NPS Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring
Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network. NPS Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring. 2008. National Park Service
The overall purpose of natural resource monitoring in national parks is to develop scientifically sound information on the current status and long-term trends in the composition, structure, and function of park ecosystems. Use of monitoring information will increase confidence in managers’ decisions, improving their ability to manage park resources. This increased knowledge will allow managers to confront and mitigate threats to the park and operate more effectively in legal and political arenas. Very few landbird projects have been completed within the parks of the KLMN and there have been even fewer long-term monitoring projects. Without this information, park managers will have difficulty determining the status and trends of these species within their boundaries, they will not have statistically vigorous data available to compare landbird communities within their boundaries to those communities outside their boundaries, and they will not have a clear understanding of how the management practices in the park are affecting landbirds. This protocol will provide park managers with data and information that can be utilized to help better address these issues. Birds were among the 10 highest ranked vital signs in the KLMN vital signs selection process (Odion et al. 2005). Selection of landbird communities is consistent with the consensus to monitor the status and trends in structure, function, and composition of focal communities, the second highest ranking monitoring question for the Network (Sarr et al. 2007). Landbirds were selected as a focus group for bird monitoring in the KLMN because they provide cost-effective information about ecological conditions of interest (Alexander et al. 2007) and they are well represented in the major terrestrial habitats in the parks. In addition, the status and trends of other bird populations not monitored by this protocol (e.g., sea bird colonies, Bald Eagles, Peregrine Falcons, Northern Spotted Owls) are already being monitored by the parks or by other agencies. One approach to designing monitoring projects is to focus on groups of organisms that can provide cost-effective information about ecological conditions of interest (Vos et al. 2000, Gram et al. 2001). Landbirds are an effective tool for monitoring because: (1) many species are easily and inexpensively detected, (2) standardized sampling protocols have already been developed, (3) landbird species respond to a wide variety of habitat conditions, and (4) measuring status and trends for many species with different ecological requirements can inform landscape scale conservation strategies (Hutto 1998). The potential for landbirds to serve as effective ecological indicators is noted in Recommended Methods for Inventorying and Monitoring Landbirds in National Parks (Fancy and Sauer 2000). In this publication, Fancy and Sauer put forth the justification for monitoring bird communities within the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program: Birds are an important component of park ecosystems, and their high body temperature, rapid metabolism, and high ecological position in most food webs make them a good indicator of the effects of local and regional changes in ecosystems. Moreover, birds have a tremendous following among the public, and many parks provide information on the status and trends of birds in the park through their interpretive program.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CRLA , KLMN , LABE , LAVO , ORCA , REDW , WHIS
- Keywords
- Constant Effort Monitoring Station, Landbirds, mist net, Monitoring, Partners in Flight, Point Count, Vital Signs
Program
Products
- Landbird monitoring: 2021 results from Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, Lava Beds National Monument, and Redwood National and State Parks
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Project Master Databases
- Klamath Bird Banding Data Package
- Klamath Landbird Point Count Monitoring Data Package
- Klamath Network Landbird Point Count Monitoring Data Package
- Klamath Network Landbird Banding Data Package
- Klamath Network Landbird Point Count Monitoring Data Package
- Landbird monitoring: 2022 results from Crater Lake National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
- Established and empirically derived landbird focal species lists correlate with vegetation and avian metrics
- Landbird monitoring: 2018 results from Lassen Volcanic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
- Landbird monitoring: 2019 results from Crater Lake National Park and Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Annual Report: 2008 results from Oregon Caves National Monument, Lava Beds National Monument and Redwood National and State Parks
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Annual Report: 2009 results from Oregon Caves National Monument and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
- Establishment of survey sites for monitoring landbirds within the Klamath Network
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Annual Report: 2010 Results from Crater Lake National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, and Oregon Caves National Monument
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring GIS Data
- Klamath Network landbird monitoring annual report: 2011 results from Oregon Caves National Monument, Lava Beds National Monument, and Redwood National and State Parks
- Estimating bird density and detection probability at five national park units in southern Oregon and northern California
- Bird-habitat associations at five national park units in southern Oregon and northern California
- Klamath Network landbird monitoring annual report: 2012 results from Lassen Volcanic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
- Klamath Network landbird monitoring annual report: 2013 results from Crater Lake National Park and Oregon Caves National Monument.
- Klamath Network landbird monitoring annual report: 2014 results from Oregon Caves National Monument, Lava Beds National Monument, and Redwood National and State Parks
- Landbird monitoring: 2015 results from Lassen Volcanic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
- Bird population trends from constant effort mist netting in Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve
- Landbird monitoring: 2016 results from Crater Lake National Park and Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Project Master Databases
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Project Master Databases
- Landbird monitoring: 2017 results from Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, Lava Beds National Monument, and Redwood National and State Parks
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Project Master Databases
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Project Master Databases
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Protocol
- Klamath Network Landbird Monitoring Project Master Databases
- Klamath Network Landbird Banding Data Package 2008-2024
- Script for quality control of landbird point count data from the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network
- Klamath Landbird Point Count Monitoring Data Package- Protected
- Klamath Network Landbird Point Count Monitoring Data Package
- Klamath Network landbird monitoring point count and banding data validation scripts