Sonoran Joint Venture Archives - Migratory Bird Joint Ventures

Long-term Bird Data Collection Yields Insights for the Future

Emily Clark2023-09-25T16:51:33+00:00September 25th, 2023|Bird Conservation, Collaboration, Research|

The Sonoran Joint Venture has been supporting long-term ecological monitoring for decades. This spring we partnered with the Tucson Audubon Society (TAS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revive a Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) bird banding station in the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area in southeast Arizona. This station was previously [...]

Building Capacity for a Growing Motus Network

Emily Clark2023-07-24T22:00:19+00:00July 24th, 2023|Bird Conservation, Collaboration, Research|

While “Motus” may seem like the latest bird conservation buzzword, the Motus Wildlife Tracking System (Motus) is a program of Birds Canada that was launched in 2014. It has continued to gain popularity as a tool to study the ecology and conservation of migratory animals. Radio telemetry has been used since the 1960’s to track [...]

Sonoran Desert Breeding Bird Surveys

Jennie Duberstein2014-08-12T19:53:51+00:00March 5th, 2014|Bird Conservation, Collaboration|

Development of a monitoring strategy of poorly-monitored bird species and species of concern of the Sonoran Desert.