caretaking, and communicating knowledge gained from the study of birds. At the core of AKA is the Avian Knowledge Network (AKN), a sophisticated data management and sharing system designed so that "no data are left behind." The AKA promotes and helps design coordinated monitoring projects, facilitates data contribution to the AKN, solicits feedback from managers and other stakeholders on what information and data visualization tools are most urgently needed, and helps ensure that important conservation information reaches intended audiences. While international in scope, currently this new alliance has members throughout the United States and Canada.
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