State Co-chairs
Beau Hardegree, Texas
US Fish and Wildlife Service
beau_hardegree@fws.gov
Robert Dobbs, Louisiana
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
rdobbs@wlf.la.gov
Mark Woodrey, Mississippi
Mississippi State University
msw103@msstate.edu
Abby Darrah, Mississippi
Audubon Delta
Abby.Darrah@audubon.org
Lianne Koczur, Alabama
Alabama Audubon
lianne@alaudubon.org
The purpose of the GCJV Bird Nesting Island Cooperative (the Cooperative) is to facilitate communication, cooperation, and collaboration among stakeholders involved in creation, restoration, and management of bird nesting island habitat in the four states. The desired result of the Cooperative is to maintain, or increase, as necessary, the quality and quantity of habitat for priority island-nesting bird species. The Cooperative may identify and, through its members, plan and execute projects or develop products aimed at advancing bird nesting island habitat conservation.
Beach-nesting Bird Colony Atlas for Northern Gulf of America
The purpose of the Atlas is to provide a repository for breeding data for waterbirds in the region, including a spatial inventory and an associated registry, or database. The Atlas is primarily intended for use by local, state, federal, and NGO resource managers.
You can preview the Atlas below or access it through this link: Atlas of Breeding Sites for Waterbirds in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
- The Dashboard provides spatial information on the location of waterbird breeding sites (not nest locations per se; n = 1740); population counts as numbers of nests, pairs, or adults, and numbers of individual sites and individual species (n = 42) at the scale of the study area, a user-selected area, or individual sites; and information on survey methodology, data providers and points of contact. In addition to the map of the study area (the Atlas), users can access a table of survey data (the Registry). Both the Atlas and the Registry can be filtered using the following categories: species, survey year, State, data provider, and presence/absence
- Data Providers- Alabama Audubon, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Audubon Delta, the Deepwater Horizon Regionwide Trustee Implementation Group, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and the Texas Colonial Waterbird Society.
- Geographical Extent- The Atlas includes and displays data for sites used by breeding waterbirds in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, the Gulf of Mexico coast of Florida, and southern Florida including the Florida Keys, located within the following habitat classifications of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP): estuarine forested wetland, estuarine scrub shrub wetland, estuarine emergent wetland, and estuarine aquatic bed.
- Timeframe- The colony registry and Atlas includes data available from 2010-2022.
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