| Abstract: | An essential component of shorebird conservation is identifying, protecting, and managing high-priority stopover sites and migration habitats crucial to the long-term persistence of migrating shorebirds. Because of the tremendous variability in migrant shorebird occurrence patterns in the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S., it is labor- and cost-intensive to locate the majority of sites used heavily by shorebirds in any one migration period. Because WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988 Doppler) or NEXRAD (NEXt generation weather RADar) has been useful for locating migrating birds and revealing migration patterns and important roosting sites of some species, we undertook a pilot field study to determine wheterh it also might be feasible to use NEXRAD for locating important stopover sites used by migrating shorebirds in the prairie potholes landscape. Coordinated efforts to advance the applicability of radar technology to bird conservation are underway. |
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| ProdID: | 76779 |
| Citation Author: | Melcher, Cynthia P.; Skagen, Susan K.; Randall, Lori |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | iii, 8 p. |
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| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 2006-1033 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Use of NEXRAD to study shorebird migration in the Prairie Pothole region: a feasibility study; 2006; OFR; 2006-1033; Melcher, Cynthia P.; Skagen, Susan K.; Randall, Lori |
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| Text: | Use of NEXRAD to study shorebird migration in the Prairie Pothole region: a feasibility study; 2006; OFR; 2006-1033; Melcher, Cynthia P.; Skagen, Susan K.; Randall, Lori |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Products/Publications/21596/21596.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 2006 00:00 -0600 |
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