MAPS Chat

MAPS Chat is a periodic newsletter highlighting results and applications of MAPS monitoring. Current and historical releases are available for download in pdf format.

Spring 2013

Highlights include:

• Welcome new MAPS operators
• El Niño drives Swainson's Thrush survival rate
• MAPS Bandathon
• MAPS Bander Profile: Bev Smith
• RESOURCES FOR MAPS BIRD BANDERS: Coding tracts in active molt

Historical MAPS Chats:

Spring 2012

• Feather growth rates related to molting strategy
• MAPS Bander Profile: Rich and Brenda Keith
• Welcome new MAPS operators
• RESOURCES FOR MAPS BIRD BANDERS: Using molt code 'A'

Spring 2011

• Full Life-cycle Monitoring, Vital Rates, and Effective Bird Conservation
• Using Data Basin to publish spatially explicit MAPS results
• Welcome new MAPS operators
• RESOURCES FOR MAPS BIRD BANDERS: Suggestions for improving data submissions

Spring 2010

• MAPS and the conservation of common species
• Using MAPS data to inform public land management in the Pacific Northwest
• MAPS operators provide samples for avian infectious disease studies: Updates from UCLA
• Welcome new MAPS operators
• RESOURCES FOR MAPS BIRD BANDERS: Obtaining open-wing images of birds for analysis of molt and plumage state
• MAPS data yield cutting-edge science for managing bird populations
• IBP staff teach bird banding classes

Spring 2009

• Thank you MAPS operators! - Fifteen years of MAPS data and over one million records are now verified and being analyzed to inform climate change adaptation strategies
• New research on causes of population declines
• IBP offers bird banding classes
• MAPS in the tropical Pacific
• Join our flu sampling efforts
• Welcome new MAPS operators
• Goodbye to staff biologist Amy Finfera
• Molt-migration studies in Arizona and Mexico
• Upcoming MAPS report in Bird Populations

Spring 2007

Spring 2004
      Color Images used in Spring 2004 MAPS Chat

Spring 2002

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