[TN-Bird] Partners in Flight Point Counts continuing in 2004
- From: "Michael Roedel" <Michael.Roedel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:53:59 -0500
We are gearing up for this year's Partners in Flight Point Counts at
more than 40 locations across Tennessee.
Point counts began in the state in 1993 on a handful of sites across
the state and have been conducted in every year since. A few dozen TOS
members participated by laying out routes and conducting point counts on
Wildlife Management Areas, State Parks, State Forests, and other managed
lands. That effort grew to a peak of more than 2,000 points on 40 areas
being monitored across the state in 1999. We now have more than 125,000
individual Tennessee bird records from these counts that have been
entered in the USGS Patuxent Point Count database.
The information contained in the point count database has been utilized
by a variety of agencies and organizations: to make bird conservation
based land management decisions at the local level, to justify funding
requests from granting entities, to examine research needs and
possibilities on public lands, to fuel long term plans for ecosystem
management, to looking a relative densities of birds, and to answer a
number of other questions about what birds are where and using what
habitats during the breeding season. Now these data are being used to
estimate actual numbers of birds across wide areas!
It is certainly a lot of work to gather all of this data. And we are
very grateful for all of the thousands of hours that volunteers have
provided to this effort. If you are interested in participating in
point counts this year, or have questions about the counts, please
contact me. The 2004 data forms are available upon request. I plan to
make these (along with reports of past work) available on the web in the
near future and will announce that availability as soon as it happens.
Mike
Michael Roedel, State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747 Nashville, TN 37204
voice (615) 781-6653
fax (615) 781-6654
michael.roedel@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.state.tn.us/twra
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