Who was involved with the Migrant Bird Stopover Habitat Survey?
The SOCNFWR and the USFWS’s Region 5 Migratory Bird Management Program are provided funding to Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, to conduct the survey. Smith College is working in close collaboration with the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Manomet, MA. State-level coordination and data collection was conducted by the Audubon Society of New Hampshire, Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts Audubon Society, and Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Each state organization, with the help of volunteers, conducted a series of migrant surveys during spring migration of 1996, 1997, and 1998. The Migrant Bird Stopover Survey was assisted by an advisory board with representatives from Connecticut College, U.S. Forest Service, Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Cornell University, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. What did a survey volunteer do? Volunteers played a critical role in the Stopover Habitat Survey. Each s
