This winter provided an opportunity to make some long-awaited updates to the IWMM website. New content was added, links were updated, and the entire site reorganized to make information easier to find. A few pages were broken up to make [...]
Heavy equipment prepares a site for moist-soil vegetation. USFWS Annual reports can be a great way to “take stock” of refuge resources on a consistent basis. By tracking the same parameters over time, such as vegetation coverage, water [...]
Biologist performing a wetland delineation. Wildnotes Connection Blog In the first year of use (2018-19), nearly one-quarter (23%) of the total participants used the app for at least some of their data collection. Several new features and user [...]
IWMM provides tools to deliver effective management of migrating waterbirds - including waterfowl, waders, and shorebirds - during the non-breeding season. In response to recent interest from field stations, the IWMM team spent several months developing a mobile software application [...]
The Integrated Waterbird Management and Monitoring (IWMM) program is excited to announce an update to the IWMM mobile app - just in time for the 2019/2020 non-breeding season! New features include improved organization and user flow, in-form instructions to assist [...]
Wendy Stanton, Refuge Biologist Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR), located in northeastern North Carolina, was established by Executive Order 6924, dated Dec. 18, 1934 as a refuge and breeding ground for birds and wild animals and for use as an [...]
In May 2019, Alex Kumar joined the USFWS Natural Resource Program Center (NRPC) in Fort Collins to complete a short-term project as part of the Directorate Resource Assistants Fellows Program (DFP). Alex came to NRPC from the University of Montana [...]
Accurate waterbird counts help inform science and management for many stations in the NWRS but can be time- and resource-intensive to collect. This summer, IWMM initiated a special project with help from Alex Kumar, a Directorate Resource Assistants Fellows Program [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]