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Literature Cited Dolton, D.D. (compiler). 2009. History and administration of the Webless Migratory Game Bird Research Program, 1995-2008. In Webless Migratory Game Bird Research Program, Project Abstracts – 2008. United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, Colorado. 66 pp. www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/NewReportsPublicat ions/Research/WMGBMR/WMGBR%20ABSTR ACTS%202008%20rev.pdf Sanderson, G.C., editor. 1977. Management of migratory shore and upland game birds in North America. International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Washington, D.C. 358 pp. Tacha, T.C., and C.E. Braun, editors. 1994. Migratory shore and upland game bird management in North America. International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Washington, D.C. 223 pp 4
Appendix A – Priority Information Needs for Migratory Shore and Upland Game Birds Priority information needs have been developed for the following groups: 1) mourning and white-winged doves; 2) hunted rails (sora, clapper, king, and Virginia) and Wilson’s snipe; 3) sandhill cranes; 4) American woodcock; 5) American coots, common moorhens, and purple gallinules; and 6) band-tailed pigeon, scaly-naped pigeon, Zenaida dove, and white-tipped dove. Proposals should address the priorities listed below for each species group. A full description and justification are available at www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/NewReportsPublications/Research/WMGBMR/WMGBMR.html. Mourning and White-winged Dove Priorities: � Implement a national banding program for doves � Implement a national dove parts collection survey � Develop independent measures of abundance and/or trends for doves � Create a database of predictors of dove vital rates Hunted Rails and Wilson’s snipe Priorities: � Implement a national monitoring program � Continue to improve the Harvest Information Program sampling frame � Improve the rails and snipe parts collection survey � Estimate vital rates to support population modeling Sandhill Crane Priorities: � Improve Sandhill Crane Harvest-Management Decision Structures � Improve the Eastern Population Sandhill Crane Survey � Better understand distribution and population trends for sandhill crane populations in the west � Assess Effects of Habitat Changes on the Rocky Mountain Population of Sandhill Cranes � Improve Population Abundance Estimates for the Mid-Continent Population of Sandhill Cranes American Woodcock Priorities: � Develop a demographic-based model for assessing American woodcock population response to harvest and habitat management � Develop communication strategies to increase support for policies and practices that benefit American woodcock and other wildlife of young forests � Improve understanding of migration, breeding, and wintering habitat quality for American woodcock � Improve the American woodcock Singing-ground Survey American Coot, Common Moorhen, and Purple Gallinule Priorities: � Implement a national marshbird monitoring program � Support National Wetlands Inventory updates and improvements � Continue to improve the Harvest Information Program sampling frame � Determine the origin of harvest in select high harvest states in order to help inform monitoring programs Band-tailed Pigeon, Zenaida Dove, White-tipped Dove, and Scaly-naped Pigeon Priorities: � Reliable demographics of band-tailed pigeons � Association of food availability with abundance and distribution of band-tailed pigeons � Status assessment of white-tipped doves in south Texas to determine distribution, population abundance, and biology � Population and harvest data collected annually for Zenaida doves and scaly-naped pigeons � Adaptive harvest strategy for Zenaida doves and scaly-naped pigeons 5
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Wildlife Resource Agency, Obion (So
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American Woodcock HABITAT USE AND O
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Figure 2: Map of a pointing dog tra
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ASSESSMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUA
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ivers, marshes, and shrub swamps. V
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adio-marked broods 5-7 days per wee
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adult female, considerably lower th
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FACTORS AFFECTING DETECTION OF AMER
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Marshbirds THE EFFECT OF WATERFOWL
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Table 2. Relative Importance of mod
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nests to account for repeated measu
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Literature Cited Bogner, H. E. and
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a common nest substrate. Tall forms
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EVALUATION OF AN EXPERT-BASED LANDS
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL MARS
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truthed before the actual survey. H
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IMPLEMENTATION OF A NATIONAL MARSHB
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Table 1. Numbers of individuals of
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was required because it was not rea
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ESTIMATING POPULATION TRENDS, RELAT
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This abstract represents a final ab
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volunteers to cover new sites in la
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Plain of Louisiana (Figure 1). We s
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DEVELOPING OPTIMAL SURVEY TECHNIQUE
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Table 3. Habitat measurements recor
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