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Wildlife Monitoring Programs Web Links



I thought I'd share this with everyone, and see if anyone has any favorites
to add.

This is my running list of web links specifically about MONITORING PROGRAMS
for wildlife and other natural resources management links.  If anyone has
any species specific monitoring links, please let me know.  For some of the
more understudies and obscure groups there is not much information out
there.

I will post a revised copy on my web site.  I am also trying to compile an
Excel spreadsheet of these programs listed by date to make it easier to
remember International Migratory Bird Day, National Moth Night, etc.


Wildlife Monitoring Programs Web Links

GENERAL

ENATURE, all Audubon society guides on line http://enature.com

Nature Serve Explorer   http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/

Wildlife Conservation Unit (great links!)   http://www.wildcru.org/

USGS Designing a Monitoring Program http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/powcase/

USGS Biology Programs   http://biology.usgs.gov/pub_aff/usgsbio.html

US Fish and Wildlife Service    http://www.fws.gov/

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center   http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center   http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/

USGS home page  http://www.usgs.gov/

The Nature Conservancy  http://nature.org/

Journey North   http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

Fish and Wildlife Service Critter Crafts (nest box plans, etc)
            http://midwest.fws.gov/marktwain/kids/crittercrafts.htm

Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.shtml

Tree of Life Web Project    http://tolweb.org/tree/

Critter Crossings - linking habitats and reducing road kill
            http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/wildlifecrossings/

MAMMALS

North American Bear Center  http://www.bear.org/homepage.html

Pitfall Trap Guidelines http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/reader/2569

White-tailed Deer Management
http://conservation.state.mo.us/landown/wild/deer/

Carnivore scent stations
    http://www.greatplains.org/npresource/othrdata/Carnivor/CARNIVOR.HTM

Interpreting Carnivore scent stations
    http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1999/scent/scent.htm

Mammal Traps    http://www.tomahawklivetrap.com/

Bat Conservation International  http://www.batcon.org/

Wildlife Conservation Unit (great links!)   http://www.wildcru.org/


HERPS

Partners In Amphibian and Reptile Conservation  http://www.parcplace.org/

North American Amphibian Monitoring http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/naamp/

USGS Amphibian Monitoring Page
    http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/amphibian_monitoring.html

National Wildlife Federation FROGWATCH USA  http://frogwatch.org/

Scientific Amphibian
http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/sciam.shtml

Techniques used in Reptile and Amphibian Monitoring
            http://www.parcplace.org/education/techniques/index.htm


BIRDS

National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Counts
http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/index.html

Birdsource (Great Backyard Bird Count, Project Feeder Watch, Ebird, Pigeon
Watch, Warbler Watch,
Irruptive Bird Survey)
        http://www.birds.cornell.edu/whaterdo_citizenscience.html

USGS National Point Count database  http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/point/

Gulf Coast Bird Observatory http://gcbo.org/

International Migratory Bird Day    http://birds.fws.gov/imbd.html

MAPS Bird Banding   http://www.birdpop.org/maps/htm

North American Breeding Bird Survey http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/

The Birdhouse Network   http://birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/

Finding and Monitoring Bird Nest
    http://www.bsc-eoc.org/national/nw_finding.html

Hawk Watch International    http://www.hawkwatch.org/

World Bird Count    http://eco.goo.ne.jp/wbc_e/

The Big Sit http://members.aol.com/nhbirdclub/bigsit.htm

International Shorebird Survey  http://www.im.nbs.gov/iss/iss.html

National Audubon Society    http://www.audubon.org/

American Bird Conservancy   http://www.abcbirds.org/

Cornell Lab of Ornithology  http://birds.cornell.edu/

Partners In Flight  http://www.partnersinflight.org/

US Fish and Wildlife Service    http://birds.fws.gov/

USGS Bird Monitoring in North America
http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/birds.html

Backyard Bird Problems  http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/by/byprob.html

Fish and Wildlife Service: Backyard Bird Problems
http://library.fws.gov/Bird_Publications/prob.html

BUTTERFLIES

NABA Butterfly Counts   http://www.naba.org/counts.html

USGS Butterfly Monitoring Project
http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/butterflies.html

Monarch Watch   http://www.monarchwatch.org/

Monarch Larva Monitoring Program    http://www.mlmp.org

The Butterfly Web Site  http://butterflywebstie.com/

DRAGONFLIES

North America Dragonfly Migration Project
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~dbarber/migrant/mig.html

Distribution of Dragonflies (state by state)
http://www.afn.org/~iori/nalist.html

The Dragonfly Website   http://www.dragonflywebsite.com/

Digital Dragonflies http://www.dragonflies.org/Welcome.html



INSECTS

Moth Images of North America

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/mothsusa.htm

National Moth Night http://www.insectline.co.uk/nmn2001.htm

Firefly Flash Pattern cheat sheet
             http://www.geocities.com/birdrangerbb/firefly.jpg

Bug Bios - Entomological Database of cool bugs
http://www.bugbios.com/entophiles

Canadian insect database
             http://collections.ic.gc.ca/biodiversity/database.html

The Diptera Site
             http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/diptera.htm

Orthoptera Species File http://140.247.119.145/Orthoptera

The Coleoptera Page http://www.coleoptera.org/

OTHERS

Aquatic Mollusk monitoring protocol
    http://www.or.blm.gov/surveyandmanage/SP/Mollusks/acover.htm

Terrestrial Mollusk monitoring protocol
    http://www.or.blm.gov/surveyandmanage/SP/Mollusks/acover.htm

Crayfish Corner http://www.mackers.com/crayfish/

Lotek Fish and Wildlife Monitoring Systems  http://www.lotek.com/

Spider conservation in the United States
    http://www.umich.edu/~esupdate/library/97.03-04/skerl.html

USDA Southern Research Station  http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/

Declining Amphibian Populations Taskforce
http://www.open.ac.uk/daptf/index.htm

Avinet  http://www.avinet.com

Floy Tag    http://www.halcyon.com/floytag

Memphis Net & Twine Co., Inc.   http://www.memphisnet.net

Ben Meadows http://benmeadows.com

Wonderful World of Insects  http://www.earthlife.net/insects/


Brian Bockhahn

Park Ranger

Falls Lake CBC Compiler

Falls Lake State Recreation Area

13304 Creedmoor Road

Wake Forest, NC 27587

919/676-1027

fax 919/

www.ncsparks.net

Brian.Bockhahn@ncmail.net

www.geocities.com/birdrangerbb

cbockhahn4@earthlink.net