RMBO's Regional Monitoring Program (RMBO RMP)

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO)

Publication_Date: Unknown

Title: RMBO's Regional Monitoring Program (RMBO RMP)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: database

Online_Linkage: <http://www.rmbo.org>

Online_Linkage: <http://www.rmbo.org/conservation/mcb.html>

Description:

Abstract:

This program was known as Monitoring Colorado's Birds (MCB) before it went regional. RMBO's Regional Monitoring Program (RMBO RMP) is a regional bird-monitoring project administered by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. The project has two main components: 1) a program of 30 point transects in each of Colorado's 13 main habitats and 2) a program of censussing directly those species (termed "special species") whose ranges, behaviors, and/or ecologies cause them to be under-represented on the transects. A variety of survey techniques (e.g., point transects, line transects, and colony counts) are used to obtain trend and status data for regularly-occurring breeding species in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.

Purpose:

Phase 1: To monitor population status and change of regularly breeding birds; Phase 2: To do demographic studies of declining/increasing species to identify causes of population change and for the purposes of developing management information.

Supplemental_Information:

Game species and federally-listed Threatened or Endangered (T&E) species will not receive specific attention under RMBO RMP, as monitoring programs already exist for these species under other mandates. However, data generated by RMBO RMP on these species will be available and could be used to supplement other management information for these species. Annual summaries results and periodic trend analyses will be provided to all participating agencies via hard-copy reports, publications, and the internet.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1998

Ending_Date: 2006

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: In work

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Annually

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -114.82

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -96.44

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.00

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 31.33

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: monitoring

Theme_Keyword: surveys

Theme_Keyword: populations

Theme_Keyword: trends

Theme_Keyword: distribution

Theme_Keyword: breeding range

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: USA

Place_Keyword: U.S.

Place_Keyword: Colorado

Place_Keyword: CO

Place_Keyword: Wyoming

Place_Keyword: WY

Place_Keyword: North Dakota

Place_Keyword: ND

Place_Keyword: South Dakota

Place_Keyword: SD

Place_Keyword: New Mexico

Place_Keyword: NM

Place_Keyword: Utah

Place_Keyword: UT

Place_Keyword: Arizona

Place_Keyword: AZ

Place_Keyword: Bird Conservation Region 16

Place_Keyword: BCR 16

Place_Keyword: Bird Conservation Region 18

Place_Keyword: BCR 18

Place_Keyword: Bird Conservation Region 10

Place_Keyword: BCR 10

Place_Keyword: Bird Conservation Region 17

Place_Keyword: BCR 17

Place_Keyword: shortgrass prairie

Place_Keyword: southern rockies

Place_Keyword: northern rockies

Place_Keyword: badlands and prairies

Place_Keyword: Colorado plateau

Place_Keyword: Rocky Mountains

Place_Keyword: Great Plains

Taxonomy:

Keywords/Taxon:

Taxonomic_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Taxonomic_Keywords: multiple species

Taxonomic_Keywords: birds

Taxonomic_System:

Classification_System/Authority:

Classification_System_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: American Ornithologists' Union

Publication_Date: 1998

Title: Check-list of North American Birds

Edition: Seventh

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: book

Taxonomic_Procedures:

Field observers have pre-existing knowledge of bird identification or they use published field guides.

General_Taxonomic_Coverage:

All the regularly-breeding bird species of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.

Taxonomic_Classification:

Taxon_Rank_Name: Kingdom

Taxon_Rank_Value: Animalia

Applicable_Common_Name: animals

Taxonomic_Classification:

Taxon_Rank_Name: Phylum

Taxon_Rank_Value: Chordata

Applicable_Common_Name: chordates

Taxonomic_Classification:

Taxon_Rank_Name: Subphylum

Taxon_Rank_Value: Vertebrata

Applicable_Common_Name: vertebrates

Taxonomic_Classification:

Taxon_Rank_Name: Class

Taxon_Rank_Value: Aves

Applicable_Common_Name: birds

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints: None

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

Contact_Person: David Hanni

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 14500 Lark Bunting Lane

City: Brighton

State_or_Province: CO

Postal_Code: 80603-8311

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 970-482-1707

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: david.hanni@rmbo.org

Data_Set_Credit:

Partner institutions: Colorado Division of Wildlife, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Colorado State University, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Wyoming Department of Game and Fish, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Leukering, T., M.F. Carter, A. Panjabi, D. Faulkner, and R. Levad.

Publication_Date: Unpublished material

Title:

Monitoring Colorado's Birds: The plan for count-based monitoring.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Other_Citation_Details: Document is available from distributor.

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

All technicians are highly-skilled field ornithologists and each goes through a training session at the beginning of the season to ensure that the field protocol is fully understood and that distance-estimation skills are reasonably similar (within 10% of true value) among crew members.

Logical_Consistency_Report: not applicable

Completeness_Report:

There are approximately 1000 point count transects, 448 lake surveys, and 12 focused species surveys.

Lineage:

Methodology:

Methodology_Type: Field

Methodology_Identifier:

Methodology_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Methodology_Keyword: point transect

Methodology_Keyword: line transect

Methodology_Keyword: colony count

Methodology_Description:

Habitat-based, permanent transects and plots, no roadside bias. Stratified by habitat, minimum of 30 transects each per habitat type, total = approximately 1000 transects. Randomly selected habitat blocks from a much larger pool of available habitat blocks statewide on public lands. Within sampling blocks, start point and transect compass direction randomly selected and permanently mapped. 15 points per transect, 250 m between points, total transect length 3.5 km. Transect location will not be changed if habitat is significantly modified by management actions or natural processes. Use distance sampling (to nearest m using laser samplers) for each species detected; each transect sampled annually.

Methodology_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Leukering, T. and R. Levad.

Publication_Date: 2000

Title: Monitoring Colorado's Birds: Protocols.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Other_Citation_Details:

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory unpublished document, 16 pp. (Available from distributor.)

Methodology_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Buckland, S.T., D.R. Anderson, K.P. Burnham, and J.L. Laake.

Publication_Date: 1993

Title:

Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: book

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: London.

Publisher: Chapman and Hall.

Other_Citation_Details: Reprinted 1999 by RUWPA, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Methodology:

Methodology_Type: Lab

Methodology_Description:

We used the computer program MONITOR (Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 2000) to model the efficiency of 30 pilot transects run in each of three habitats in 1998 (Leukering and Carter 1999). Specifically, we used MONITOR to determine the threshold for the coefficient of variation (CV; Standard Deviation/Mean) associated with point-transect data that will generate useful monitoring information. A CV reflects the overall variability of data scaled against the mean; that is, species with large abundances but high variability have CVs similar to those of species with low abundance and low variability. CVs are a function of factors inherent to a species (its abundance and variability in nature) and statistical considerations such as sample size and method of sampling. MONITOR indicates that for species with associated CVs of less than 1.00, we will be able to detect 3.0%/year declines within 30 years of monitoring, with a statistical significance of p=0.1 and power of 0.8. For species with CVs of less than 0.50, MONITOR indicates that we will be able to detect declines of 3.0%/year within 12 years.

Methodology_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

Publication_Date: 2000

Title: Program MONITOR.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Other_Citation_Details: www.mp1-pwrc.usgs.gov/powcase/Manual.htm version11.2000.

Methodology_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Leukering, T. and M.F. Carter.

Publication_Date: 1999

Title:

Colorado Birds Monitored by 2001: Results of point-transects in three Colorado habitats with an appendix of results of special species monitoring.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Other_Citation_Details:

Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory unpublished report, 34 pp. (Available from distributor.)

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Density estimates for bird species are derived using program DISTANCE (Thomas, L., J.L. Laake, J.F. Derry, S.T. Buckland, D.L. Borchers, D.R. Anderson, K.P. Burnham, S. Strindberg, S.L. Hedley, M.L. Burt, F.F.C. Marques, J.H. Pollard, and R.M. Fewster. 1998. Distance 3.5. Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment, University of St. Andrews, UK.).

Process_Date: Unknown

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Data include: year, location, species, number of birds, density, etc. For special species that are surveyed directly, data may also include: number of active nests, number of juveniles, outcome of nest, etc.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

A complete description of variables is available from the distributor.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

Contact_Person: David Hanni

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 14500 Lark Bunting Lane

City: Brighton

State_or_Province: CO

Postal_Code: 80603-8311

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 970-482-1707

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: David.Hanni@rmbo.org

Resource_Description: RMBO Regional Monitoring Program

Distribution_Liability:

No warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the accuracy or utility of these data.

Custom_Order_Process:

Please contact the distributor to order data. Plans are underway to incorporate the data into the Avian Knowledge Network. See <http://www.avianknowledge.net/>

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20070216

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jim Lowe

Contact_Organization: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 159 Sapsucker Woods Road

City: Ithaca

State_or_Province: NY

Postal_Code: 14850

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 607-254-2413

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: JDL6@cornell.edu

Contact_Instructions: E-Mail is preferred

Metadata_Standard_Name:

FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999