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Español Effects of the Ryan Wildfire on wintering grassland birds and winter grassland structure and composition in southeastern Arizona
Project Description On 29 April 2002, the Ryan wildfire swept through 38,000 acres of the Sonoita Valley in southeastern Arizona. This fire offers a valuable opportunity to conduct post-fire research to determine the effects of such a substantial wildfire on wintering grassland birds and the structure and composition of the grasslands on which they rely.
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Arizona’s Important Bird Areas Program: sites inventory component
Project Description Tucson Audubon Society (TAS) leads the Important Bird Area Program (IBA) for the state of Arizona. This program works with Audubon chapters, agency biologists, university scientists, regional non-profits, and citizens to provide a statewide inventory of sites critical to birds of conservation concern, sites where birds congregate in large numbers, or sites with
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Arizona/Sonora bird migration monitoring network
Project Description This project is a coordinated series of six sites (three mountain and three lowland, four in Arizona and two in Sonora) selected to measure and monitor bird migration across a broad front of southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora through the use of constant effort mist netting. The six sites selected comprise a variety
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The Desert Bird Conservation Plan
Project Description Migrant and resident bird populations of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of southeastern California, southern Nevada, western Arizona, and northwest Mexico face numerous threats. As development increases across these habitats, local and federal agencies will require a comprehensive guide for managing affected bird communities of the deserts. The Desert Bird Conservation Plan (BCP)
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo habitat requirements and riparian habitat inventory of the Salt River Valley and the lower San Pedro River, Arizona, USA
Project Description Western populations of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) have decreased and the species’ future is uncertain. Despite this, the basic habitat requirements of this species are largely unknown. Some of the largest concentrations of the western Yellow-billed Cuckoo occur within the Sonoran Joint Venture boundaries, including along the Salt and the San
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