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Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter

Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter provides photographs, songs, videos, identification tips, maps, and life history information such as migration status, breeding, nesting type, and diet for North American birds. This website presents photographs, songs, videos, identification tips, maps, and life history information for North American More...

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Hormonal Control and the Effects of Endocrine-Active Contaminants on Avian Secondary Sex Characteristics

This research project gives an overview of the hormonal control and the effects of endocrine-active contaminants on avian secondary sex characteristics. This project will develop measures for plumage, soft parts (bill and dermal structures) color and pattern in American kestrels (Falco sparverius). In addition, experiments will characterize the More...

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Lyme Disease and Vector-Borne Pathogen Studies

Dr. Howard Ginsberg is studying the transmission of Lyme disease spirochetes in nature using ecological studies of ticks and their vertebrate hosts, and models of spirochete transmission dynamics. Environmental factors that influence tick populations apparently operate on a regional scale. Distribution of vertebrate hosts plays a role in tick More...

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SAGEMAP: GIS Database for Sage Grouse and Shrubsteppe Management in the Intermountain West

SAGEMAP - Spatial Data for Sage Grouse and Shrubsteppe Systems is needed for research and management of sage grouse and sagebrush steppe habitats in the western United States. This website is a product of the NBII Great Basin Information Project. Find out more from this resource on sage grouse as endangered species, habitat information, More...

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Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer: For Breeding Bird Atlases in the U.S. & Canada

From the Web site: "Search data compiled from 24 state and provincial Breeding Bird Atlases ( BBAs ). The Breeding Bird Atlas ( BBA ) Explorer is a website that offers data from the published BBAs and interim data from ongoing BBAs in a uniform system. It allows users to learn about the methods used in each atlas project, to get the species and More...

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North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database (NPPSD)

The North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database is an ongoing project between the USGS and Fish and Wildlife Service that addresses data on the pelagic distribution and abundance of seabirds. This project has collected data from researchers in Canada, Russia, and the U.S. (1972-2003). This information is critical for understanding the basic ecology of More...

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Pollinators

The global declines in many kinds of pollinator species could potentially impact the global food supply, as many plants depend upon specific pollinators to reproduce. The Web site of the NBII Pollinators Project provides access to information about the biology, ecology, conservation status, and threats to native pollinators, pollinator-dependent More...

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Biological and Ecotoxicological Characteristics of Terrestrial Vertebrates Introduction

BEST Large River Fish Health Data Query Tool provides a simplified portal for accessing database that serves fish health endpoints measured through the Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Project's Large River Monitoring Network (LRMN). The tool allows the user to search the database by species, chemical, river basin, sampling More...

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Raptor Information System (RIS)

The Raptor Information System (RIS) is a computerized literature retrieval system that focuses on raptor management, human impacts on raptors, the mitigation of adverse impacts, and basic raptor biology (with an emphasis on population dynamics and predation). The raptor contaminants database is a subset of RIS that includes references with More...

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North American Bird Monitoring Projects Database

The North American Bird Monitoring Projects Database site is dedicated to bird monitoring in North America. It provides easy access to descriptions of all major bird monitoring projects in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The information will be used in designing new continental projects to insure that existing efforts are used to the More...

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North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS)

Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is a project monitored by the USGS and the Canadian Wildlife Service on the status and trends of North American bird populations. The data can be used to estimate population trends and relative abundances at various scales. The BBS is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research More...

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North American Bird Banding Program

Bird banding is a technique for studying the movements, survival, and behavior of birds. Wild birds are captured and a band containing a number and other information is place on the leg. This website for users who are looking for information about bird bands, along with a brief history of bird banding, information on who bands birds and why, More...

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