Kiel L. Drake

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the effectiveness of an extensive and unprecedented wildlife reduction effort directed at a wide-ranging migratory population of geese, and concluded that the midcontinent population has continued to grow during the conservation order, although perhaps at a reduced rate.

TL;DR: This work assessed whether microphone sensitivity impacted the probability of detecting bird vocalizations by broadcasting a sequence of 12 calls toward an array of commercially available ARUs equipped with microphones of varying sensitivities under three levels of experimentally induced noise conditions selected to reflect the range of noise levels commonly encountered during avian surveys.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a sonogram-based method for counting individual birds on recordings, using field recordings of individual yellow rails (Coturnicops noveboracensis) and tested the accuracy of the sonogrambased counts.

TL;DR: The results lend support to the notion that both broad‐scale changes in seasonality from observed and predicted warming in the arctic and, to a lesser extent, density‐dependence on brood‐rearing areas may result in changes to offspring quality or survival, with implications for population recruitment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have been studying population biology of Ross's geese south of Queen Maud Gulf (QMG) in Canada's central arctic from 1989 to 2008, using ground-based sampling of nests to estimate the annual rate of population growth at Karrak Lake, one of the largest colonies within the QMG metapopulation.