A Monitoring Protocol to Assess Wintering Shorebird Population Trends

Phase 1 & 2 (2010, 2012): This project developed a sampling design and monitoring protocol for wintering shorebirds in the Central Valley and in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and develop an LCC-specific online shorebird monitoring portal publicly available at the California Avian Data Center. The three objectives in Phase II of this project are: 1) Complete the shorebird monitoring plan for the CA LCC by developing a sampling design and monitoring protocol for wintering shorebirds in coastal southern California and northern Mexico. 2) Develop models to evaluate the influence of habitat factors from multiple spatial scales on shorebird use of San Francisco Bay and managed wetlands in the Sacramento Valley, as a model...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... CA, CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Monitoring, Monitoring, Project, Publication, SF Bay/Delta, Science Project, Southwest CSC, Tidal, Wetland, birds, cadc, california avian data center, completed, conservation, environment, fish, habitat, information exchange, invertebrates, land use, management, map, model, monitoring, multiple, on-line, pacific flyway, rice, santa monica nra, scenarios, sdm, shorebirds, wetland, wintering shorebirds, Fewer tags

Feather mercury concentrations in North American raptors sampled at migration monitoring stations

We assessed total mercury concentrations in breast feathers of diurnal North American raptors collected at migration monitoring stations. We sampled raptor feathers from 9 species in the Pacific Flyway and compared species, sex, date, and flyway effects on mercury concentrations. We also explored year effects on 3 species of raptors in the Pacific Flyway during 13-years (2002-2014). Finally, we compared mercury concentrations in merlin among 4 continental flyways. These data support the following publication: Bourbour, R.P., Martinico, B.L., Ackerman, J.T., Herzog, M.P., Hull, A.C., Fish, A.M. and Hull, J.M., 2019. Feather mercury concentrations in North American raptors sampled at migration monitoring stations....

Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic Flyway, Intermountain Flyway, Mississippi Flyway, Pacific Flyway, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, mercury contamination, migratory species, wildlife, Fewer tags

Tracking Landscape Change in the Central Valley

This project helps the Central Valley Joint Venture (CVJV) track gains and losses of key bird and waterfowl habitats at a landscape scale. This will allow the CVJV to effectively monitor and evaluate habitats essential to conservation planning for wildlife species. This work is important for identifying, assembling, and analyzing data for key habitats of concern and will provide a foundation for future monitoring.

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, Agricultural, CA, CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, All tags... California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Private land owners, Project, Rice Field, Science Project, Wetland, birds, completed, conservation, environment, evapotranspiration, modeling, pacific flyway, precipitation, scenarios, shorebird, temperature, truemet, water deficit, waterfowl, Fewer tags

Data describing infection status and movement ecology of North American waterfowl

These data, which support a USGS authored manuscript, describe how active and previous previous infection with avian influenza impacts the movement ecology of several wild waterfowl species that overwinter in California. Results varied by species and demonstrate that the relationships between avian influenza infection and wild bird movements are context- and species-dependent.

Categories: Data; Tags: California, Pacific Flyway, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, All tags... Wildlife Disease, avian influenza, biota, migration, movement, telemetry, waterfowl, Fewer tags

Data measuring avian influenza infection, mercury concentration, and body condition in wild waterfowl

These data represent mercury contamination, influenza infection, and body condition in 11 species of dabbling and diving ducks in the Pacific Flyway. These data support a USGS lead scientific publication.

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Pacific Flyway, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, Wildlife Disease, All tags... avian influenza, biota, body condition, environmental contaminant, mercury, waterfowl, Fewer tags