[TN-Bird] Expert Birders Sought as Volunteers for Audubon/USFWS Shorebird Survey
- From: "Shay, Sheila" <sheila.shay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: " (tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:01:04 -0500
See the article below.
Sheila Shay
Newsletter Editor, Cumberland-Harpeth Audubon Society
1704 A Primrose Ave
Nashville, TN 37212
Home: 615-298-5154
Work: 615-343-2392
e-mail: Sheila.shay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Sheila.shay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: chapterleaders@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:chapterleaders@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 6:17 PM
To: Shay, Sheila
Subject: Expert Birders Sought as Volunteers for Audubon/USFWS Shorebird Survey
Expert Birders Sought as Volunteers for Audubon/USFWS Shorebird Survey
Dear Chapter Leaders,
Your assistance in forwarding the message below to expert birders living near
the Wildlife Refuges noted will be much appreciated. This is a wonderful
opportunity to partner with refuges and help migrating birds while also
contributing to Gulf restoration efforts.
Thank you,
Audubon Action
Audubon and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Need Your Help to Survey National
Wildlife Refuges for Migrating Shorebirds.
Because of the Deep Horizon oil catastrophe, much of the gulf coastal
environment, especially bird habitat has been significantly degraded and with
fall migration underway, we are concerned about the use of that habitat by
migrants. Safe shallow-water shorebird and waterfowl habitat is being created
to 'short-stop' southbound migrants in an attempt to prevent some of these
birds from using oiled coastal habitats. As migration has started and the
habitat modifications are underway, USFWS, NRCS, and other entities need to
begin to document whether and how these habitat creation programs are working
and whether birds may also be moving between clean and oiled habitats. Audubon
and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are undertaking a shorebird monitoring
program on a number of National Wildlife Refuges where habitat modifications
have been made to attract shorebirds during migration.
Audubon has been asked by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to identify volunteers
that are proficient in shorebird identification and would be available this
fall to complete shorebird surveys of a handful of selected refuges in your
state. As the fall migration is well underway, we would like to quickly
identify qualified individuals, i.e. experienced birders only and ideally with
good shorebird ID skills, to conduct these surveys immediately to collect a
good baseline data set for this fall. We will be using a survey protocol that
Audubon has developed to count birds and monitor habitat use by migrant
shorebirds as well as all other birds encountered. Data will be stored in
eBird, where it will be immediately available to the public, Audubon, USFWS,
and other federal and state agencies for analyses. We will use either a
"traveling" or "stationary" protocol in eBird to do these surveys.
We need experienced birders who would be available to do these surveys twice a
month from now until the end of October, or perhaps into early November.
Ideally we would want folks who are relatively close to the refuges in question
(see list below) so that transportation to and from the refuge will not be an
issue, and so housing is not a factor. If you are interested in this exciting
opportunity to participate in this Audubon/Fish & Wildlife Service partnership
shorebird survey on National Wildlife Refuges, please follow the link below to
a short registration form (different from the Audubon gulf volunteer form that
you may have already filled out) that you can fill out to express your interest
and tell us a little bit more about yourself to assist in our selection of
volunteers.
www.audubonaction.org/refugesurvey<http://eidertrk.audubon.org/trk/r.emt?h=www.audubonaction.org/refugesurvey&t=qcvz&ek&m>
Thank you for your interest, we look forward to hearing from you. We will
collect registrations and select volunteers based on experience, location and
availability. We will select a small team 5-10 per refuge and we may need
several alternates. We hope to get volunteers out doing surveys within the next
2 weeks.
For questions or more information please send an email to
audubonaction@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:audubonaction@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Refuges surveys will take place on:
Louisiana
Southwest Louisiana Refuge Complex (Lacassine and Cameron Prairie)
Central Louisiana Complex (Grand Cote, possibly Catahoula)
Bayou Cocodrie (part of St. Catherine's Creek complex)
Red River
Arkansas
Holla Bend
Bald Knob
Tennessee
Reelfoot (part of West Tennessee Refuge complex)
Cross Creeks
Tennessee
Mississippi
Coldwater (part of North MS Refuge complex)
Theodore Roosevelt complex (Yazoo, Panther Swamp, Morgan Brake)
St. Catherine Creek
Alabama
Wheeler
Florida
St. Marks
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