Bird inventories and monitoring on National Park Service units in the Northern Great Plains, 2002–2004: Final report

Panjabi A. 2005. Bird inventories and monitoring on National Park Service units in the Northern Great Plains, 2002–2004: Final report. Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Brighton, Colorado

Between 2002 and 2004, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) implemented a three-year cooperative effort with the NPS Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program in the Northern Great Plains Network (NGPN) to conduct bird inventories and monitoring in seven NPS units ("parks"). The parks, located in Wyoming, South Dakota, and North Dakota, include Devil's Tower National Monument, Jewel Cave National Monument, Wind Cave National Park, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, and Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. This report details the final results of this three year effort to inventory and begin monitoring bird population trends in national parks in the northern Great Plains. The primary goal of the bird inventories was to record the presence of breeding bird species at the parks, so that by the end of this effort, at least 90% of the expected breeding species at each park will have been documented. The inventories also provide an update on the status of previously documented species in each park...The goal of the bird monitoring is to detect trends in bird populations over time so that interpretations of the health of those populations can be made with confidence.

Type
Unpublished Report
Authors
Panjabi, Arvind
Date of Issue
2005
Publisher
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory
Units
DETO , FOLA , FOUS , JECA , KNRI , MORU , NGPN , WICA
Keywords
Absence (Biodiversity), Animal Studies, Bird, Bird Inventory, Inventory, Monitoring, Observations, Presence (Biodiversity), Vertebrates

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