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Resources

Manuals, Field Methods
Bander Safety
Conference Proceedings and
Articles
Proposals
Avian Influenza Research
Project Resources
Museum Cases for your Banding
Station's Specimens
Manuals,
Field Methods
- Handbook
of field methods for monitoring landbirds. C. John Ralph, Geoffrey
R. Geupel, Peter Pyle, Thomas E. Martin, and David S. DeSante. 1993.
PSW-GTR-144. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.
Albany, CA.
- North
American Banding Council bander's manuals. Information on obtaining
these manuals is available at http://www.nabanding.net/pubs.html.
Manuals available (most in English, Spanish, and French):
- North American
bander's study guide
- North American
bander's manual for banding passerines and near-passerines
- Instructor's
guide to training passerine bird banders in North America
- North American
manual for banding hummingbirds
- North American
manual for raptor banding techniques
- North American
manual for banding shorebirds
- The
body grasp technique: a rapid method of removing birds from mist nets.
C. John Ralph. 2005. North American Bird Bander 30(2):65-70.
- Recommended
methods for monitoring change in bird populations by counting and capture
of migrants David J. T. Hussell and C. John Ralph. 2005. North American
Bird Bander 30(1):6-20.
- A
syllabus of training methods and resources for monitoring landbirds.
C. John Ralph, Geoffrey Geupel, Stephanie Jones, Kathleen Milne, and
Michael Rigney. 1993. U.S. Forest Service, Redwood Sciences Laboratory,
Arcata, California.
- Results
of a U.S./Canada workshop on monitoring of landbirds during migration
and recommendations towards a North American Migration Monitoring Program
(MMP). Peter Blancher, André Cyr, Sam Droege, David Hussell,
and Len Thomas. 1994. Unpublished report. (pdf, 4.3 MB)
Bander
Safety
- Capture
and banding of landbirds using mist nets: Job Hazard Analysis. C.
John Ralph, Linda L. Long, Josée Rousseau, Sherri Miller, and
Kim Hollinger. 2006. Available in hard copy or pdf from Linda
Long or C. John Ralph. This
formal document has been approved by the U.S. Forest Service Pacific
Southwest Research Station, meeting all prevailing federal safety requirements.
Conference
Proceedings and Articles
- Bird
conservation implementation and integration in the Americas: Proceedings
of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference. 2002 March
20-24; Asilomar, California; Volumes 1 and 2. C. John Ralph and Terrell
D. Rich, editors. 2005. PSW-GTR-191. USFS Forest Service, Pacific Southwest
Research Station, Albany, CA; 1,294 p. Also available in hard copy and
CD from Richard Schneider, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 West
Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO 80526-2098 or rschneider@fs.fed.us.
- Monitoring
bird populations using mist nets. C. John Ralph and Erica H. Dunn,
editors. 2004. Studies in Avian Biology no. 29. Allen Press, Lawrence,
KS. 211 p. View
table of contents. Ordering information is on the second page of
the linked document.
- The
status of the Willow and Pacific-slope flycatchers in northwestern California
and southern Oregon. Ralph, C.J. and K. Hollinger. 2003. P. 104-117
in: Ecology and conservation of the Willow Flycatcher. M. Sogge, B.
Kus, M. Whitfield, and S. Sferra, eds. Studies in Avian Biology 26.
- Monitoring
bird populations by point counts. C. John Ralph, John R. Sauer,
and Sam Droege, tech. eds. 1995. PSW-GTR-149. USFS Forest Service, Pacific
Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA. 181 p.
Proposals
Museum
Cases for your Banding Station's Specimens
We have some exciting
news. The NABC has obtained a source of free standard museum specimen
cabinets that are being stored for the moment in the Washington DC area.
These are about one cubic yard (40 inches deep, 29 inches wide, and
40 inches high), with about 10-15 specimen trays. They would be available
to NABC stations for shipping costs. Click
here for an application to become an official NABC member station.
For more information, please contact C. J.
Ralph (click for contact details).
Through
the efforts of the North American Banding Council (NABC), a nationwide
permit has been obtained from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to
allow banding stations to have readily available bird specimens for
training and data quality. Many birds come to stations, salvaged from
various sources, including the occasional sad mortality from our contentious
efforts.
If
you would like the details of the permit, please contact C.
J. Ralph. Some states will require an additional permit, but many
consider the federal banding permit sufficient.
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