Area Searches
Banding
Encounters
Nest Observations
Nestling Ageing
Point Counts
Spot Mapping

Use the list to the left to find category specific instructions, field data forms, database structures, links to online data entry and query tools (if available) and other resources for people collecting data on songbirds. The methods supported here follow national Partners In Flight standards as described in Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds (Ralph et. al 1993) (version en español) and the Statistical Guide to Data Analysis of Avian Monitoring Programs (Nur et. al 1999).

Appendix 2 of the Palomarin handbook also contains instructions and metadata for most of these methods.

Tools

• Instructions

Instructions

Statistical Guide to Data Analysis of Avian Monitoring Programs (1999)     (Adobe PDF Document) This Guide is intended to provide guidance to field biologists wishing to analyze data collected on terrestrial bird populations, as part of an avian population monitoring program. A second objective is to provide information that will help biologists design such programs. The audience is similar to that for the Handbook of Field Methods (Ralph et al. 1993), the Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts (Ralph et al. 1995), and in many ways this Statistical Guide to Data Analysis of Avian Monitoring Programs can be a useful complement to the field methods handbook.

Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds (1993)     (HTML Document) This handbook is a compilation of methods that can be used to assay population size, demographics, and status of many species of birds occurring in a wide variety of habitats. The handbook will prove useful to field biologists, managers, and scientists anywhere in the New World from the arctic through the tropics. The methods include four types of censuses for determining population size and trends, mist-netting and nest searches to determine demographic parameters, and other methods that will be useful in operating a monitoring station, including habitat and weather observations, and suggestions for training personnel and possibilities for detailed studies. Suggestions of specific methods and data forms are included.

Manual de Métodos de Campo Para el Monitoreo de Aves Terrestres      (HTML Document) Spanish language version of Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds (http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/gtr-144/00-front.html)