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Management and Research Applications of Long-Range Surveillance Radar Data for Birds, Bats, and Flying Insects

This publication is intended to provide a summary of long-range surveillance radar technology and applications of these data to questions about movement patterns of birds and other flying wildlife based on publications that provide more detailed information (Buurma, 1995; Gauthreaux and Belser, 2003a, b; Gauthreaux and others, 2003; Diehl and More...

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Inventory of montane - and alpine - nesting shorebirds in Alaska

Mountains are the single dominant physiographic feature throughout most of Alaska. Indeed, mountains are such a defining feature of arctic Alaska and Beringia that they account for over 20 percent of the land area in the entire Holarctic (excluding the Greenland ice sheet). Not surprisingly, the avifauna of the region has been strongly More...

  • Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana)

Alaska Science Center - Avian Influenza Research

This web resource provides information concerning the on-going Research at the USGS Alaska Science Center on birds and avian influenza (bird flu). The site links to quick facts, on-going research, workshop results, monitoring and surveillance, guidelines on how to safeguard against avian influenza, publications and reports, migratory bird More...

  • Bar-tailed Godwits Roosting

Climate Change as a Challenge to Bird Conservation in Arid and Semi-arid Regions of North America

This study investigates how these regional climate changes would influence the survival and reproduction of migratory birds. The research addresses specific questions that include (1) How will climate change alter the spacing and quality of critical wetland stopover habitats? (2) What are the long-term demographic consequences of climate change on More...

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