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Title: Waterbird Conservation Council Technical Services Committee


1
Waterbird Conservation Council Technical
Services Committee
2
Vision of Technical Services Committee
  • Provide leadership and guidance on technical
    issues
  • Focus on prioritized scientific needs, yet remain
    responsive

3
Objectives of Technical Services Committee
  • Promote research and monitoring objectives of
    NAWCP
  • Facilitate setting population and habitat
    objectives
  • Coordinate completion/revision of species status
    assessments
  • Formulate and promote an overall strategy for
    waterbird monitoring
  • Interact with other relevant organizations and
    partnerships

4
Priority Tasks 2005
  • Complete conservation status assessment of
    marshbirds
  • Complete monitoring needs framework
  • Revise status assessment process in anticipation
    of expanding scope of Initiative to include all
    of the Americas

5
Marshbird Conservation Status Assessment
  • Marshbirds include loons, grebes, bitterns,
    Rallidae, Sungrebe, Sunbittern, Limpkin, cranes
    (43 spp)
  • Continental assessment comparable to
    colonially-nesting species in NAWCP

6
Marshbird Task Force
  • Kathy Parsons, Chair Bruce Peterjohn, Chair Tech
    Services Committee Jennifer Wheeler Eric
    Mellink Stephen Brown Stephanie Schmidt
    Jillian Drury

7
Expert opinion sought on draft species profiles
8
Compilation and Calibration
  • 30 species experts provided input
  • 35 scientists and managers participated in
    workshop
  • 52 experts performed regional calibration
  • Overall, 84 experts authored assessment

9
Conservation Status and Global Distribution
NORTH AMERICA WESTERN HEMISPHERE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE COSMOPOLITAN PERIPHERAL
UNKNOWN Gray-breasted Crake Rufous-necked Wood-Rail Uniform Crake Colombian Crake Paint-billed Crake
HIGHEST CONCERN Guam Rail Zapata Rail Caribbean Coot Black Rail
HIGH CONCERN American Bittern Yellow Rail Ruddy Crake King Rail Hawaiian Coot Whooping Crane Least Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Pinnated Bittern Least Bittern Sora Yellow-breasted Crake Spotted Rail Purple Gallinule Sungrebe Sunbittern Limpkin Red-throated Loon Yellow-billed Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Spotless Crake Purple Swamphen
MODERATE CONCERN Sandhill Crane White-throated Crake Clapper Rail Virginia Rail American Coot Arctic Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Common Moorhen
LOW CONCERN Gray-necked Wood-Rail
LOWEST CONCERN
10
Marshbird Assessment Next Steps
  • Finalize priorities
  • Communicate results on website and in initiative
    update
  • Utilize comments generated by project to optimize
    upcoming revision of assessment (enlarged
    geographic and taxonomic scope)

11
Waterbird Monitoring Framework
  • Outline for document under consideration by
    committee
  • US monitoring priorities communicated to USNABCI
  • Marshbirds
  • Near-shore and pelagic
  • Improve methodology for colony surveys
  • Non-breeding season
  • Improve access to data

12
Technical Services Next Steps
  • NAWCP version 2 initiative update (marshbirds,
    other)
  • Finalize monitoring framework
  • Status assessment revision/expansion
  • Geographical priorities
  • Other?
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