Urban bird conservation: presenting stakeholder-specific arguments for the development of bird-friendly cities

# The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Following the call from theUnitedNations Convention on Biological Diversity BCities & Biodiversity Outlook ^ project to better preserve urban biodiversity, this paper presents stakeholder-specific statements for bird conservation in city environments. Based upon the current urban bird literature we focus upon habitat fragmentation, limited habitat availability, lack of the native vegetation and vegetation structure as the most important challenges facing bird conser-vation in cities. We follow with an overview of the stakeholders in cities, and identify six mai