[mou-net] Osprey Watch
The Ospreys will be returning to their nests in the twin cities area within the next few days or weeks and Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch needs your help. This is our annual plea to please report new nests or osprey activity in the eight county metro area to us. We are trying to monitor all know nests in Hennepin, Ramsey, Carver, Washington, Anoka, Wright, Dakota and Scott counties as part of a long term study on these raptors. We are also seeking volunteers to help monitor these nests. (122 known occupied nests last year, which included 13 new nests.) We are assembling our field teams now so If you are interested in helping us by checking a nest once a week through the breeding season, please contact Vanessa Greene at osprey...@gmail.com. You can find more info, including last years productivity and behavioral results, on our facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/Twin-Cities-Metro-Osprey-Watch-218968924786696/?ref=hl) or our blog... www.ospreywatch.blogspot.com Please feel free to share this post with anyone who might be interested in joining this research effort. Thanks! Vanessa Greene Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch osprey...@gmail.com Osprey watch.blogspot.com On Facebook too! Sent from my iPad Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Osprey Watch
I read with interest the posting about the Osprey Watch program at Wm and Mary College in Virginia. We have a local organization with a similar name “Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch” which is dedicated to monitoring all nests in the 8 county metro area surrounding Minneapolis and St Paul. We are a growing group of passionate people who are interested in learning more about this magnificent raptor, monitoring the population expansion, and studying their productivity and behaviors! We share the concerns of the worldwide project regarding contaminants, climate change and fish depletion and therefore we are monitoring ALL known nests for an accurate productivity study as well as behavioral studies. Ospreys are an indicator species that indicate much about the environmental health of our community and therefore we believe it is important to continue this local study which began in 1984. (Three Rivers Park District announced in January that they were reducing their research and banding to just 1/3 of the nests in the metro). We always need help monitoring all the nests and if you are interested please contact us. We also need the public’s help in reporting new nests to us. Contact us at osprey...@att.net. You can find us on Facebook now too! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Twin-Cities-Metro-Osprey-Watch/218968924786696?ref=ts Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Osprey Watch: join a global community of observers
Become an Osprey Watcher: Connect with a global community of observers The Center for Conservation Biology has launched Osprey-Watch, a project created to engage a global community to collect data on breeding osprey. Linked by an interest in osprey and a concern for the health of the aquatic environments on which they rely, this community will for the first time provide a global perspective on this charismatic species. The mission of Osprey-Watch is to bring citizen scientists together in order to collect information on a large enough spatial scale to be useful in addressing three of the most pressing issues facing aquatic ecosystems including global climate change, depletion of fish stocks, and environmental contaminants. Osprey are one of very few truly global sentinels for aquatic health. They feed almost exclusively on live fish throughout their entire life cycle. They are a top consumer within aquatic ecosystems and are very sensitive to both overfishing and environmental contaminants. Nearly all populations breed in the northern latitudes and winter in the southern latitudes, effectively linking the aquatic health of the hemispheres. Their breeding season in the north is highly seasonal making them an effective barometer of climate change. Osprey-Watch is a user-friendly, internet platform that allows observers across the globe to map their nests, log observations, upload photos, and interact within an observer forum. Information entered into the platform will be immediately accessible to users and will be summarized following the breeding season. To join a growing community of global citizens, please visit http://www.osprey-watch.org and become an Osprey-Watcher. Michael Wilson Center for Conservation Biology College of William and Mary Virginia Commonwealth University P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 phone: 757-221-1649 fax: 757-221-1650 email: mdw...@wm.edu http://www.osprey-watch.org Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
