Bird Monitoring: State Programs
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory implemented Monitoring Colorado’s Birds (MCB) in 1998 in conjunction with its funding partners: the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. The program was structured to obtain count-based data for all breeding landbird species in the state on a randomized and habitat-stratified basis. From 1999 to 2007, we implemented the protocol in a total of 13 habitats throughout the state.
In 2008, RMBO implemented a new spatially balanced sampling design based on Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) and management boundaries in the state of Colorado. This design, called Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR), is better suited to tracking populations given an ever-changing landscape, allows for population estimates at a variety of scales that can be compared to our historic bird-monitoring data, and is compatible with occupancy modeling of rare or difficult-to-detect species, which were previously excluded from analyses.
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For more information:
Jora Fogg
Monitoring Biologist
230 Cherry St.
Fort Collins, CO, 80521
(970) 482 1707 x27
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