RESEARCH AND MONITORING COLLABORATIONS: USING MAPS TO ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF AVIAN ECOLOGY

IBP collaborates with land managers and researchers in government, academia, and elsewhere to put MAPS data to use in understanding avian ecology and developing conservation solutions. Below we feature selected collaborations that have contributed to building the largest most geographically widespread landbird mark-recapture database in North America.

Federal Agencies

US Forest Service - MAPS monitoring has been implemented on many national forests. We provide the results of 17 years (1992-2008) of MAPS monitoring on six forests in USFS Pacific Northwest Region Six here.

Department of Defense - DoD have supported MAPS monitoring on DoD installations since 1993 in partnership with DoD Partners in Flight.

National Park Service - providing long-term (since 1990) monitoring data and analyses to Yosemite and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

US Fish and Wildlife Service - MAPS operates on a number of USFWS properties throughout the continent.

US Geologic Survey - USGS has provided funding for several small projects including the development of the MAPS database query interface found here which is soon to be updated to include more recent data.

Monitoring and Research Organizations

Avian Knowledge Network - The goal of the AKN is to understand the patterns and dynamics of bird populations across the Western Hemisphere

Point Reyes Bird Observatory - IBP collaborates with PRBO to port the MAPS dataset to the Avian Knowledge Network.

Klamath Bird Observatory and Redwood Sciences Laboratory - KBO, RSL and IBP (and other MAPS operators) have combined datasets for the analysis of MAPS data towards providing management guidelines and information on birds and climate/weather for the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (Research Prospectus).

Academic Institutes

The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center - IBP in collaboration with Peter Marra of SMBC and the Betts Forest Ecology Laboratory (Oregon State University) developed a monitoring and research proposal to resolve Wood Thrush source-sink dynamics in the Midwestern states.

UCLA Center for Tropical Studies - IBP have collaborated with the CTS on a number of projects including feather collection, avian influenza sampling, and West Nile Virus studies.

McGill Bird Observatory - researching patterns consistent with BergMann's Rule.

San Francisco State University - looking for geographic range shift.

University of Oklahoma - resolving Painted Bunting migration patterns.

For further information, please email Phil Nott or phone (415) 663-2050.

An IBP representative can also be contacted at our main office:

P.O. Box 1346; Point Reyes Station, CA 94956-1346; USA.
Telephone: (415) 663-1436 FAX: (415) 663-9482.

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