AERIAL SURVEY TECHNIQUES FOR BREEDING WHOOPING CRANES

Since the discovery of nesting whooping cranes in Wood Buffalo National Park, the Canadian Wildlife Service has conducted aerial surveys to monitor the population. Aerial survey techniques have varied over the years; however, they have generally followed the techniques used by the author since 1991....

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Main Author: JOHNS, BRIAN W.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2010
Subjects:
aerial survey
Grus americana
whooping crane
Wood Buffalo National Park
Animal Sciences
Behavior and Ethology
Biodiversity
Ornithology
Population Biology
Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology
Wood Buffalo
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nacwgproc/135
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nacwgproc/article/1121/viewcontent/Johns___Aerial_survey.pdf
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Summary:Since the discovery of nesting whooping cranes in Wood Buffalo National Park, the Canadian Wildlife Service has conducted aerial surveys to monitor the population. Aerial survey techniques have varied over the years; however, they have generally followed the techniques used by the author since 1991. The technique involves flying a combination of circular flights and transects over known nesting territories and similar looking marshes likely to contain breeding whooping cranes. These aerial surveys account for nearly 100% of the breeding whooping cranes each year.

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