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Climate Change Database Clearinghouse: Avian
FEDERAL AGENCIES
Organization: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Contact: John Sauer (Analyses Contact)
Email: John_Sauer@usgs.gov
Web address: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBS/
Database name: North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS)
Description: The North American Breeding Bird Survey is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and the Canadian Wildlife Service's National Wildlife Research Centre to monitor the status and trends of North American bird populations. Following a rigorous protocol, BBS data are collected by thousands of dedicated participants along thousands of randomly established roadside routes throughout the continent. Professional BBS coordinators and data managers work closely with researchers and statisticians to compile and deliver these population data and population trend analyses on more than 400 bird species, for use by conservation managers, scientists, and the general public. Surveys 1966 to 2007.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Organization: Partners in Flight
Contact: n/a
Email: n/a
Web address: http://www.partnersinflight.org/
Database name: Partners in Flight Species Assessment Database
Description: Partners In Flight (PIF) is a partnership of federal and state agencies, industry, non-governmental organizations, and many others, with the goal of conserving North American birds. In 1991, PIF began developing a formal species assessment process that could provide consistent, scientific evaluations of conservation status across all bird species in North America, and identify areas most important to the conservation of each species. This process applies quantitative rule sets to complex biological data on the population size, distribution, population trend, threats, and regional abundance of individual bird species to generate simple numerical scores that rank each species in terms of its biological vulnerability and regional status. The process results in global and regional conservation assessments of each bird species that, among other uses, can be used to objectively assign regional and continental conservation priorities among birds.
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