(photo by Jeff Birek)
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In 2002, RMBO, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management,
Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and Wyoming Partners in Flight, initiated a statewide
program, entitled Monitoring Wyoming’s Birds (MWB). We modeled MWB after Colorado’s
bird monitoring program to obtain count-based data for most diurnal, regularly breeding
landbird species in the state using a randomized and habitat-stratified design.
Using the Wyoming GAP Analysis Land Cover GIS layer, blocks of habitat large enough
to support a 3.5 km transect were randomly selected within six habitats throughout
the state. We also established additional transects in the Bighorn and Shoshone
National Forests. MWB currently is successfully monitoring more than 80 landbird
species across the state.
Click here to download
MWB Annual Reports
Click here to query
data from the MWB point count database
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