Research TopicsWildlife & Fish: Bird Monitoring
Selected Publications for Monitoring Landbirds
Manuals and Field Methods
- Ralph, C.J., G.R. Geupel, P. Pyle, T.E. Martin, and D.F. DeSante.
1993. Handbook
of field methods for monitoring landbirds. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-144.
Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture. 41 pp.
- Ralph, C.J., K.R. Hollinger, and R.I. Frey. 2004. Redwood
Sciences Laboratory and the Klamath Demographic Monitoring Network mist-netting
station management procedures. U.S. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences
Laboratory, Arcata, California. 57 pp.
- Ralph, C.J., M. Widdowson, B. Widdowson, B. O’Donnell, and R.I.
Frey. 2008. Tortuguero
bird monitoring station protocol for the Tortuguero Integrated Bird
Monitoring Program. U.S. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory,
Arcata, California. 61 pp.
- Ralph, C.J., G. Geupel, S. Jones, K. Milne, and M. Rigney. 1993. A
syllabus of training methods and resources for monitoring landbirds.
Western Working Group, Partners in Flight, Colorado Bird Observatory,
Brighton, Colorado.
- Sakai, W.H. and C.J. Ralph. 2002. A
tabular format of Pyle's ageing and sexing methods for landbirds.
North American Bird Bander 27(3): 77-90.
- Ralph, C.J. 2005. The
body grasp technique: A rapid method of removing birds from mist nets.
North American Bird Bander 30(2): 65-70.
- Ralph, C.J., K. Hollinger, and R.I. Frey. 2008. The
Bander's Merit Badge. U.S. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory,
Arcata, California. 7 pp.
Landbird Monitoring Articles
- Bart, J., K.P. Burnham, E.H. Dunn, C.M. Francis, and C.J. Ralph. 2004.
Goals
and strategies for estimating trends in landbird abundance. Journal
of Wildlife Management 68:611-626.
- Bart, J., S. Droege, P. Geissler, B. Peterjohn, and C.J. Ralph. 2004.
Density
estimation in wildlife surveys. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32 (4):
1242-1247.
- Bart, J. and C.J. Ralph. 2005. The
need for a North American coordinated bird monitoring program. pp.
982-981 in: C.J. Ralph and T.D. Rich (Eds.). Bird conservation implementation
and integration in the Americas: Proceedings of the third international
Partners in Flight conference. 2002 March 20-24; Asilomar, California;
vol. 2. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research
Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Ralph, C.J., G. Butcher, K.K. Busse, and J.S. Bradley. 1994. Shared
migratory birds between North and Latin America. U.S. Forest Service,
Redwood Sciences Laboratory, Arcata, California, and Laboratory of Ornithology,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Contact
- C.
John Ralph for full appendices.
- Ralph, C.J. and K. Hollinger. 2003. The
status of the Willow and Pacific-slope flycatchers in northwestern California
and southern Oregon. Pp 104-117 in Ecology and Conservation of the
Willow Flycatcher. M. Sogge, B. Kus, S. Sferra, and M. Whitfield, eds.
Studies in Avian Biology 26.
Conference Proceedings
- Ralph, C.J., S. Droege, and J.R. Sauer (Eds.). 1995. Monitoring
bird populations by point counts. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-149. Albany,
CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department
of Agriculture. 187 pp.
- Ralph, C.J. and E.H. Dunn (Eds). 2004. Monitoring bird populations
using mist nets. Studies in Avian Biology no. 29. Allen Press, Lawrence,
KS. 211 pp. View Table
of Contents. Information on ordering can be found at http://www.cooper.org/publications/sab.htm.
- Ralph, C.J. and T.D. Rich (Eds). 2005. Bird
conservation implementation and integration in the Americas: Proceedings
of the Third International Partners in Flight conference. 2002 March
20-24; Asilomar, California; Volume 1 and Volume 2. Gen. Tech. Rep.
PSW-GTR-191. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 651 and 643 pp.
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