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Tag: MAPS

  • The Last Banding

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    The MAPS (Monitoring Avian Survival and Productivity) protocol has a set range of dates for bird banding. As I stated before, in the last few banding periods (periods 8-10 to be specific), juvenile birds should predominate. MAPS has the overall goal of assessing survivorship and breeding rates of resident birds, and as such, its protocol…

  • a Flicker of a catch

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    Last Wednesday (8/22 to be more precise) was our second to last banding day. The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) which is the entity overseeing all MAPS banding stations stated that in periods 8 – 10, the young of the year will predominate in the catch. What this means—or should mean—for us is that we…

  • 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…

  • MAPS and a PSA (acronym soup!)

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    Last Friday, John, Nina, and I did our very first banding run at the Canyon Creek MAPS site. Just as a rehash, a MAPS station is a bird-banding station where you catch wild birds in mist nets and look at their physical traits to help assess survivorship and productivity of avian populations. John and Sabrina…

  • 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…