Will DeMott

From spending many years in the field as a technician, I always wondered if climate change was not only impacting the survival of wildlife, but also our ability to study wildlife. With that in mind, I began a project that is evaluating the impact of adverse weather events on banding productivity, using a 30-year dataset provided by the Mapping Avian Productivity and Survivorship program. The project aims to assess the impact of weather on overall banding efficiency, determine which bird conservation regions are more vulnerable to adverse weather conditions (rain, high winds, and high temperatures), and determine if adverse weather conditions have increasingly affected banding efforts over the history of the MAPS program.

Effects of Precipitation on Banding Efforts

Effects of Wind on Banding Efforts