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The US Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) has experienced some of the highest rates of grassland loss in North America over a time that coincides with dramatic declines in grassland songbird populations yet increasing abundance of most grassland-nesting duck species except for northern pintail. To provide more insight into this contradiction, we propose to capitalize on long-term databases to evaluate how a key population driver nest survival for North American ducks has responded to system changes in the region including landscape and climatic factors. Outcomes of these analyses will contribute to testing primary conservation planning assumptions for the PPJV a vital component of the PPJV Strategic Habitat Conservation...
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Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center! Here you can find information resulting from a wide variety of surveys conducted by RMBO and its partners. Users can query out count data, occupancy results, density results, and generate maps of survey locations. You may want to read the Usage Tips for information and tips on running queries. If you’re a manager and wondering how you might be able to use this information please visit our Using Estimates page for more information. The Rocky Mountain Avian Data Center is designed to provide information for specific questions and therefore works best when users select multiple filters for a query.
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 a statewide bird conservation partnership, 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 Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs). This BCR-based landbird monitoring program uses a spatially-balanced sampling design with the BCR as the sampling frame and stratification by land management boundaries and eco-regional attributes. The Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) sample design allows inferences about avian...
This region-wide coordinated bird monitoring program, supported by state, federal, tribal, nongovernmental organizations, and a statewide bird conservation partnership, 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 second year of funding to augment sampling in BCR10 Montana, and to expand our efforts in Idaho as part of an emerging bird conservation partnership, within traditionally under-sampled landscapes to enhance our ability to make robust inference to bird populations on grassland, shrublands, and riparian systems....
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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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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Migratory birds may be hit especially hard by climate change – particularly waterbirds that depend on wetlands as resting and feeding sites during their journey between breeding and non-breeding grounds. California’s Central Valley and the interior basins of southeastern Oregon and northeastern California provide some of the most critical wetlands resources to migratory waterbirds in the western U.S. However, these wetlands rely heavily on snow pack and precipitation for water supply, both of which have already decreased due to climate change. Of further concern is the fact that drought conditions resulting from climate change could exacerbate existing water allocation issues in the region. Researchers are examining...
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The Idaho Bird Inventory and Survey (IBIS) is a plan to monitor all birds (waterbirds, shorebirds, waterfowl, and landbirds) throughout the state in a coordinated, standardized manner. Conservation and management of Idaho’s birds depends on adequate monitoring information. Monitoring information is required by legislative and land/wildlife management agency mandates as well as a host of forest plans, ecoregional plans, preserve management plans, and state wildlife action plans. It is important to monitor bird populations not only because their conservation is important in its own right, with a high level of legal, scientific, and public concern, but also because birds are useful indicators of environmental health....
SWAMP provides a tool for wildlife management stakeholders to predict the effects of landscape changes on populations of foragers, specifically focused on waterfowl and other migratory birds. Specifically, we have developed SWAMP as a spatially-explicit agent based model to determine the carrying capacity and energy budgets of waterfowl foraging on moist-soil managed wetlands and flooded riceland during winter in the Central Valley (CV), with a goal to extend the application of SWAMP to other regions and species. SWAMP models the time-budget, foraging activities, and metabolic state of each bird individually throughout the season. While the rules governing patch selection and foraging behavior are user-defined (e.g....
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Robust assessments of nesting periods and durations for many grassland-nesting birds in the Great Plains are lacking. The timing of management practices (e.g., grazing, haying, mowing, burning) will invariably have different benefits or impacts to different guilds of birds. Our goal is to inform decisions about timing of management practices with research to provide an improved quantification and understanding of contemporary nesting season patterns for grassland birds. Results from this project could aid program managers through improved assessments of tradeoffs from the timing of management actions for various priority birds in the Great Plains.
The baseline map of the Butte Basin, the representative basin from the Central Valley, was generated first by delineating the extent of the landscape to be modeled, in agreement with the basin boundaries identified by the Central Valley Joint Venture.The Butte Basin (CV) encompasses a region approximately 44km x 64 km, and the map used contains 10,698 individual habitat patches and 179,964 acres of possible foreageable area. Patch habitat types were identified by a combination of USDA CropScape data (to identify agricultural habitat patches including rice and corn) and other local mapping data made available through collaboration with USGS. Habitat flood schedules were generated using the Water Evaluation and Planning...
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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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...
map background search result map search result map Species Adaptations to Climate Change: Baseline Data for Grassland, Sagebrush, and Riparian - Associated Landbirds in Bird Conservation Region 10 BCR10 in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, 1km Grid, Integrated Bird Monitoring by Conservation Region Assessing the Impacts of Drought on Migratory Waterbirds in Key Conservation Regions of the Western U.S. BCR10 in Idaho, 1km Grid, Integrated Bird Monitoring by Conservation Region 2013 Annual Report: Species Adaptations to Climate Change: Grassland, Sagebrush, and Riparian-associated Landbirds in Bird Conservation Region 10 Integrated Bird Monitoring by Conservation Region database 2013 Annual Report: Idaho Bird Inventory and Survey (IBIS) Webinar: Demonstration of the Avian Data Center at Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory 2012 Idaho Bird Conservation Partnership Development, Workshop 2013 Idaho Bird Conservation Partnership Development, Workshop Assessing phenology of grassland-nesting birds to inform timing of grassland management Evaluating patterns of long-term system change and demographic response for grassland nesting ducks in the US Prairie Pothole Region Climate Change Habitat Scenarios for the Central Valley of California Spatially explicit Waterbird Agent-based Model Program (SWAMP), Version 2.0 Climate Change Habitat Scenarios for the Central Valley of California Assessing the Impacts of Drought on Migratory Waterbirds in Key Conservation Regions of the Western U.S. Spatially explicit Waterbird Agent-based Model Program (SWAMP), Version 2.0 Species Adaptations to Climate Change: Baseline Data for Grassland, Sagebrush, and Riparian - Associated Landbirds in Bird Conservation Region 10 BCR10 in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, 1km Grid, Integrated Bird Monitoring by Conservation Region Integrated Bird Monitoring by Conservation Region database 2013 Annual Report: Idaho Bird Inventory and Survey (IBIS) Webinar: Demonstration of the Avian Data Center at Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory 2012 Idaho Bird Conservation Partnership Development, Workshop 2013 Idaho Bird Conservation Partnership Development, Workshop 2013 Annual Report: Species Adaptations to Climate Change: Grassland, Sagebrush, and Riparian-associated Landbirds in Bird Conservation Region 10 BCR10 in Idaho, 1km Grid, Integrated Bird Monitoring by Conservation Region Evaluating patterns of long-term system change and demographic response for grassland nesting ducks in the US Prairie Pothole Region Assessing phenology of grassland-nesting birds to inform timing of grassland management