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Our knowledge of avian behaviors during the non-breeding period still lags behind that of the breeding season, but the last decade has witnessed a proliferation in research that has yielded significant progress in understanding migration patterns of North American birds. And, although the great majority of migration research has historically been conducted in the eastern half of the continent, there has been much recent progress on aspects of avian migration in the West. In particular, expanded use of techniques such as radar, plasma metabolites, mist-netting, count surveys, stable isotopes, genetic data, and animal tracking, coupled with an increase in multi-investigator collaborations, have all contributed to...
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This region-wide coordinated bird monitoring program, supported by state, federal, tribal, nongovernmental organizations, and two statewide bird conservation partnerships, is designed to provide spatially-referenced baseline data for science-based biological planning and conservation design for the Great Northern LCC and its partners that is directly comparable with other landscapes and BCRs. We are requesting a third year of funding to continue sampling in BCR10 Montana and Idaho to enhance our ability to make robust inference to bird populations on grassland, shrublands, and riparian systems. These data currently are being used by project partners to develop spatially-explicit models that will allow assessment...
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This region-wide coordinated bird monitoring program, supported by state, federal, tribal, nongovernmental organizations, and two statewide bird conservation partnerships, is designed to provide spatially-referenced baseline data for science-based biological planning and conservation design for the Great Northern LCC and its partners that is directly comparable with other landscapes and BCRs. We are requesting a fourth year of funding to continue sampling in the Montana and Idaho portions of BCR10 to enhance our ability to make robust inference to bird populations on grassland, shrublands, and riparian systems. These data currently are being used by project partners to improve distribution maps (see Appendix I)...
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Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO), in conjunction with its partners, conducted landbird monitoring in all or part of Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) 10 (Northern Rockies), 11 (Prairie Potholes), 16 (Southern Rockies/Colorado Plateau), 17 (Badlands and Prairies), 18 (Shortgrass Prairie), 19 (Central Mixed-grass Prairie) and 34 (Sierra Madre Occidental) ) in 2011. This project used a spatially balanced sampling design and a survey protocol implemented in portions of 12 states as part of a program entitled “Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions” (IMBCR). The IMBCR design allows inferences to avian species occurrence and population sizes from local to BCR scales, facilitating conservation at local...
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