AZ/TUC/Ecology/Tucson Bird Count

From All4Education

http://www.tucsonbirds.org/current/Current.asp

2008 Spring TBC: April 15 - May 15!

The Tucson Bird Count (TBC) is a cooperative project begun by members of Tucson's science, conservation, and birding communities. Each year, TBC volunteers (each on a morning of their choosing) collect data on the abundances and distributions of bird species from hundreds of sites in and around the Tucson area. In addition to being a lot of fun, the TBC emphasizes a scientifically rigorous survey design to ensure quality data for a number of uses. Currently, the TBC consists of two programs, the annual Route Program and the quarterly Park Monitoring Program.

Uses of TBC data include monitoring the status of the Tucson-area bird community over time, finding the areas of town and the land use practices that are succeeding at sustaining native birds, and investigating the ecology of birds in human-inhabited landscapes. Data and analyses, including distribution maps for most species counted in the TBC, are publicly available on the TBC web site. A detailed list of some of the publications, projects, presentations, and press that the TBC has produced or contributed to so far is available at the TBC Press Room site. http://www.tucsonbirds.org/results/Pubs.html