[TN-Bird] TOS announces 2004 Conservation and Research funding
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Birdchat <birdchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 07:35:14 -0800 (PST)
Hello folks,
As the chair of the Tennessee Ornithological Society's Conservation
and Research Funding Committe, I am happy to announce the recipient's
of the 2004 awards.
More information on this funding, including how to apply for 2005 can
be found on the Tennessee Ornithological Society's website
www.tnbirds.org
2004 TOS grants.
Katherine Goodpasture Memorial Grant:
David Vogt has banded migratory birds at Whigg Meadow in Cherokee
National Forest since September 1998. This project has logged over
2590 volunteer hours. The information collected during this project
quantifies the use of high elevation clearings in the Unicoi
Mountains and provides useful information to U.S. Forest Service in
making land management decisions. Documentation of the importance of
these high elevation clearings as important stop-over sites for
migrating birds makes effective management policies possible.
This year the Conservation and Research Funding Award has been split
between two different projects.
Jim Giocomo for initiating a Monitoring Avian Productivity and
Survivorship (MAPS) station, and to continue banding grassland birds
in fall and winter at Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge in east Knox
County. Grassland birds have been declining at greater rates over
the past 30 years than any other group of avian species across North
America (BBS data, 1966-1996). One of the main causes of these
population declines is the dramatic decrease of native grasslands
through conversion of land for agriculture and suppression of fire
allowing community succession from grassland to forest. Significant
land areas at SIWR are in the early stages of being converted from
agriculture and forage production to native warm-season grasses
maintained by prescribed fire. To reverse the negative population
trends it is imperative to understand how this habitat restoration
and management impacts the distribution and productivity of grassland
birds. Monitoring bird populations in the breeding and winter
seasons though banding efforts could provided much needed information
about the impacts of these land management activities.
Sam deMent, MD. To band American Kestrels in the Chattanooga area
and Sequatchie Valley, TN and Western Piedmont and Greenwood, South
Carolina. Researchers will also remove tail feathers for use in
stable isotope feather analysis in order to more reliably distinguish
migrant vs. resident populations during the wintering period. Once
the wintering population of American Kestrel is separated into
migrants and residents, comparison of other field data such as body
weight, wing cord length, habitat selection, and sex preference for
varied habitats can be made. Comparison of migrants vs. residents
for different sites east and west of the Southern Appalachians in
similar habitats can also be made. Stable isotope delineation of
nestling American Kestrels in both study sites from nest box
placements serve as controls to compare with migrants. Furthermore,
foreign band encounters/ retrap data can be compared to the blinded
stable isotope determinations
Sincerely,
Charlie Muise
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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer." -Edward Abbey
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