AVIAN INVENTORY PROGRAM

Gathering baseline information on existing biological resources is a critical step in the formulation of long-term monitoring strategies. To help decide how to best allocate scarce resouces to avian monitoring efforts, land managers often require detailed information about the current diversity, distribution, and abundance of birds that depend on the lands they manage. Accordingly, IBP has established its Avian Inventory Program, which assists biologists and land managers overseeing national parks and other public lands by designing and implementing scientifcally sound avian inventory projects.

To date our avian inventory efforts include projects at:

• Devils Postpile National Monument
• Lewis and Clark National Historical Park
• Mount Rainier National Park
• North Cascades National Park
• Olympic National Park
• San Juan Island National Historical Park
• Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park
• Yosemite National Park
• Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine

More information and results from our avian inventory projects in Pacific Northwest national parks are available here.

We have also collaborated with National Parks in the Pacific Northwest and the Sierra Nevada to develop and implement long-term bird monitoring protocols.

Our work involves collaborating with agency personnel on all aspects of inventory and monitoring projects, including:

• study design
• database design
• data collection
• data analysis
• report writing
• publication of results
• review of existing programs

More detailed information about our avian inventory and longterm monitoring projects in national parks of the Pacific Northwest is available here.

Public or private land managers interested in collaborating with IBP to develop or implement avian inventory or monitoring projects are invited to contact Rodney Siegel.

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