Hi Natalie, The Canadian Wildlife Service used our data for the study/tracking of Canadian Wildlife and Birds. I am attaching their story that we use our web site. They can be reached at 819-997-6120. Hope this helps! Lyn Du Chateau ADC WorldMap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if anyone would happen to have or know where I could access > coverage of migratory bird sites/routes for Canada. If you can help at > all-much appreciated. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2 Type: application/ms-tnef > Encoding: base64Title: ADC WorldMap-Canadian Wildlife Service
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“The mapping is already laid out...that’s one of the attractions of ADC WorldMap,” says Dr. Guy Morrison, research scientist studying shorebirds with the Canadian Wildlife Service. “It eliminates the very long and tedious business of drawing the base maps, so we can concentrate on managing the bird data.” Dr. Morrison and his associates study bird distribution in North and South America and in the Arctic. They count shorebirds from airplanes. By conducting aerial surveys along coastlines from the Arctic to South America, he can identify the most important habitats used by the birds during their migration. His principal focus is on shorebirds (sandpipers, plovers, etc.), though other groups such as wading birds (egrets, bitterns, etc.) and waterfowl (ducks, geese, etc.) are also counted. “We plot the data (from the bird census) right on the base maps,” says Dr. Morrison. By studying plot patterns on the maps, his agency provides information for conservation planning. This work, in fact, led to a major conservation initiative known as the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. Dr. Morrison appreciates MapInfo’s plotting capabilities, which make his job easier. He also values the layering functions of MapInfo. “There’s an awful lot of detail in ADC WorldMap, so the ability to turn information on or off is quite handy,” asserts Dr. Morrison. “It’s nice to have maps with detailed coastlines because it improves the accuracy of our studies.” Christine Eberl, migratory birds technician, works with Dr. Morrison at the National Wildlife Research Center. Her responsibilities include plotting the bird data onto ADC WorldMap. She likes MapInfo’s ease of use. “Now that I’m on MapInfo, things are progressing a lot better,” she declares. She would like to see a greater level of topographical detail in the Arctic region, but is impressed with the general level of detail she finds in ADC WorldMap. In addition to the major “atlas” projects mapping bird distribution, Dr. Morrison routinely uses ADC WorldMap and MapInfo to produce maps and figures for a variety of publications. Other divisions of the Canadian Wildlife Service are using the system to plot Breeding Bird Survey routes. It was also recently used to produce a major Gazetteer summarizing environmental information on Canada’s east coast.
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