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FW: PIF Migration Monitoring Spring 2002



Time for another spring migration monitoring season to begin! Visit the Gulf
Coast Bird Observatory site at: http://www.gcbo.org  to learn more about
this monitoring program developed by Partner in Flight. Click on 'research'
and then 'migration monitoring'. Use your birding skills to add to this
southeastern database on migratory birds and their movements. Pass this
along to others you feel are qualified and would be interested. This is an
excellent program for bird clubs and natural resource managers to initiate
(with qualified volunteers) at city, county, state and national parks,
greenways, refuges, state gamelands, national forests and Audubon Important
Bird Areas on a once a week basis. The spring count period starts March
20th.....

Mark Johns
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
NC Coordinator
Partners in Flight and Breeding Bird Survey
johnsme@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
Subject: PIF Migration Monitoring Spring 2002


TO:
 PIF Migration Monitoring Participants

FROM:
 Cecilia Riley       criley@gcbo.org or 979-480-0999

DATE:
 March 19, 2002

SUBJECT:
 Spring Season Migration Monitoring Counts Begin 20 March-1 June 2002

Finally, it's time to think spring migration! Though we have had a
relatively mild winter here in the Southeast, I know we are all anxious for
spring. Not so much for better weather, but for the excitement that only
birds in migration can bring. So dust off your binoculars and get into the
field for Spring Migration Monitoring. I hope you will all participate with
us again this year. As before, the goal is to obtain data on first landfall
in spring, area of dispersal for migrants, identify species-specific
migration pathways, density comparisons at multiple sites and between years,
identification of 'hot-spots' and their motility between years and habitats
used for stopover and for corridors between coastal and interior breeding
sites.

Assurance of the program's success will require several monitored sites in
each state of the region. I hope that each of you will select a site (and/or
get folks to commit to several sites) in your local area. The data
collection protocol, designed by SE PIF monitoring gurus, is easy and it's a
great excuse to abandon your desk for a couple of field hours a week.

NEW THIS SEASON!

The Migration Monitoring program is online. Now you can go to the GCBO web
site to print a copy of the field datasheet and you can enter your data
online. Before the season gets started go to www.gcbo.org and check out the
forms at "Migration Monitoring Data Entry". Then call or email (preferred)
if you have questions. Though we are still working to make the page nicer to
look at, the online data entry pages are easy to use. I hope you'll give it
a try this season. If you have participated before, your previous year's
data are already entered and you have been assigned an id number. To find
your id number click on the button titled "Look up ID Numbers". Write down
your id number and location id number then copy those to the entry form.
Follow instructions to add bird data from there. Be sure you don't leave any
blanks in the date field.

We are looking forward to your participation!

Cecilia M. Riley
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
103 West HWY 332
Lake Jackson, TX 77566
Voice: (979) 480-0999
Fax:    (979) 480-0777
CRILEY@GCBO.ORG
WWW.GCBO.ORG