Monitoring
Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program
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Completed

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Alaska

Summer 2024 was the last year of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program at Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). Over 15 nesting seasons (2010-2024) U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees, volunteers, and partners captured and banded nearly 3000 birds and recaptured around 200 birds caught during previous breeding seasons. MAPS is a continent-wide program of approximately 500 songbird mist netting and banding stations operated during the breeding season and administered through the Institute for Bird Populations. The Kodiak MAPS was a partnership between USFWS, Kodiak NWR, Kodiak College, and the Kodiak Audubon Society.

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Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
Homeland of the Alutiiq Sugpiaq peoples, Kodiak Archipelago is located in the Gulf of Alaska, 30 miles from the nearest mainland coast, across the notoriously temperamental Shelikof Strait. Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge spans almost two million acres and covers more than 2/3rds of Kodiak Island,...
National Wildlife Refuge
Kodiak,AK

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Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship, Oh My!
The name may be a mouthful, but monitoring avian productivity and survivorship, also called MAPS, is just a fancy name for keeping track of the health of our bird populations. Sorry, no lions, tigers or bears here.
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Bird banding day offers lessons for the amateur to the expert  
Just how much is a bird in the hand worth? This summer community members--young and old, birders, biologists, and amateurs alike--answer that question for themselves at the Fort River Division of the Silvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge in Hadley. During periodic community bird-banding days,...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages an unparalleled network of public lands and waters called the National Wildlife Refuge System. With more than 570 refuges spanning the country, this system protects iconic species and provides some of the best wildlife viewing opportunities on Earth.
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Washington,DC