Project Information

Title: Surveys to Monitor Marine Bird Abundance in PWS During Winter and Summer 2000 00159

Project Year and Number: 2000: 00159

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2010: 10100751, 2008: 080751, 2007: 070751, 2005: 050751, 2004: 040159, 2002: 02159, 2001: 01159, 1999: 99159, 1998: 98159, 1997: 97159-CLO, 1996: 96159, 1994: 94159, 1993: 93045

Principal Investigator (PI): Brian Lance (US Fish & Wildlife Service)

Managing Agency: USFWS

Assisting Personnel: David Irons

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Bald Eagles, Black Oystercatchers, Common Loons, Common Murres, Cormorants, Harlequin Ducks, Kittlitz's Murrelets, Marbled Murrelets, Pigeon Guillemot, Sea Otters

Abstract: This project will conduct small boat surveys to monitor abundance of marine birds and sea otters in Prince William Sound during March and July 2000. Six previous surveys have monitored population trends for more than 65 bird and eight marine mammal species in Prince William Sound. Data collected in 2000 will be used to continue to examine trends from summer 1989-00 and from winter 1990-00 by determining whether populations in the oiled zone changed at the same rate as those in the unoiled zone. Overall population trends for Prince William Sound from 1989-00 will be examined. Data collected in 1998 indicate that none of the designated injured species showed evidence of recovery in either winter or summer populations from 1989-1998.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Annual Report FY00: View (3,989 KB)
Final Report: See Project 050751

Publications from this Project: None Available