Breeding bird survey data

  • North American Breeding Bird Survey
    • Managed by United States Geological Survey
    • Collected by volunteers
    • Over 4100 survey routes located across the U.S. and Canada
    • Each route is 24.5 miles with stops situated every 0.5 miles
    • At each stop a 3-min point count is conducted. Every bird that seen withing 0.25 miles or heard is recorded.
  • In-class example using bobwhite quail data.

  • Overview of bobwhite quail
  • What is going on with bobwhite quail population numbers?
  • Accessing breeding Bird Survey data
  • What research questions related to bobwhite quail could be answered using the Breeding bird survey data?
    • Group discussion
  • Determining if a research question has already been answered
    • Google scholar
    • Other research tools
  • Pairing with other data sets
    • Weather data
    • Land use and land cover data