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FWS | 2020
The FWS Division of Migratory Bird Management is integrating remote sensing and machine learning technologies to improve safety, data quality, and efficiency of broad-scale migratory bird surveys.…
FWS | 2020
Tumbesian dry tropical forests are found along the Pacific coast from southern Ecuador into northern Peru. They represent a region of substantial species endemism and seasonal forest conditions that…
FWS | 2020
Migrating waterbirds moving between upper and lower latitudinal breeding and wintering grounds, while crossing arid continental interiors, rely on a limited network of endorheic lakes and wetlands,…
NPS | 2016
In the summer of 2015 Crater Lake National Park (CRLA) hosted a research fellow with the George Melendez Wright Young Leaders in Climate Change program; Donal O’Leary, then a Masters student in…
FWS | 2016
In 2009, the Sea Duck Joint Venture (SDJV) launched an ambitious, large-scale satellite telemetry study of sea ducks in the Atlantic Flyway. Target species include black scoter,…
FWS | 2016
Documenting bird and bat migration is challenging because migration activity is typically sporadic in nature and nocturnal movements are difficult to observe. The FWS uses avian radar to monitor the…
FWS | 2016
FWS researchers investigated whether the recent, unprecedented scale of sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation in the American West has had beneficial effects on other sagebrush-…
FWS | 2016
FWS Region 3 Aviation Program, FWS Division of Migratory Bird Management, FWS National Aviation Management Branch, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Laboratory, USGS…
FWS | 2016
Lidar data are being leveraged to characterize avian nesting sites. Forty counties having USGS Quality Level 2 lidar data in eastern North Carolina (240.5 billion points) were processed to extract…
FWS | 2016
The 48,000-ha Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) was established in 1985 for the re-introduction of the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) to…
FWS | 2016
Each spring since 1987, FWS staff have conducted the Four-Square-Mile Breeding Waterfowl Survey across five states and two FWS regions in the Prairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains.…
FWS | 2016
Repeated collection of high spatial resolution satellite imagery over the entire Great Lakes coastal zone will allow resource managers to better understand, manage, and preserve the region’s…