Bird techniques

• Aerial photograph for cliff (ledge) nesting colonial waterbirds
• Aerial surveys (waterfowl, colonial waterbirds)
• Atlas (all species)
• Brood counts (waterfowl)
• Checklist (all species)
• Christmas bird counts (birds wintering in North America)
• Coastal beach nesting shorebird counts
• Counts from land (colonial waterbirds)
• Flight-line counts (colonial waterbirds)
• Flush counts (colonial waterbirds)
• Flush counts by helicopter (colonial waterbirds)
• Ground counts of shorebirds at non-breeding sites (shorebirds)
• Ground counts (colonial waterbirds)
• Ground counts of whole colony for burrow nesting colonial waterbirds
• Index plots for burrow nesting colonial waterbirds
• Land counts for cliff (ledge) nesting colonial waterbirds
• Mist-netting (land birds and nocturnal owls)
• Nest searches (primarily colonial waterbirds, waterfowl, and large marsh species)
• Point counts (land birds and some aquatic species)
• Radar (colonial waterbirds)
• Species list (all species)
• Surveys by fixed-wing aircraft (colonial waterbirds)
• Territory mapping (land birds)
• Transects (land birds, colonial waterbirds)

Amphibian techniques

• Area searches (all species)
• Aquatic traps (tadpoles, salamander/newt)
• Atlas (all species)
• Calling surveys (calling frogs and toads)
• Cover boards (terrestrial salamanders, pond-breeders)
• Crayfish traps (large aquatic salamanders, aquatic snakes, frogs, turtles, fish)
• Egg mass surveys (pond and pool breeders)
• FrogLogger (calling frogs and toads)
• Larval dipnetting
• Leaf litter bags (larval streamside salamanders)
• Pitfall traps (all species)
• Snorkel/SCUBA surveys (river salamanders)
• Species list (all species)
• Stream quadrats (adult streamside salamanders)
• Stream transects (adult streamside salamanders)
• Various techniques (hook and line, dipnets, seines, trawl, capturing with hands, electro-shocking, snorkeling and scuba diving, traps, spotlighting, spearing) for mudpuppies and waterdogs
• Various techniques for hellbenders
• Visual encounter surveys (most salamanders, frogs and toads)