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Species-Specific Management, SSM, is a system for providing information and advice for managing wild animals and plants. Rather than describing community or system level work with wild creatures, it presumes that the landowner or some person has a species of great interest and wants to keep it at present levels of abundance or to change that abundance. Often wildlife management or faunal system management is seen as a way to get more animals (as in game management) but it also includes stabilizing populations as well as decreasing them (such as when they become pests).
See Birds of North America for information about each of the 716 species nesting in North America.
Herein, each species is treated as a system. There have to be objectives, the more precise the better. Information is needed. We have attempted to reduce these to the bare minimum, the need-to-know versus the nice-to-know facts and figures. Processes are fairly straight-forward but explained in some cases. Feedback is simplified here and usually means watching the population or its effects to see if the actions taken do what you want them to do. If they do not, then change the tactics, the objectives, seek more information, or evaluate the monitoring procedure itself. Feedforward means to keep an eye on the future and take actions now (or not) to respond to the likely change. For example, don't build a pond for animals if a nearby golf course will build one within a year.
The USFWS Bird Banding lab maintains the alpha codes for North American birds. Complete list is available at: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/manual/sname.htm
Click on a title to see information equivalent to several pages of information about a species (or in some cases a group such as "furbearers" for people who may not desire to select a species).
Check out the internet Indian Journal of Birds and Conservation.
Check out a web site for owls started in May, 2000.
The Bird Conservation Alliance is a network of organizations whose focus is the conservation, study, and observation of birds. Through the Alliance, millions of birdwatchers and concerned citizens are united with conservation professionals, scientists, and educators for the conservation of wild birds.
Alicia Frances Craig
Director, Bird Conservation Alliance
American Bird Conservancy
PO Box 90290
Indianapolis, IN 46240
317-251-2473
Washington DC ABC Office
1731 Connecticut Avenue NW 3rd Floor
Washington DC 20009
202-234-7181
The All-Bird Bulletin, the newsletter of the U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) Committee.
Contact:Roxanne Bogart
Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Division of Bird Habitat Conservation
Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Resources Office
11 Lincoln Street
Essex Junction, VT 05452
ph: 802-872-0629 ext. 25
fax: 802-872-9704
Roxanne_Bogart@fws.gov
http://birdhabitat.fws.gov
http://www.nabci-us.org
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