Published
1:23 pm, Friday, December 11, 2015
PROVIDENCE,
R.I. (AP) — State and federal officials have partnered with the University of Rhode Island over five years to map how
birds are distributed in the state.
Rhode
Island Public Radio reports (http://bit.ly/1Y83RX3 ) the data will be part of
the state's second bird breeding atlas. The first was produced in the late
1980s.
Project
manager Charles Clarkson says the project, spanning
from 2016 to 2020, will show how bird populations have since changed. Data will
indicate how the climate has either helped or hindered breeding.
Clarkson
says the bird atlas will build on the first one by tracking migrating winter
birds. He hopes to recruit more than 100 volunteers who will record their
observations of breeding in numerous habitats.
A
kickoff meeting to introduce the project is scheduled for Saturday.
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