The Sonoran Joint Venture, Tucson Audubon Society, and the Bureau of Land Management partnered to revive a Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) station in the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, Arizona.
Data from MoSI, a long-term bird monitoring program, is being used to help measure the impact of vegetation restoration in the Colorado River Delta.
The MAPS database is a unique and valuable scientific resource consisting of over 2 million bird capture records from across North America and spanning more than three decades. A new web application makes it easier for researchers to use the database and for everyone to understand how bird populations are faring.
Autonomous Recording Units can be a great supplement to human surveys when there is a lack of funds, time, or accessibility, and can provide insight into bird activity that are impossible from a small number of human visits.