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Nestbox Monitoring FormsDate: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:16:01 -0400 Does anyone have a good form that they like for keeping records on their nest boxes? If so, would you be willing to share it? Cheryll Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:35:48 -0400 Cheryl, I have made a form for my monitoring that is based on the Bluebird Recovery Program of Wisconsin form, with a few changes. It includes date of visit, nest present?, number of eggs, estimated date of hatch, number of young, number fledged, species, with room for comments at each monitoring. I'd be glad to send you a copy if you like. Let me know. Mary Roen, River Falls, WI ...
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:11:34 -0500 I guess it depends on how involved you want to get. Each year I set up a loose leaf notebook using 8 1/2" by 11" lined paper with one page for each nestbox. (80 this year). I carry a small pocket notebook when monitoring and transfer this info to the loose leaf notebook later. This makes for quick recording in the field and also leaves me with a separate record for each year. Having a full page for each box also leaves plenty of room for special notes. Not a fancy system but it works. Bluebird Bob, NE OK.
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:04:38 -0700 The good folks with the CBRP (California Bluebird Recovery Program) sent me forms for individual nest box records, and a season end summary form. I got them by fax, but found the print/format quality too poor for replication and use. Due to that, I recreated them as a Word for Windows .DOC file. Now I can print them up fresh and clean. In addition, I can add all of my common data, and don't have to enter it by hand. I'd be happy to send an electronic copy to anyone who might get benefit from it. While I hadn't asked, I don't think that CBRP would object. As a side note, it would seem to me that a single consistent form would be more useful rather than an eclectic ad hoc collection of various and diverse bits of paper. Does (or would) NABS be willing to undertake a standard national set of forms? I'd be willing to generate them for electronic release. But I think the distribution and management of the docs should be done by a respected national entity... To take things one step further, besides being able to be printed up nice and fresh, I'd intended the forms I created to become the model for an input form, accessible via the web (I'm still working on that step...about 2/3's done). That way data could be captured and easily acquired in real time. Since I'm my own ISP and have my own servers, I wouldn't mind hosting such a site. It is my long term goal to use my HPC to gather the field notes, and have that download to my birding site via the web. I've got the pieces, I've just not yet worked out all the details nor written the necessary "glue" programs to make it a smooth and seamless operation... A little further along that line; in order for me to differentiate between my various boxes (and future boxes, I'd come up with a numbering scheme that could be used to individually number each box. By adding two more letters, it could serve as a national model. That way each nest box, on each trail, by each member, in each state would be instantly reviewable by all. Data could be gathered in a heartbeat. Trends would become instantly visible. Just some thoughts...
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:12:18 -0500 The Birdhouse Network has monitoring forms posted on its website. One is for
field notes, the other a data summary sheet. Anyone can go to their site and
click on "Field Worksheet" to print them off. Claire
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:30:20 -0600 I'm creating a form for field notes and a form for a summary for each nest box on the Mountain City Bluebird Trail. (There are no mountains near Mountain City!) 'Would appreciate a copy of forms that have worked well on trails and suggestions for formatting and line items to include. The forms I already have are: Cornell's, Stoke's and Illinois Bluebird Project's. Thanks! Pauline Tom From: "Stan Blaylock" stanb103"at"bellsouth.net Anyone have available a form designed to record the development of a BB family from nest building to fledging? I would like to note the daily activities and progress of the family in an organized manner rather than notes on my calendar. Stan Blaylock From: "Mary Beth Roen" mbroen"at"hotmail.com Stan, I would be happy to send you a copy of the monitoring form I use, if you aren't afraid of opening an attachment. I do have Norton anti-virus. If you would like me to send it, let me know. Mary Roen, River Falls, WI (mbroen"at"hotmail.com) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:37:42 -0400 Go to the MASS Bluebird Association below - we have a great monitor form
available you can print. :-) H From: Cher [mailto:BluebirdNut"at"a-znet.com] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:30 PM Subject: Question for trail managers If you could design the perfect Bluebird trail journal, what would it be like?
What would each page include? Input, I need input! From: Haleya Priest [mailto:mablue"at"gis.net] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: Re: Question for trail managers Haleya Priest Amherst MA From: Haleya Priest [mailto:mablue"at"gis.net] |
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