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Whooping crane stopover habitat use and migration movement data in relation to drought severity, 2010-2022 Wildlife species face threats from climate and land use change, which may exacerbate how extreme climatic events influence population persistence and biodiversity. Migratory waterbirds are especially vulnerable to hydrological drought via reduced availability of surface water habitats. We assessed how whooping cranes, an endangered species in the U.S. and Canada, modified habitat use and migration strategies during drought to understand this species’ resilience to changing conditions and adaptive capacity. The data included 8,555 night-roost sites used by 145 cranes, 2010–2022, under non-drought conditions, moderate drought, and extreme drought conditions. Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, Colorado, Ecology, Iowa, Kansas, All tags... Manitoba, Migratory birds, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, environment, migration (organisms), plant and animal tagging, Fewer tags Predicted relative habitat selection for migrating whooping cranes in the United States Great Plains, drought The whooping crane is a listed endangered species in North America, protected under federal legislation in the United States and Canada. The only self-sustaining and wild population of Whooping Cranes nests at and near Wood Buffalo National Park near the provincial border of Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada. Birds from this population migrate through the Great Plains of North America and winter along the Gulf Coast of Texas at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding lands. These data represent predictions from a resource selection function using GPS locations between 2010 and 2016 during migration. This surface represents predictions under drought conditions across the study area. Pixel values... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Kansas, Migratory birds, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, All tags... Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, biota, birds, endangered species, environment, migration (organisms), plant and animal tracking, Fewer tags Wetland Habitat Structure Maps for the Central Valley of California 2013-2017 We produced a time series of maps of habitat structure within wetlands of the Central Valley of California. The structure of open water and tall emergent vegetation, such as Typha spp. and Schoenoplectus spp., is critical for migratory birds. Through field observation and digitization of high resolution imagery we identified the locations of tall emergent vegetation, water, and other land cover. Using a random forest classification, we classified multispectral Landsat 8 imagery 2013-2017. We used images from the fall when most wetlands are flooded and the summer to separate trees and tall emergent vegetation. The final maps show the distribution and extent of tall emergent vegetation within wetlands. Final time... Tags: California, Central Valley, Central Valley of California, Ecology, Emergent Vegetation, All tags... Geography, LANDSAT, LANDSAT 8, Land Use Change, Landscape, Planet, Remote Sensing, Sacramento, San Joaquin, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wetlands, biota, birds, environment, habitats, image collections, migratory birds, multispectral imaging, remote sensing, satellite imagery, shore birds, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Location data for whooping cranes of the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population, 2009-2018 Location and associated data came from whooping cranes from the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population, 2009–2018. We marked a sample of 68 whooping cranes with leg-mounted transmitters that acquired locations via the global positioning system (GPS) network and transmitted those data through the Argos satellite system. Cranes were captured either at their natal areas in and adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada or at their winter terminus along the Texas Gulf Coast. Transmitters provided different quantities of data because of the variable transmitter functionality and survival of marked birds. Multiple partners administered this research project and collected these data, including the Canadian Wildlife Service,... Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, All tags... Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags Annual survival, site fidelity, and longevity in the eastern population of the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) Data comprise 6632 observations of individually banded Painted Buntings, captured and observed from 1999-2016 at 40 study locations on the southeastern Atlantic Coast (NC, SC, GA and FL, US). Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Migratory Birds, Painted Bunting, Population Dynamics, Southeastern Atlantic Coast, All tags... Species Biology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags Multiscale resource selection by American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) during fall migration at Cape May, New Jersey This data set is measurements of the proportional area of 17 land-cover types at 5 different spatial scales in Cape May County, NJ at individual radio-tagged American woodcock (Scololpax minor) use locations and at random points across the county. The data set consists of a unique identifier, band number, year or season during which sampling was conducted, spatial coordinates (UTMs), Categories: Data; Tags: American Woodcocks, American woodcock, Animal Tracking, Cape May, Migratory Birds, All tags... New Jersey, Scolopax minor, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), fall migration, multi-scale, resource selection, stopover, Fewer tags Predicted relative habitat selection for migrating whooping cranes in the United States Great Plains, averaged The whooping crane (Grus americana) is a listed, endangered species in North America, protected under federal legislation in the United States and Canada. The only self-sustaining and wild population of Whooping Cranes nests at and near Wood Buffalo National Park near the provincial border of Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada. Birds from this population migrate through the Great Plains of North America and spend a nonbreeding period along the Gulf Coast of Texas at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding lands. These data represent predictions from a resource selection function using GPS locations between 2010 and 2016 during migration. This surface is a composite of drought and non-drought conditions... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Kansas, Migratory birds, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, All tags... Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, biota, birds, endangered species, environment, migration (organisms), plant and animal tracking, Fewer tags Common loon winter archival geolocator tag location data Breeding common loons were obtained for the movement and foraging pattern study from lakes in central and northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Both adults of a territorial pair were fitted with archival geolocator tags (Model LAT 2500; 34.6 x 8.3 mm, 4.4 g; Lotek Wireless Inc.). A combination of adhesive and plastic cable ties were used to affix the geolocator tag to a modified lock-on aluminum leg band. Tags were programmed to collect daily location estimates for up to two years, tag temperature (0.02 oC accuracy, ≤ 0.05 oC resolution) at 30-min intervals, and pressure data (±1% accuracy, 0.05% resolution) at 20-sec intervals during daylight hours to document foraging patterns... Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Gavia immer, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Minnesota, All tags... Southeastern U.S., Upper Midwest, Upper Penninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, archival geolocator tag, biota, common loon, migratory birds, none, species biology, wintering areas, Fewer tags Map of whooping crane migration corridor The whooping crane (Grus americana) is a listed endangered species in North America, protected under federal legislation in the United States and Canada. The only self-sustaining and wild population of Whooping Cranes nests at and near Wood Buffalo National Park near the provincial border of Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada. Birds from this population migrate through the Great Plains of North America and winter along the Gulf Coast of Texas at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding lands. These data represent migration corridors and precision estimates for this population that can be used for conservation planning activities, including targeting conservation, mitigation, and recovery actions and... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alberta, Ecology, Kansas, Manitoba, Montana, All tags... Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags Whooping crane migration habitat selection data and distance to wind-energy infrastructure, 2010-2016 These data were developed to support an effort to understand how whooping cranes select stopover habitat in the presence of wind-energy infrastructure. Location and associated data came from whooping cranes from the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population, 2010–2016. We marked a sample of 57 whooping cranes with leg-mounted transmitters that acquired locations via the global positioning system (GPS) network and transmitted those data through the Argos satellite system. Cranes were captured either at their natal areas in and adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada or at their winter terminus along the Texas Gulf Coast. Data herein include 9,347 ground locations used by whooping cranes during migration coupled with... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Kansas, Migratory birds, Montana, Nebraska, All tags... North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, endangered species, environment, migration (organisms), plant and animal tagging, wind energy, Fewer tags The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Analysis Results 1966 - 2019 This data product consists of a database of population change and abundance estimates for North American birds, estimated from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Data are presented for 548 species of birds in 4 spreadsheets containing trend estimates and annual indices for 2 time periods. Estimates are derived for each species using the 1 of 4 alternative models, and a cross-validation model selection procedure was used to select the best model for each species. Metadata for the BBS data used to produce these estimates is available from a USGS ftp site (ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/BBS/DataFiles/). Metadata associated with this data product provides information specific to the analysis results. Categories: Data; Tags: Bird Annual Indices, Bird Lists, Bird Trend Estimates, Birds, Breeding Bird Density, All tags... Breeding Bird Survey, Breeding Bird Survey Analysis, Canada, Ecology, Migratory Birds, North American Breeding Bird Survey, Population Estimation, Statistical Analysis, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags Morphological measurements and subspecies of midcontinent sandhill cranes The midcontinent population of sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) has historically been classified into three putative subspecies, but genetic analyses have identified only two genetically distinct subspecies. Previous studies have successfully used morphometrics in combination with an individual’s sex to differentiate subspecies of sandhill cranes that had been inferred based on breeding area, but no study has used a sample of genetically determined subspecies to discriminate and develop predictive models. These data were used to support an effort to develop a field-ready tool using common morphometric measurements without determination of an individual’s sex and linear discriminant analysis to classify genetically... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Saskatchewan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, environment, game species, migratory birds, Fewer tags Predicted relative habitat selection for migrating whooping cranes in the United States Great Plains, non-drought The whooping crane (Grus americana) is a listed, endangered species in North America, protected under federal legislation in the United States and Canada. The only self-sustaining and wild population of Whooping Cranes nests at and near Wood Buffalo National Park near the provincial border of Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada. Birds from this population migrate through the Great Plains of North America and spend a nonbreeding period along the Gulf Coast of Texas at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding lands. These data represent predictions from a resource selection function using GPS locations between 2010 and 2016 during migration. This surface is a composite of drought and non-drought conditions... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Kansas, Migratory birds, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, All tags... Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, biota, birds, endangered species, environment, migration (organisms), plant and animal tracking, Fewer tags Characterization of whooping crane migration space use in the Central Flyway, 2010-2016, spatial data These data were developed to support an effort to characterize migration strategies in the U.S. Great Plains and Canadian Prairies and to explore sources of heterogeneity in their migration strategy, including space use, timing, and performance. Data come from locations and other information related to 58 marked Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) from 2010–2016. These data represent basic information about space use during migrations of marked whooping cranes, including intensity of use and fidelity. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alberta, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, Minnesota, All tags... Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags Simulated impacts of feather oiling on avian energetics and migration: R environment model code and raw output This dataset represents a modeling effort intended to explore the impacts of oiling on migratory birds. The purpose of this model is to provide a first principles approach to predict potential biological impacts of altered energetics dynamics in north American migratory birds due to oiling of feathers. This data includes predicted theoretical impacts on migration timing, wintering latitude, starvation rates, and increased food uptake. This data was generated through model implementation in R (R Core Team 2020; Version 4.0.4). Categories: Data; Tags: Columbia Environmental Research Center, Environmental Health, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, bioenergetics, All tags... biota, ecotoxicology, migration, migratory birds, modeling, oil spills, population energetics, simulation models, starvation, thermoregulation, Fewer tags Characterization of whooping crane migrations and stopover sites used in the Central Flyway, 2010-2016 These data were developed to support an effort to characterize migration strategies in the U.S. Great Plains and Canadian Prairies and to explore sources of heterogeneity in their migration strategy, including space use, timing, and performance. Data come from locations and other information related to 58 marked Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) from 2010–2016. These data represent basic information about migrations of marked whooping cranes, including dates of initiation and termination of migration, time in migration, distance of migration, number of stopover sites used, and other metrics. Also included are data related to individual sites used by whooping cranes during migration. Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, Minnesota, All tags... Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags Spatial data for estimating whooping crane migration corridor The whooping crane (Grus americana) is a bird species in North America currently protected under federal endangered species legislation in the United States and Canada. The only self-sustaining and wild population of whooping cranes nests in and around Wood Buffalo National Park near the provincial border of Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada. Cranes from this population migrate through the Great Plains of North America and winter along the Gulf Coast of Texas at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding lands. These data support efforts to delineate a migration corridor for this population that can be used for conservation planning activities, including targeting conservation, mitigation, and recovery... Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, Ecology, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, All tags... Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags Characterization of whooping crane migrations and stopover sites used in the Central Flyway, 2010-2016 These data were developed to support an effort to characterize migration strategies in the U.S. Great Plains and Canadian Prairies and to explore sources of heterogeneity in their migration strategy, including space use, timing, and performance. Data come from locations and other information related to 58 marked Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) from 2010–2016. These data represent basic information about migrations of marked whooping cranes, including dates of initiation and termination of migration, time in migration, distance of migration, number of stopover sites used, and other metrics. Also included are data related to individual sites used by whooping cranes during migration. Tags: Alberta, Ecology, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, All tags... Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags Migrating Bird Survey Data Along the San Pedro River and its Tributaries, Southeastern Arizona, 1989-1994 Data files in this data series represent migrating bird count and habitat information collected during 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1994 field seasons at 13 riparian sites along the San Pedro River and its tributaries in southeastern Arizona, USA. At each site observations were made at up to 20 points, separated by 100 m arrayed along the riparian zone. Observation periods started at 20 minutes after sunrise, lasted for 7 minutes at each point and were completed within 4 hours. Bird detection and species identification were based on visual sighting, song, and call. Recorded observations were the number of individuals of each detected species detected using each detection method at each point and site within specified distance... Categories: Data; Tags: Dendrocica petechia, Dendroica coronata, Icteria virens, Piranga rubra, San Pedro River, All tags... Steldigopteryx serripennis, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wilsonia pusilla, body condition, cottonwood-willow, density, geoscientificInformation, habitat connectivity, isolated oases, migratory birds, neotropical migrants, relative abundance, riparian corridors, short-distance migrants, southeastern Arizona, species richness, western landscapes, western landscapes, Fewer tags Spatial Integration of Biological and Social Objectives to Identify Priority Landscapes for Waterfowl Habitat Conservation The information and data presented herein serve as the supplement to the report, “Spatial Integration of Biological and Social Objectives to Identify Priority Landscapes for Waterfowl Habitat Conservation”. The purpose of this supplemental material is to encourage exploration of the methods used to develop the spatially explicit products presented in the report. The in depth step-by-step methodology is complemented with a geodatabase to facilitate future refinement of the model as new information becomes available in the future. To repeat the process of developing the spatially explicit products (or to create other composite spatial products by varying objectives and weights), follow the methodology described in... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Agriculture, American Black Duck, Biological Objectives, Black Ducks, Breeding Waterfowl, All tags... Canada, Dabbling Ground Nester Guild, Diversity, Diving Cavity Nester Guild, Diving Ground Nester Guild, Diving Overwater Nester Guild, Duck Use Days (DUD), Ducks, Ecology, Fertilizer Application, Geese, Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Analysis, Harvest, Human Dimensions, Hunting Days Afield, Impermeable Surfaces, Mallard, Migratory Birds, Nitrogen, Non-breeding Waterfowl, North America, Northern Pintail, Obligate Wetland Birds, Percent Developed Land, Phosphorus, Scaup, Simpson's Diversity Index (SDI), Social Objectives, Spatial Value Model, Swans, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Urban Centers, Waterbirds, Waterfowl, Watershed Impairment, Wildlife Biology, Wood Duck, Fewer tags 1 2 »