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Raptor Research Center staff members have a variety of experience with survey and monitoring projects and they have utilized radio telemetry extensively to address objectives associated with animal movements.
Mike Yates has conducted extensive nesting, food habits, adult mortality, and site fidelity studies involving peregrines and gyrfalcons in Greenland and Russia. His survey experience includes fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter, and ground visits. In Nevada , Mike has conducted ferruginous hawk nesting surveys and sage grouse lek counts in cooperation with the Nevada Department of Wildlife and telemetry with sage grouse for Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management. Currently, Mike is working with the Great Basin Bird Observatory, Nevada Department of Wildlife, and US Forest Service to assemble historical raptor survey data and test a new U.S. Geological Survey data management system. For nearly 30 years, Mike has been co-investigator on surveys of peregrines and other migrant raptors at Assateague Island (MD/VA) and Padre Island (TX). He also conducted raptor migration surveys at Cape Charles, VA and Sterrett’s Gap, PA. Mike has conducted studies of contaminants in common loons and white-faced ibis and, with Kirk Bates and others, research of flight behavior and movements of American white pelicans.
Kirk Bates' recent avian species monitoring has focused on avian passage rates during migration, winter bald eagle counts, surveys for northern spotted owls, and surveys of nesting raptors in a variety of habitat types. Past work includes aerial surveys of mammals and avian species on public lands. Currently, he is working with Bruce Haak, Idaho Fish and Game, to study raptor migration in Idaho. Kirk is involved in development of radio telemetry techniques, especially satellite telemetry, for wildlife studies. For example, he created methods for early detection of mortality of bighorn sheep in collaboration with Mike Cox, Nevada Dept. of Wildlife, and he developed methods for finding transmitters under difficult field conditions. Also, Kirk recently completed research of prairie falcon movements and survival with colleagues in the US Geological Survey. He helped use a GPS / Argos system to track cinereous vultures in Mongolia with colleague Nyamba Batbayar and has begun a project with Dan Clark of the Massachusetts DCR-Division of Water Supply Protection to study gull movements. Kirk and Mark Fuller and Linda Schueck (US Geological Survey) are studying snowy owl movements with Norm Smith, Massachusetts Audubon, and Denver Holt, Owl Institute. Kirk works with Mark Fuller (US Geological Survey) toward developing the North American Raptor Monitoring Strategy. Mark Fuller has worked on survey and monitoring methods, summaries of raptor population status, raptor food habits, avian habitat use, and the annual movements of birds.
We partner with federal, state and
private individuals and organizations to design and conduct innovative studies
using conventional telemetry (very high frequency) and satellite telemetry. Our
involvement can include all phases of a given study or the acquisition,
management, mapping, and interpretation of data. Several projects
and references are described at this web site. For
additional references, click
here .
If you would like to
discuss potential collaboration, please contact:
Kirk Bates
Mike Yates
(208) 426-5215
(775) 267-2257
kbates@boisestate.edu
MYfalcon@charter.net
Questions and comments regarding the Raptor Research Center: mark_fuller@usgs.gov
Questions and comments regarding this website:
kbledsoe@boisestate.edu
This page was last reviewed on 14 November 2007.