Dear MD Birders:



The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) program is soliciting one

participant to sample the Pomonkey BBS route (46030) in Charles County.



If you are not familiar with the BBS, it is an international monitoring

program that was initiated by Chan Robbins, and USFWS colleagues, in 1966

to track the status and trends of North American birds.  These data now

form the foundation of modern North American landbird conservation, and are

used by numerous state and federal agencies, and conservation

organizations, like Partners in Flight, to determine species of

conservation concern at regional and national scales.  Each BBS route is

24.5 miles long and located along local roads.  There are stops located at

0.5-mile intervals for a total of 50 stops.  At each stop the participant

conducts a 3-minute point count recording every bird seen within a

0.25-mile radius and every bird heard.  Sampling starts 0.5 hour before

local sunrise and takes approximately 4-5 hours to complete a route.  Each

route is sampled once per year during the height of the breeding season,

early June for Maryland.



Qualified applicants must be able to identify all birds in the area by

sight and vocalizations, have good hearing and eyesight, and have access to

suitable transportation to sample the route.  If interested in contributing

to this valuable avian conservation program by sampling the Pomonkey BBS

route (46030), please contact:



      Keith Pardieck

      USGS Patuxent Wildlife research Center

      12100 Beech Forest Road

      Laurel, MD 20708-4038

      

      301-497-5843







Fran Saunders

MOS Web Site Director

http://www.mdbirds.org/

Silver Spring, Maryland




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