Monitoring of Owls and Nightjars, MOON, in Illinois - 2008 Report
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Abstract
Because anecdotally we know that some species of owls, and possibly all three species of nightjars in Illinois, are declining Monitoring of Owls and Nightjars, MOON, was initiated in 2008.Owls to be monitored during this study were restricted to nocturnal species, because of the time of the study.Therefore, Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, Eastern Screech-Owl, and Barn Owl were the primary owl species we are monitoring, while Common Nighthawk, Whip-poor-will, and Chuck-will's-widow were the nightjars we are monitoring.Fortunately for us, monitoring programs targeting owls and/or nightjars had already begun in the Northeast (Northeast Coordinated Bird Monitoring Partnership), Wisconsin (Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative), Canada (Bird Studies Canada), and the Southeast (U.S. Nightjar Survey Network).This helped us to lay a groundwork protocol so that we would be able to collaborate in the future with these other organizations to try and denote population trends, habitat requirements, and food requirements, and later make sound management decisions to conserve individual species.Being a first year study we knew our volunteer base would not be too robust to begin with, but we hoped it would pique interests as word got out about MOON.We were able to recruit 27 volunteers to run 23 routes.Volunteers created their own 9 mile long routes with 10 stops along suitable owl and nightjar habitat.Because Illinois is so agriculturally dominated using BBS routes was out of the question, as many of them did not fall within habitat that would be used by owls or nightjars.We have historical evidence, because of programs such as Spring Bird Count, Christmas Bird Count, and Breeding Bird Survey, that indicates where owls or nightjars have been detected in the past.There were three monitoring time frames in 2008, one in May, one in June, and one in July.Results indicated that of the owl species monitored there were 145 Barred Owls (15 routes), 11 Eastern Screech-Owls (7 routes), and 35 Great Horned Owls (12 routes) detected along routes.Along those same routes nightjars detected were 84 Whip-poor-wills (7 routes), 18 Common Nighthawks (7 routes), and 0 Chuck-will'swidows.Additionally, 3 American Woodcocks (3 routes) were detected.Given this was MOON's pilot year we decided, based on results, to modify the protocol for the second year of the study.Modifications will include incorporating an Eastern Screech-Owl playback at the end of the initial 6 minute listening period at each stop, as well as shifting sampling period times around to try and detect more owls.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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