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Marsh Monitoring Program – Bird Survey Reference Card
Marsh Monitoring Program – Bird Survey Reference Card Primary Species (required) American Bittern Eared Grebe Horned Grebe Least Bittern Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Sora AMBI EAGR HOGR LEBI NSTS PBGR RNGR SORA Virginia Rail Yellow Rail VIRA YERA Additional Species (required) American Coot American Widgeon American White Pelican Baird’s Sparrow Black-crowned Night Heron Black Tern Bonaparte's Gull Brewer’s Sparrow Bufflehead Blue-winged Teal Canada Goose California Gull Canvasback Caspian Tern Clay-colored Sparrow Cinnamon Teal Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye AMCO AMWI AWPE BAIS BCNH BLTE BOGU BRSP BUFF BWTE CAGO CAGU CANV CATE CCSP CITE CLGR COGO Common Loon Common Tern Common Yellowthroat Double-crested Cormorant Forster's Tern Franklin's Gull Gadwall Great Blue Heron Green Heron Green-winged Teal LeConte's Sparrow Lesser Scaup Lincoln's Sparrow Mallard Marsh Wren Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Redhead COLO COTE COYE DCCO FOTE FRGU GADW GBHE GRHE GWTE LCSP LESC LISP MALL MAWR NOPI NSHO REDH Ring-billed Gull Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck Red-winged Blackbird Sandhill Crane Savannah Sparrow Sedge Wren Song Sparrow Sprague’s Pipit Swamp Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Western Grebe White-faced Ibis Whooping Crane Wilson's Phalarope Wilson's Snipe Wood Duck Yellow-headed Blackbird RBGU RNDU RUDU RWBL SACR SAVS SEWR SOSP SPPI SWSP VESP WEGR WFIB WHCR WIPH WISN WODU YHBL CEDW COGR CORA EAKI GRCA KILL NOFL NOHA OSPR PUMA Red-eyed Vireo REVI Red-tailed Hawk RTHA Rock Pigeon (Dove) ROPI Ruby-throated Hummingbird RTHU Tree Swallow TRES Veery VEER Warbling Vireo WAVI White-throated Sparrow WTSP Yellow Warbler YWAR Extra Species Codes for Reference American Crow American Goldfinch American Redstart Bald Eagle Baltimore Oriole Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Bobolink Brown-headed Cowbird AMCR AMGO AMRE BAEA BAOR BANS BARS BCCH BOBO BHCO Cedar Waxwing Common Grackle Common Raven Eastern Kingbird Gray Catbird Killdeer Northern Flicker Northern Harrier Osprey Purple Martin * Species codes that do not follow the general guidelines are highlighted. General Guidelines of Species Codes: Species codes are a four-letter abbreviation of the common name of a species. Typically a code is generated using the first two letters of each word in the name (e.g. Warbling Vireo – WAVI). For one-word names, the first four letters are used (e.g. Killdeer – KILL). Hyphenated names use the first letter of the first two words (separated by a hyphen) and the first two letters of the third word (e.g. White-throated Sparrow – WTSP). Although this is the general format, exceptions exist so one should familiarize themselves with the species codes of common birds in their area. Marsh Monitoring Program – Bird Survey Reference Card Beaufort Wind Scale Beaufort Index 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Wind Speed (km/hr) <1 1-5 6-11 12-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 Indicators at Survey Station Air calm, smoke rises vertically Light air movement, smoke drifts Wind felt on face, leaves rustle Leaves and small twigs in continual motion, wind extends light flags Wind raises dust, loose paper, moves small branches Small trees begin to sway, white crested wavelets form on inland waters Large branches in motion, telephone wires ‘whistle’ * Shading indicates unacceptable wind strengths for bird surveys. Cloud Cover Cloud Cover Index 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Description No clouds. 10% cloud cover. 20% cloud cover. 30% cloud cover. 40% cloud cover. 50% cloud cover. 60% cloud cover. 70% cloud cover. 80% cloud cover. 90% cloud cover. 100% cloud cover. Precipitation Codes Index 0 1 2 3 Description None Damp/Moist/Fog Drizzle Rain * Shading indicates unacceptable conditions to begin bird surveys. Background Noise Codes Index 0 1 2 3 4 24 Hour Time 12 Hour 24 Hour 5:00 AM 5:00 6:00 AM 6:00 7:00 AM 7:00 8:00 AM 8:00 9:00 AM 9:00 10:00 AM 10:00 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM 10:00 PM 11:00 PM Description No appreciable effect (e.g. owl calling) Slightly affecting sampling (e.g. distant traffic, dog barking, car passing) Moderately affecting sampling (e.g. distant traffic, 2-5 cars passing) Seriously affecting sampling (e.g. continuous traffic nearby, 6-10 cars passing) Profoundly affecting sampling (e.g. continuous traffic passing, construction noise) 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00
