The Great Basin Bird Observatory is an ornithological nonprofit organization based in Reno, Nevada.
Founded in 1997, its mission is to conserve birds and their habitats in Nevada and adjoining regions through partnerships, applied research, and education.
The Great Basin Bird Observatory was founded as a non-partisan conservation science organization.
For the atlas project, field work was completed between 1997 and 2000, and the results were published by the University of Nevada Press in 2007.
Research projects conducted by the Great Basin Bird Observatory include several telemetry tracking projects of elf owl, pinyon jay, and greater sage-grouse, and models of distribution, population densities, and habitat use for a large variety of birds of the Intermountain West and Southwest.