The Cowra Woodland Birds Program monitors woodland bird populations through quarterly bird surveys, as well as engaging in habitat restoration aimed at locally declining and threatened birds.
Initiated in 2001, with the assistance of BirdLife Southern NSW, to address concerns that woodland birds are declining in rural landscapes in the Cowra district, it is one of the three longest-running woodland bird monitoring programs in Australia. Until 2024 it was completely volunteer-run and has attracted competitive grants to assist with establishment and a number of revegetation projects.
The survey data are valued by researchers for the science-based methodology, the continuity, frequency and duration of the surveys, and that nearly 70% of survey sites are on private land not usually accessible by surveyors. The survey data has been used in a number of published scientific articles, and feeds into the national Threatened Species Index.