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| Truckee River |
It’s February, and thoughts across the birding nation are focused on prepping for the coming field season. I’m no exception! During all this prep, though, I’ve been reflecting on last year’s incarnation of the Nevada Bird Count, and thought I’d pull together a map showing where we had surveyed point count transects last year. We surveyed around 120 transects last year, some of them surveyed 2 or 3 times, along with fourteen area searches along the Truckee River, in the Pine Nuts, at Desert and Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuges, at Warm Springs Natural Area, and several locations within blackbrush and sagebrush habitats. It definitely kept us hopping!
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| Pine Nut Range |
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| Central Nevada Sagebrush |
This year the focus areas will be quite similar, with only a couple of changes: the Pine Nut and Shoshone ranges, Walker and Truckee rivers, Warm Springs Natural Area, and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge are among the highlights. There won’t be as many far-flung transects to explore, but we’ll get to dig our fingers in to several locations, and really get to know them well. We’re still in the midst of the hiring process, so I’ve been talking with lots of great applicants - and getting even more psyched to get started!
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| Southern Nevada Blackbrush/Joshua Tree |
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| Warm Springs Natural Area |
In the meantime, though – it’s back to data processing and report-writing! I’ll leave you with some pretty pictures from 2014, and a wish that you all have very
Happy birding,
Jen
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