Dramatic Biological Responses To Arctic Warming Sep 11, 2009
In addition to Eric Post at Penn State University, the team he led was comprised of biologists, ecologists, geographers, botanists, anthropologists, and fish and wildlife experts from the University of Alberta and the Canadian Wildlife Service in Canada; Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark; the University of Helsinki in Finland; the Arctic Ecology Research Group in France; the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Greenland; the University Centre on Svalbard, the... (Science Daily)
Bird banding Jul 23, 2009
It is run in conjunction with the Canadian Wildlife Service. In 2002, more than 1 million birds were banded, and the USGS reports fewer than 100,000 were recovered. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Songbirds, pelicans are species of concern Jun 16, 2009
"Citizen science was an important part of creating this report." Information from the Christmas Bird Count, along with waterfowl trend reports kept by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service, were compared against the 1968 North American Breeding Bird Survey, in which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service tracked 365 species of birds known to breed in North America. "Around 800 species inhabit terrestrial, coastal and ocean habitats around the... (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Mass Audubon's Oriole Project enlists 'citizen scientists,' young and old May 28, 2009
Most of the information available about orioles traditionally has been drawn from annual surveys conducted by the US Geological Survey and the Canadian Wildlife Service. "We'll have created a kind of army of oriole watchers out there," Leahy said. (Boston Globe)
Counting birds Apr 3, 2009
North American Breeding Bird Survey: Under the direction of the U.S. Geological Survey and Canadian Wildlife Service, have counted 420 breeding species since 1968. Year after year, at more than 4,000 sites, these citizen-scientists traverse the same routes, in the same order, stopping to look and listen for birds for three minutes every half-mile. (Why Files)
The state of birds in the U.S. Mar 21, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009. North America's bird populations have declined significantly in the past 40 years as bulldozers have flattened forests, rolled over grasslands and filled wetlands, according to a study released Thursday that is the first comprehensive analysis of the state of the nation's birds. (San Francisco Chronicle)
