Hawk Migration Significance

Then I will put an altitude and movement sensor chip in each one of the birds and predators and set the free to continue their everyday life. Then I will be checking their altitudes every hour through the chip I placed in them for two weeks, the sensor will only give me the altitude date of the birds/predators when they are moving/flying. Finally I after the two weeks I will make two graphs, one for each predator and one for each bird and I will compare the heights they fly

increase in hawks, weasels, badgers, and foxes to this new habitat. Eagles and bear populations

The red tailed hawk is a creature that can be found in largely green areas of land, like golf courses or any wild life like areas around the area. However, there is such thing as a Red tailed Hawk living in a commercialized society like the big city. In this article by Joan L. Morrison, Isabel G. W. Gottlieb, and Kyle E. Pias, they want to find out what the difference between city Red Tailed Hawks is and what the difference between Urban Red Tailed Hawks is.

The Northern Cardinal, in the family Cardinalidae, is a stunning bird that lives mostly in the southeastern area of the United States. The purpose of this paper is to inform you about its nesting, mating, and eating habits, its range, migration, habitat, predators and body structure. This bird is extremely unique and there is so much to learn about its amazing qualities.

Lost species affect the environment negatively and can disrupt ecosystems. Since the 1940s, many conservation efforts have been successful in helping the whooping crane population increase. By failing to ensure that whooping crane habitats have enough food in their winter habitat, the positive effects of conservation have been set back. The State of Texas breached the Migratory Bird Treaty and is liable for the deaths of whooping cranes. Given the outcome of the lawsuit, this situation could happen again in the future. As Canadian citizens, it’s extremely difficult to impact foreign legal decisions, but we can lobby our own government and legislators to encourage more participation in future international issues like this. We can also work with environmental organizations to work towards common goals for the benefit of the environment. We know that habitats must be properly protected and maintained by all parties involved to help not only the whooping crane, but other species as well, recover their population and thrive. Even just on our own as concerned citizens, we can raise awareness about the whooping crane. Although it might not seem like much, the effort that citizens put in can make a huge difference in the health of our endangered

This situation requires intervention. “Migratory Bird specialist

Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) and Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) populations have been steadily declining in the last decade. This has raised concerns among wildlife biologists as to what is the driving force behind these declines. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is the main managing agency of waterfowl in the United States. The USFWS has decided to lower hunting bag limits in effort to decrease the population decline. In this report, I have reported the life history of the scaup, background to the population decline, current regulations, and other material dealing with the scaup population decline. I have created a proposed management plan to improve scaup habitat and compensate for the population decline.

Over 50% of the land base of Haida Gwaii is under protection, thus, it is expected that some nesting and foraging habitats of A. h. fannini are already under protection as they exist within these areas (Province of British Columbia & Council of the Haida Nation, 2007). Furthermore, the Haida Gwaii Strategic Land Use Agreement (SLUA) has designated zoning of Old Growth Management Areas to protect

With grassland being threatened and eliminated daily it is important to research grassland nesting birds to determine population estimates, how they are responding, and what management, if any, needs to be done to conserve these birds and their habitat.

The existence of the Florida panther is threatened by extinction processes because their current habitat is simply too small and fragmented for

For the successful recovery of an endangered species, accurate monitoring of occupancy and spatial distribution must be conducted to better understand the factors that limit their occurrence (Brubaker 2013). Thus one objective of the ad hoc Amargosa vole team and the CDFW-funded DRIP project undertaken in 2016

This paper presents an analysis of various forms of nonlethal species capture techniques applicable to waterfowl and other aquatic-prone bird species. The methods described therein are humane in that they pose little to no harm to the species, are economically feasible and applicable to natural resource managers on a wide scale of budget, and are effective in their usage. The described techniques consist of a remote controlled sedative injection device that utilizes an IM anesthetic and syringe for nonlethal immobilization of the animal, a night-time inflatable water boat approach coupled with dip net and handheld spotlight for minimal nest disturbance, a modified leg hold trap that utilizes nonlethal customizations to minimize injury to the animal while remaining effective in use, and a modified rocket net setup that can be staked into shallow water substrates for capture of aquatic bird species.

Despite sharing common territory with the well-studied ocelot, little research has been done on the jaguarundi. The preferred habitat of the species is currently unknown as the jaguarundi has been spotted in a variety of different biomes, though it is thought they may prefer living along the borders between habitats (Giordano, 2016). Previous spatial analysis has been focused on phenotypic changes or based on out-of-date data (da Silva et al., 2016; Wilcox et al., n.d.). Using 336 records gathered from the year 2000 to 2015, this project will identify priority jaguarundi habitat and which environmental variables have the largest impact on where the species lives. Priority habitat will be determined using two methods: Mahalanobis D2 using SAS code and maximum entropy using the program MaxEnt (Duncan and Dunn, 2001; Rotenberry et al., 2006). Both will be trained on 70% or the data points and then checked against the remaining 30%. The chosen environmental variables will then be stacked to form a graded map of priority habitat. This map will then be contrasted with the existing range map and the Bordercats Working Group map of priority jaguarundi habitat in northern Mexico (Wilcox et al., n.d.). The ranges of the maps will likely match up relatively well, but the new map will allow for greater specificity in policy decisions and a better understanding of what environmental

Though recent satellite footage and picture form bird photographer has showed sightings Australia, New Zealand, and the Western Cape of South Africa. Based on census in 2011 the populations in Total are 170, with 100 of those being mature. While this is an increase from before 1998 where it struggled to have more than 50 mature individuals, its overall status in terms of population is a declining one. Many of the major threats of time such as from the introduction of cattle to current day facing the spread of diseases like avian

Habitat data collection. Once at a nest box, we used a meter tape measure to mark a 20-meter diameter circle around the site. Two variables were measured in the near-site area, both within and surrounding this circle, and five variables were measured within the circle. First, the urban-natural rating was taken by evaluating the general surroundings of the nest box. This is a