Updates from the Midwest Coordinated Bird

Monitoring Partnership

15 March 2017

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2017 JV Science Team Meeting

Why Coordinated Bird Monitoring?

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Integrate monitoring into bird management and conservation

Broaden scope of monitoring for species most at risk and for which we lack adequate information to make effective decisions

Coordinate programs among organizations and across spatial scales

Improve survey design, field methods, and data analysis

Employ modern data management strategies

Midwest CBM Objectives

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Evolution of Midwest CBM Partnership

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Midwest CBM Accomplishments

• > 600 registered members• Monthly Blog Postings and Event

Announcements• Updated Grant and Job

Announcements• Working Group Communication

• 475 Followers• Tool for community engagement

and to recruit people for working groups and events

• Frequent announcements and shares

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Nocturnal Birds

• Pilot tested a protocol and sampling framework in four Midwest states

• Uploading data from IL, MI, MN and WI into MWADC

• Working on two publications –protocol and landscape scale assessment

• Future focus on targeted surveys for rare species, full life cycle investigations of nightjars, etc.

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Secretive Marshbirds

• JV Technical Report – Research and Monitoring Recommendations

• Projects on-going in all 8 states

• Entering Data in MWADC (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI)

• Evaluating management impacts on marshbirds in BCR 12 and WI/MI/OH

• Custom Data Analysis and Summary Tools (2017)

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Great Lakes Pelagic Birds

• Inform management and conservation (beyond energy development)

• Develop predictive models of waterbird distributions and densities across the Great Lakes

• Use MWADC as a platform to manage datasets, provide meaningful visualizations, and coordinate partnerships around conservation questions.

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Demographic Monitoring

Aerial Insectivores

• Lots of activity and info sharing!

• Identified project needs for CHSW, BANS, and insect monitoring

• Working Group ended in 2016; work continues in other forums (Facebook, species working groups, urban conservation efforts).

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Grassland Birds

• Supported projects in MN, IL, WI

• Shift from a focus on monitoring to a focus on grassland conservation

• Drum et al. publication in PLOS ONE

• U of MN Graduate Seminar (change strategy for grassland birds)

• Midwest Grassland Conservation Planning Atlas (DataBasin)

• Bobolink FLC Conservation Plan

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Midwest Migration Network

• Two Workshops (Oct. 2015 and Oct. 2016)

• Strategic Plan Approved; Vetted and Ranked Priority Species and Research Needs; Data Management Strategies

• Formed Three Project Teams (Telemetry, Banding, and Radar/Acoustics)

• Launching Network Projects in 2017

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Northern Forest Birds (BCR 12)

• March 2015 Workshop

• Steering Committee formed and met in Fall 2015

• Focusing on two projects for now:Priorities matrix and Monitoring Registry

• Update PIF threat assessment and population objectives (2017)

• Focal species management: GWWA/AMWO, KIWA, CAWA

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Midwest Avian Data Center

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Looking Ahead

CBM Strengths

• Ease of engaging partners • Flexibility and adaptability• Leverage “free” resources• Technical expertise• Developed and tested protocols• Expanded participation in monitoring programs

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2017 JV Science Team Meeting

NABCI - Continental(landbirds, shorebirds,

waterbirds, and waterfowl)

Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Region JV

Management Board Science Team

Midwest CBM Partnership

BCR 12

Secretive Marshbirds

MWADC

GWWA

KIWA CAWA

CBM Opportunities for Growth

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• More integration with existing partnerships and decision-making structures•Formal committee to guide and direct Midwest Avian Data Center (business plan)•Sustainable leadership structure for CBM partnership and working groups•2018 Midwest Bird Conservation Workshop

A Sustainable and Impactful Future