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| x United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services based in Atlanta, Georgia. It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance...
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| x Food and Agriculture Organization |
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all...
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| x University of California, Los Angeles |
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The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was founded in 1919 and is the second-oldest general-purpose...
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| x United States Agency for International Development |
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States federal government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid. An independent federal agency, it...
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| x United States Geological Survey |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization...
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| x Agricultural Research Service |
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The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area. ARS is charged with...
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| x Environment Canada |
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Environment Canada (EC), legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act ( R.S., 1985, c. E-10 ), is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for coordinating environmental...
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| x National Audubon Society |
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The National Audubon Society is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservancy. Incorporated in 1905, it is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world. It is named in honor of John James Audubon, a Franco...
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| x Woodland Park Zoo |
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Woodland Park Zoo is a zoological garden around the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Occupying the western half of Woodland Park, the zoo began as a small menagerie on the estate of Guy C. Phinney, a Canadian-born lumber mill owner...
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| x Charles Darwin Foundation |
The Charles Darwin Foundation was founded in 1959, under the auspices of UNESCO and the World Conservation Union. The Foundation is dedicated to the conservation of the Galapagos Islands ecosystems. The Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) serves...
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| x Breeding Bird Survey |
A breeding bird survey monitors the status and trends of bird populations. Data from the survey are an important source for the range maps found in field guides. The North American Breeding Bird Survey is a joint project of the United States...
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| x National Naval Medical Center |
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The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, United States, also known as the Bethesda Naval Hospital, is considered the flagship of the United States Navy's system of medical centers. A federal institution, it conducts medical and...
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| x Wetlands International |
Wetlands International is a global non-profit organisation dedicated solely to the work of wetland conservation and sustainable management.
It was founded in 1954 as the International Wildfowl Inquiry and the organisation was focused on the...
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| x BirdLife International |
BirdLife International (formerly known as the International Council for Bird Preservation) is the international conservation organization working to protect the world’s birds and their habitats. It is a global conservation federation with a...
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| x Wildlife Conservation Society |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), formerly the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), endeavors to save wildlife and wild lands though careful use of science, conservation around the world, education and through a system of urban wildlife parks....
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| x National Aviary |
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The National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is America's only independent indoor nonprofit aviary. It is also America's largest aviary, and the only accorded honorary "National" status by the United States Congress.
The National Aviary is...
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| x Vermont Institute of Natural Science |
The Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) is a non-profit organization located at Quechee Gorge in the U.S. state of Vermont, with a mission of education and research to benefit the natural heritage and environment of the state.
One role VINS...
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| x American Bird Conservancy |
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American Bird Conservancy, is a charitable organization that works solely to conserve native wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. American Bird Conservancy is a membership organization that has received a top, four-star rating by...
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| x Alabama Ornithological Society | ||
| x Arkansas Audubon Society | ||
| x Ohio Ornithological Society |
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Welcoming backyard birdwatchers and researchers in the field alike,
the Ohio Ornithological Society is the only statewide organization
specifically devoted to fostering a deeper appreciation of wild
birds, fellowship and...
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| x Edward J. Laurent |
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Ed Laurent is a Spatial Ecologist who develops and delivers collaborative, science-based recommendations and tools that enable the implementation and evaluation of conservation activities. His specialties and expertise include geographic information...
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| x Jianguo Liu | ||
| x Michael B. Walters | ||
| x Frank Lupi | ||
| x Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology |
The Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology is a South African biological research and conservation institute based at the University of Cape Town. The mission statement of the Institute is “to promote and undertake scientific studies...
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| x Point count survey |
A method for sampling birds that typically involves one of more observers standing at a point in space marking observations of birds detected by sight and sound over a period of time. Detection times are often subdivided into 3, 5 and 10 minutes...
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| x Wildlife Information System for Disease Observation and Monitoring |
This tool allows access to data in the GAINS database. Data is broken down into several tables to simplify search options.
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| x Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance |
The aim of the Wild Bird Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance (GAINS) program is to expand operational field capabilities, improve the understanding of viral strains and transmission of influenza viruses in wild birds, and to disseminate...
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| x Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds | ||
| x Center for Tropical Research | ||
| x CIRAD | ||
| x Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals | ||
| x Department of Defense's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System | ||
| x Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut | ||
| x Veterinary Specialist Group | ||
| x Conabio | ||
| x Mountain Birdwatch | ||
| x North American Breeding Bird Survey |
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In 1966, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initiated the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) to monitor bird populations across the continental U.S. and Canada. The BBS is jointly coordinated by the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research...
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| x San Francisco Ornithological Society | ||
| x Population genetics of selected Appalachian species |
Collecting specimens of selected taxa throughout the Appalachian chain, to assess genetic diversity.
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| x Transect |
A transect is a path along which one records and counts occurrences of the phenomena of study (e.g. plants noting each instance).
It requires an observer to move along a fixed path and to count occurrences along the path and, at the same time,...
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| x Anecdotal evidence |
The expression anecdotal evidence has two distinct meanings.
(1) Evidence in the form of an anecdote or hearsay is called anecdotal if there is doubt about its veracity; the evidence itself is considered untrustworthy.
(2) Evidence, which may itself...
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| x Breeding Bird Atlas |
Breeding Bird Atlases are population survey projects that are designed
to cover large areas using a grid-based system, and are generally organized at the state or provincial
level. Breeding evidence for each species is categorized as ...
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| x BBIRD Field Protocol |
Martin, T.E., C.R. Paine, C.J. Conway, W.M. Hochachka, P. Allen, and
W. Jenkins. 1997. BBIRD Field Protocol. Montana Cooperative Wildlife
Research Unit, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA.
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| x Breeding Bird Census |
Johnston, D.W. 1990. Descriptions of surveys: Breeding Bird Census. Pages 33-36 in J.R.
Sauer, and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of
avian population trends. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Biol....
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| x Marshbird callback | ||
| x Mist net | ||
| x Nest monitoring | ||
| x Point transect survey | ||
| x Project Tanager |
Project Tanager was of three National
Science Experiments developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology designed to involve birders and amateur scientists across
the North American continent in scientific research. Project Tanager...
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| x Radio telemetry | ||
| x Spot map | ||
| x Territory mapping | ||
| x Cherokee National Forest Fall Migrant Bird Banding |
Objective: To pool the data of 3 volunteers from long-term high elevation banding stations and examine species trends, relate trends with habitat variables, and examine trends within individual species such as longevity, return data, differences in...
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| x David N. Pashley | ||
| x Gwenda L. Brewer | ||
| x David Whitehurst | ||
| x Dean W. Demarest | ||
| x Julie Hart | ||
