Bird Populations Information Management : Bird Censusing and Historic Snapshots: Mammals (reporting them during the 2019 SBCs)

20181015

Mammals (reporting them during the 2019 SBCs)

Our Summer Bird Count (SBC) numbers of birds can be impacted by habitat changes, climate changes, food/diet changes, and many other factors, including changes in predatory mammals. Therefore, this year, as an experiment, we would like to ask all SBC observers to note any mammals they see during their SBC field work, especially those which might have strong (direct or indirect) impacts on birds, such as foxes, coyotes, domestic cats (feral and otherwise), bob cats, deer (Researchers Document Deer Eating Birds | Field & Stream), fisher cats, raccoons, bears, etc.

Please submit any mammal observations you might have (including estimated numbers), freeform, through the 8 SBC circle Compilers, perhaps via email or notes penned-in on your data submission form, etc.

This reporting of mammals is OPTIONAL. Depending on what we learn from this Experiment, we may or may not continue these mammal observations and reporting next year. If we do, we will find a better format and simple mechanism for reporting them next year.

REFERENCES in case you might be interested:

List of mammals of Connecticut - Wikipedia

List of mammals of New England - Wikipedia

DEEP: Wildlife Fact Sheets

AND what are the best field guides for Mammals??

Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America (Peterson Field Guides (Paperback)): Fiona Reid: 9780395935965: Amazon.com: Books
which has plates like this, including field marks...

Summer Bird Counts 2020

UPDATE, DECEMBER 16, 2020: ALL 8 SBC COUNTS WERE CONDUCTED, in June. ALL 8 OF THE 8 SBC RESULTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AS OF NOVEMBER, for compilation into our CT statewide database. The 8 compilers are verifying the numbers in our data entry table currently (December). After that, Compilation will proceed during January.

We will go ahead with the 2020 SBC Summer Bird Counts in CT, unless the pandemic situation gets markedly worse by early June. We expect all SBC participants to follow the safety guidelines listed in the post on the left (in blue), and not to participate if they believe they are ill or will be at any risk.

DATES for the 2020 SBCs:

All these dates were agreed to during March.

In May all 8 compilers agreed to do their counts in June.

JUNE 6-7:

--Woodbury-Roxbury. Russ Naylor** (I spoke with Russ again during May, June, August & September).

JUNE 13-14:

--Greenwich-Stamford. Thomas Burke** and Gary Palmer.

--Hartford. Jay Kaplan**.

--Litchfield Hills. David Tripp**!

--New Haven. Steve Mayo*.

JUNE 20-21:

--New Milford / Pawling. Angela Dimmitt**.

--Storrs. Steve Morytko*.

JUNE 27-28:

--Barkhamsted. John Marshall** and Dave Rosgen.

*=confirmed during May to proceed in June.

**=2020 June count results received for state compilation, into our new central database.

! =verified by compiler.

DETAILS OF DATES AND CONTACT INFO:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11PQIBeNNfmFupswl3Hl7epScweJ-Yt4EyrvRVu_0CqA/

Missing the Ocean?

And for those of us who are missing the ocean and seabirding during this covid19 year, this video is a reminder of how much fun it can be, if you are returning to Freeport LI, NY through the notorious Jones Inlet, at Point Lookout:

Inlet of Fury 2 - BINGO GETS THICK - YouTube << this is Jones Inlet, at Point Lookout, and fasten your seatbelt.

And if you do not think this is dangerous, note this article last month, that a person was killed there in early May 2020...

https://www.liherald.com/stories/kaminsky-calls-for-dredging-in-jones-inlet-after-fatal-boating-accident-near-point-lookout,125069

Hopefully covid19 will pass, and we can get back to normal soon.

Summer Bird Counts 2019

This request was made in mid-May 2019. Since then we have received all eight SBC reports, and assembled them into our new database, which will go online within about a month.

All SBC data and documents should be emailed to robben99@gmail.com robben99@gmail.com or mailed to the SBC central data-collection point:

Tom Robben

172 Grandview Drive

Glastonbury, CT 06033

I will make copies and forward them to Joe, Patrick and whoever needs them, including the Archive at UConn, which is being established at UConn. I will also keep another copy for the state-wide SBC team (J.Zeranski, P.Comins, T.Robben, et al). A centralized SBC database is under construction. More on that later.

COA Bird Data Archive

COA is starting a new Bird Data ARCHIVE for the safekeeping of important bird data, so that it will be available for future scientists, and future generations.

Some of your personal bird data may be valuable but not be secure and safe from possible loss.

So, if you think you have any valuable data, please contact us soon, and lets discuss.
If we agree that you have some especially valuable data, we would ask you to give us a copy of it (or bequeath it to COA) to put it in our new Bird Data ARCHIVE for safekeeping.

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