Project Goals and Objectives:

• Develop statistical techniques for combining Call Count Survey (CCS) and population growth rate estimates derived from banding and harvest data to produce reliable predictions of population status and trend.
• Develop a detailed harvest management framework that continuously integrates monitoring data, population models, and harvest and population objectives into a harvest management system.
• Develop a Banding Needs Document driven by information required for accomplishment of objectives above

This project was completed by David Otis, Philip M. Dixon, and John Sauer. Click here to read more about the research (PDF).

Funding Organization: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Duration: 07/01/2006 to 06/30/2011