[tn-bird] Shorebird Count Info

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,ARBIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, LABIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,marvdavs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:03:42 EDT

                  Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture
            Coordinated Shorebird Counts
                   10-11 August and 14-15 September 2002

For the past three years, biologists and birders like yourself have
participated in coordinated shorebird counts aimed at increasing our
understanding of shorebird populations and habitat needs in the
Mississippi Alluvial Valley and West Gulf Coastal Plain regions (MAV/WGCP).
In 2002, the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture will again organize a
volunteer-based coordinated survey to inventory shorebird populations
utilizing the MAV/WGCP.  These "snapshots" of population distribution and
abundance will be combined with data being collected through research
projects (e.g., turnover rate [University of Arkansas] and food density
[University of Memphis] across several locations and habitat types to
ensure adequate habitat is being provided for birds migrating through the
MAV/WGCP during fall migration.

As you prepare for another southward shorebird migration season, please
consider lending your interest and expertise to ongoing monitoring efforts
in the MAV/WGCP. Dates for this year's counts will be 10-11 August and
14-15 September.  We ask that you count on at least one of the two days for
each month.  However, as the accuracy of the data increases with each
observation, we urge you to report data from all of your shorebird outings.
Remember to report sites with zero birds, for this is important information
in terms of analyzing distributions across the landscape.

Data entry can be accomplished directly through the Lower Mississippi
Valley Joint Venture web site
(www.lmvjv.org/shorebird).  This database is intended to: (1) assist
researchers and conservation planners in establishing biologically based
conservation objectives that ensure adequate habitat for shorebirds; as
well as to (2) provide the birding community a web-based resource for
sharing shorebird information.  For those who entered data last year, look
for new editing and querying capabilities on the web site.

If success can be measured by the number of sites surveyed (n = 134) then
this monitoring effort has already been extremely successful.  However, to
reap the full benefit of these efforts we need to continue and expand our
monitoring efforts.  As such, we ask that you continue to monitor existing
sites as well as to look for new areas to count.  Thanks in advance for
your support!


Sincerely,


R. Randy Wilson
Science Coordinator
Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2524 South Frontage Road, Suite C
Vicksburg, MS 39180
phone: 601.629.6626
fax: 601.636.9541
email: randy_wilson@xxxxxxx




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