| | Accession Number | 5003056 |
| | Title | Integrated monitoring of North American bird populations |
| | Project Description | Although there are dozens of ongoing programs in North America that attempt to monitor bird |
| | populations, information varies greatly in quality and there is no centralized mechanism for |
| | accessing or distributing all the available information. One especially important database, which is |
| | of particular importance for gamebird management, is the bird-banding database at Patuxent |
| | Wildlife Research Center. This database is of limited use because it is hierarchically structured, |
| | lending itself to batch jobs and high labor and maintenance costs. The overall goal of this project |
| | is to improve the migratory bird management capabilities of resource management agencies by |
| | streamlining operational systems for management of bird population data and by making all the |
| | available information maximally accessible to users. Key objectives in meeting the goal are (1) to |
| | redesign and re-engineer the Bird-Banding Laboratory so that the great majority of data import and |
| | export functions are electronic and a new client server, relational database is accessible by users |
| | through the Internet; (2) to build an integrated network of North American bird population |
| | monitoring programs, linked through an electronic center containing relational databases also |
| | accessible through the Internet, along with analytical software packages for the convenience of the |
| | clients. Initial emphasis will be on the Breeding Bird Survey, Christmas Bird Count, colonial |
| | waterbird databases, and passerine point count databases. Incorporation of non-DOI databases |
| | into the data center will be achieved through a series of partnership agreements entailing varying |
| | levels of data management support by Patuxent, depending upon the data management |
| | capabilities of the partner. Support will be provided for development of monitoring programs for taxa |
| | not presently covered and for improvement of presently deficient programs. |
| | Keywords | bandmanager, bird banding, bird conservation node, breeding bird atlas, breeding bird survey, |
| | christmas bird count, colonial waterbirds, point counts, population databases, population trends, |
| | Principal | Bruce Peterjohn, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: bruce_peterjohn@usgs.gov; John |
| | Investigators | Tautin, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: john_tautin@usgs.gov; , USGS Patuxent |
| | Wildlife Research Center: ; , USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: ; |
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