Project goal:
1) To determine the best long-term monitoring sites for hummingbirds in western USA and northwestern Mexico; 2) to effectively sample their populations sizes so that trends can be detected; and 3) to use the resulting information to assist in their preservation and protection.

Project keywords:

Overall project description:

Status: Active

Year started: 2002
Year ended:
Comments:

Season(s) and frequency:
Migration and Breeding, biweekly from Mar through Oct

Geographic area covered:
Arizona, California, British Columbia, and a possible expansion to Colorado.

Important bird areas:

National parks and other protected areas:

Type of habitats:
Varied including Riparian, Oak Woodland, Mesquite Grassland, Pine-Oak woodland, California shrub and others.

Primary species covered:
Hummingbirds

Methods with details of protocol and comments:
Our research is a systematic banding study which baits hummingbirds with feeders. We band hummingbirds once every other week from late March through October. We also use other counting techniques to assess population sizes of hummingbirds.

Sample design:
We choose sites based upon geographic factors, such as elevation, longitude, and latitude, and vegetation types.

Data (format and access):
Access Data Base

Sample size:

Results (format and publication/availability):
Reports and publications are available from Susan Wethington at the address below.

Trends and time series availability:
not yet

Relevant publications:

Funding source:
National Park Service, Volunteers

Lead Institution: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Database custodian: Hummingbird Monitoring Network

Partner Institution(s):
There are no partners identified for this project.

Brief description of the application of the information derived from the monitoring effort:
Our results will provide land managers with information about which areas support a high diversity of hummingbirds, which areas are important breeding sites, the timing of their occurrence, and seasonal movement patterns that may indicate the size of the areas needed to maintain hummingbird diversity and abundance.

Main user of monitoring information:
Land Managers and conservation organizations

People involved in monitoring:

Has any of the resulting monitoring information been used for a state of the environment assessment?
no

Main problems, limitations, challenges and other comments:

Primary contact: Susan Wethington Hummingbird Monitoring Network sponsored by Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Patagonia, AZ

Secondary contact: No secondary contact has been identified

Web site: http://www.HumMonNet.org

Summary created: 3/04/2004 by Susan Wethington
Summary last modified: 3/04/2004 by Susan Wethington