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Tag: Charlotte

  • Estimating diversity and productivity

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    The area where we are banding birds is along a creek surrounded by shortgrass prairie. Some of the birds we catch are associated with the riparian vegetation (growing along streams) and some are associated with the grasslands. We are interesting in knowing the numbers of species breeding in the area (diversity) and the well as…

  • Before Banding Birds

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    Even though there have been banding sessions since I was there, I thought I would post about setting up the MAPs station. Getting the MAPs station up and running took a lot of work. First, all of the old locations of nets had to be found. We searched the area for nails with tags on…

  • Nets, nets on the range

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    Amy Briggs (pomona ’10) and I will be running a Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) station and conducting point counts out in Valley County, Montana over the course of the summer. With any luck, the weather will be on the sunnier (i.e. not rainy) side so that we’ll have more time to spend in…

  • Little trailer on the prairie

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    Yesterday Charlotte Chang’10, Max and I headed off to Northern Montana. Charlotte will be working on a project examining prairie bird diversity and productivity in the shortgrass prairie of northern Montana. This is the third summer a Pomona student has come out here to work on this project. Charlotte is following in the footsteps of…