Glacier National Park 2022 MAPS Report: Monitoring Avian Production and Survivorship, West Glacier Station
Bate L and Eaton G. 2022. Glacier National Park 2022 MAPS Report: Monitoring Avian Production and Survivorship, West Glacier Station. Glacier National Park. West Glacier, MT
The Monitoring Avian Survivorship and Production (MAPS) program is a cooperative bird monitoring and research effort among public and private agencies and individual bird banders across the continental United States, Canada, and northern Mexico. The program provides critical, long-term data on population and demographic parameters for over 150 target landbird species at multiple spatial scales. This program bolsters trend data from programs such as Christmas Bird Counts and Breeding Bird Surveys (DeSante and Nolt 2001). These other data are important, but fall short of providing information on the life-stages of birds that may be most important in limiting population growth. In 2020, we initiated the first ever MAPS station in Glacier National Park (GNP), with the primary goal of collecting longterm data that would aid in bird conservation and education here in GNP, the region, and throughout the world.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Bate, Lisa; Eaton, Gabriella
- Date of Issue
- 2022
- Publisher
- Glacier National Park
- Units
- CRCO , GLAC
- Keywords
- bird populations, MAPS, monitoring, surveys
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds