I did some research and found an excellent book on this subject - "Bird Census Techniques" (Second Edition) by Colin J. Bibby. The general thrust of this book is given in the preface:
"The first edition of this book was conceived as a tool to amalgamate text on the various bird counting methodologies and act as a handbook for ornithilogical research...This second edition is offered to professional and amateur researchers, volunteer conservationists, consultant ecologists, and anyone else who is planning to survey and monitor birds but who may lack the facilities to research and understand the bewildering range of modern survey methods."
The book succeeds mightily in achieving these goals. It contains a wealth of information on modern survey methods and has a long list of references should you need even more followup information.
- Territory Mapping,
- Line Transects,
- Point Counts and Point Transects,
- Catching and Marking,
- Distribution Studies, and
- Counting Individual Species
We will likely need more of the "volunteer conservationists" mentioned above in the book's preface, and this book is an excellent way to begin learning about bird census techniques. I highly recommend it if you are interested in this topic.
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inexpensive, good book; i use it; also, the ecol. of bird communities by john wiens
ReplyDeletehe compares the efficacy of spot-mapping versus fixed-width transects versus variable-width transects versus VCP- variable circular plot methods. very good read for RESIDENT BIRD COUNTS, THE WINTER BIRD POPS. SURVEY and BREEDING BIRD CENSUS, JIM LOWE, CORNELL, 1-800-843-BIRD, AND PUBLISHED IN BIRD POPULATIONS, www.prbo.org
the Marchant paper on the COMMON BIRD CENSUS in britain, no longer run, is good, too...john wiens is an avian community ecologist, the best in the world as thought by many,now senior scientist for the nature conservancy...find these two vols. on google books and amazon, and please include it in your library, though expensive a little. thanx for your post on birdchat, and nice blog (i'll bookmark it), and bird on!
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