Monitoring Bird Populations in New Zealand: A Workshop to Assess the Feasibility of a National Bird Population Monitoring Scheme

摘要

A workshop on monitoring bird populations in New Zealand was held at Landcare Research, Lincoln, on 28 June 2004. The objective was to assess the feasibility of establishing a national bird-population monitoring scheme in New Zealand. Organisations invited to the workshop were the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), Department of Conservation (DOC), Canterbury Regional Council (Environment Canterbury), Christchurch City Council (CCC), Ornithological Society (OSNZ), Forest & Bird, Fish & Game, and Landcare Research. Unfortunately, MfE, Environment Canterbury, and Fish & Game were unable to attend. Each organisation was asked what bird population monitoring it currently undertook, what data requirements it had, and whether it would support a nationally coordinated scheme for monitoring bird populations. All organisations (except MfE) currently undertake some form of bird-population monitoring, and several were planning to set up new schemes. There was little or no coordinated planning between organisations, each 'doing its own thing'.