Documenting Management Actions: The “KEY” to Evaluating Habitat Management for Non-breeding Waterbirds Wetland managers need to monitor waterbirds and their habitats during the nonbreeding period to improve the efficacy of management decision making (Lyons et al. 2008), but are often [...]
Recording Management Actions is a key element of the IWMM Protocol. Your best source of information on recording Management Actions can be found in the IWMM Monitoring Manual under SOP 6: Recording Management Actions. To begin recording management actions, print [...]
Data collection under the Integrated Waterbird Management and Monitoring Program got underway in fall 2010 when the pilot phase was initiated. During the initial survey seasons, IWMM staff used monitoring data and feedback from participants to target critical information needs, [...]
IWMM was recently featured in the Division of Natural Resources and Conservation Planning Science Support Digest. If you are trying to understand how your Refuge can contribute to Waterbird Conservation, read the article "HOW CAN I ENHANCE MY REFUGES ROLE [...]
Lesser Yellowlegs. USFWS Waterfowl, shorebirds and wading birds frequently overlap in habitat use, with each guild having specific habitat requirements during the breeding, migration and winter seasons. This makes habit management for waterbirds a challenging, year-round job. [...]
IWMM Announces New Science Coordinator IWMM is pleased to have Dr. Mindy Rice on board as a spacial ecologist IWMM is pleased to announce that Dr. Mindy Rice was hired as a spatial ecologist with the Natural Resource [...]
Integrated Waterbird Management and Monitoring (IWMM) provides managers a transparent and defensible conservation decision-making framework linked across multiple scales. This conservation approach integrates monitoring, modeling and decision support to optimize local wetland management while supporting continental waterbird populations. Local decision [...]
Database Developments: Reporting Tools and Download Functionality Have Arrived! On October 12, IWMM presented the third in a series of training webinars to get IWMM users oriented to our online database. This training focused specifically on the reporting tools and [...]
Vegetation Survey Waterbird surveys over the migration and wintering periods have coincided with wetland management efforts for decades. However, bird counts alone cannot be linked to habitat conditions and management actions. Recording habitat conditions and management actions concurrent [...]
Establishing Survey Units and Observation Points The first step in getting started with IWMM is to define your survey unit where waterbird counts, unit conditions, annual vegetation assessments and the recording of management actions will be conducted. In the simplest [...]