Coastal hawk migration in Maine: A field study
Baird S. 1983. Coastal hawk migration in Maine: A field study. College of the Atlantic
From the purpose: "The main purpose of this entire project is for me to carry out a biological field study from beginning to end. This includes planning and logistics, background research, field research, data analysis, and presentation of my results, both to the scientific community and to more general audiences. The purpose of the field research itself was to learn more about migratory behavior in hawks, and to try to apply what I could learn from literature on the subject to what I could see in the field. Also, by going through the process of data analysis myself, I hoped to gain a better understanding of the actual meaning of the presentation of data in various papers. The habitat chosen (a barren offshore island) to carry out this study in was very different from those typically used in studies of hawk migration. An effort was made to compare the migration to that in others. This habitat yielded both different proportions of the various species involved and a different aspect of migratory behavior."
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Baird, Steven
- Date of Issue
- 1983
- Publisher
- College of the Atlantic
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- & allies (Accipitridae), Beech Mountain, Birds (Aves), Eagles, Falcons & Caracaras (Falconidae), Green Island, Hawks, Islands, Kites, Matinicus Rock, Migration, Mount Desert Island, Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), Rare Species, thesis, Threatened & Endangered Species