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Bird Restoration Monitoring
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From page 159...
... primarily through coating of feathers, Gulf of Mexico (Greenberg and Maldonado, 2006) , ingestion, and egg shell contamination (Leighton, which makes common marsh bird species such as 1993)
From page 160...
... In addition to sea level rise, climate-related drivers that could affect Gulf marsh birds include precipitation patterns, hydrologic and fire regimes, increased temperature, and hurricanes 1 The Gulf of Mexico Avian Monitoring Network (Woodrey et al., 2012)
From page 161...
... hydrologic or tidal fl c, low, restoratiion, although h ing these feature within a restored we es etland there is a high degree of uncertainty with regards o y s com plex would be key to maintaining these to marsh bird response and thus a cr b ritical need to o critic cal marsh bird resourc ces. In add dition, monitor in an adaptive management framework k freshhwater flow r regime can st trongly affect both t (Mitchell et al., 2006 Shriver and Greenberg, 6; d , vege etative structu of foraging habitat and prey ure d 2012)
From page 162...
... acres of functioning sand beach Although construction monitoring may seem habitat for wintering shorebirds." This objective tangential to bird-focused restoration projects, links to metrics such as species richness, avian assessing the creation of habitat for colonial community diversity, and/or a community level nesting waterbirds, solitary nesting shorebirds, integrity index, as compared to some appropriate and secretive marsh birds is critical. Stringent reference data set (see Table II.4)
From page 163...
... The list consists of by birdwatchers, spread across seasons, provides approximately 100 species broadly grouped into guilds, including land birds, marsh birds, pelagic seabirds, raptors, seabirds, shorebirds, wading Birds of Conservation Concern lists, the Audubon birds, and waterfowl (Wilson, 2015) .2 Although Watch List, the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, true Northern Gulf of Mexico pelagic birds, 2 This list is a compilation of a wide variety of priority Gulf of Mexico endemic species, and the ten most bird conservation lists found in State Wildlife Actions oiled bird species recovered during the Deepwater Plans, Joint Venture plans, Landscape Conservation Horizon Oil spill.
From page 164...
... [2002] for monitoring marsh birds in New an index is defined to be a variable that correlates England marshes)
From page 165...
... For particular more robust techniques to evaluate differences habitats, including tidal marsh, the direct between tidal marsh restoration sites pre- and relationships between marsh bird communities post-restoration or between reference and and site characteristics are generally poorly restored sites. A secondary benefit to using understood (Brawley, 1995)
From page 166...
... metrics that are suggested by the committee to assess bird restoration efforts at a program, region, or Gulf-wide scale (note that example metrics to Reproductive Rates support monitoring for adaptive management are not included because of their inherent Few avian restoration monitoring efforts project/program-specificity)
From page 167...
... . that includes a data management plan that addresses data acquisition, development, storage, and transfer; Develop a Rigorous and Robust Sampling Design • Maximize the inference based on survey design – emphasis placed on a survey that Perhaps the most over-arching best practice provides broadly applicable data with a broad for avian monitoring efforts is scientific rigor.
From page 168...
... When collaborative these units could be particularly useful for efforts, such as marking birds with nano-tag monitoring bird species that vocalize frequently transmitters, are combined with a region-wide or for species such as breeding marsh birds, network of automated towers, this type of array especially if occupancy is a monitoring metric of could track birds across the widespread, diverse interest. habitats of the Gulf of Mexico over thousands of Recent technological advances with wildlife kilometers.5 cameras have led to an explosion in the use of The utility of standard sampling frameworks camera trapping to survey and monitor wildlife in and protocols cannot be overstated.
From page 169...
... . Practitioners used two standardized monitoring agreement on a standardized monitoring protocol components to generate rigorous and robust population – the Standardized North American Marsh Bird and abundance estimates – a sampling design framework for monitoring breeding secretive marsh Monitoring Protocol (Conway, 2011)
From page 170...
... Marsh, and (C) Op Water Bird Restoration pen
From page 171...
... Bird Restor ration Monitoring n 171
From page 172...
... 172 Effective Monitoring to Eva valuate Ecological Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico c
From page 173...
... Bird Restor ration Monitorin ng 173 SOURCES Johnson et al., 2009; Conway, 2011; Wilson, 2015; Wiest et al., 2016.
From page 174...
... , marsh birds (MB) , pelagic seabirds (PS)
From page 175...
... in the Everglades marsh bird monitoring protocol. Waterbirds ecosystem.
From page 176...
... Marine Ecology Restoration Ecology 14:391-403 Progress Series 513:225-237. Gawlik DE.
From page 177...
... A monitoring protocol to assess tidal recommendations for urbanizing landscapes. restoration of salt marshes on local and Restoration Ecology 9(3)
From page 178...
... :795-809. of select marsh birds within northern Gulf of Ogden, J.C., J.D.
From page 179...
... tidal marsh birds of high conservation Guglielmo.


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