Monitoring Bird Populations:

Why, how, where, and who

In 1998, The Ornithological Council and the U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center co-sponsored a workshop at the North American Ornithological Conference to look at bird monitoring programs in North America and in the United Kingdom.  Until this workshop, there had been no complete assessment of monitoring programs for all bird taxa.  In 1980, an international symposium on estimating the numbers of terrestrial birds had been held.  The 1998 workshop, which is part of a larger effort by BRD to develop monitoring standards and protocols for all bird taxa, included wading birds, seabirds, and shorebirds.

What's available on this website:

The abstracts from the 1998 meeting

A summary of the workshop and recommendations for improved monitoring

Bibliography and list of resources

Coming soon - a summary of who monitors birds, which birds they monitor, where birds are monitored, and how birds are monitored

External links about bird monitoring

The links listed below will direct you to sites that are not part of BIRDNET

• Overview article, The Auk, January 2005: Monitoring the abundance of bird populations, by Jonathan Bart (PDF format)
• North American Bird Projects Database
• Raptor Population Index
• Avian Knowledge Network
• Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) data ~ USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Bird Conservation Node