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Conservation of Migratory Birds in western Arctic Alaska

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Project Description

Project Map

Publicly Accessible: Yes
County: North Slope Borough, AK

Project Sites

• Prudhoe Bay (Not publicly accessible)
• Teshekpuk Lake

Goals and Targets

Primary Motivations:

• Conservation Mission
  

Primary Goals:

• Protect wildlife in key regions of Alaska's western Arctic by: 1. protecting key geographies from development 2. minimize wildlife impacts in human-disturbed regions
  Progress: research monitoring working with stakeholders

Consistent With Plans:

• Nature Conservancy Ecoregional Plan
  
• Conservation Plan
  
• State Wildlife Action Plan
  

Targeted Habitats:

• Wetlands and Riparian Habitats
• Marshes, Bogs and Emergent Wetlands

Targeted Species:

• American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
• Arctic Fox Vulpes lagopus
• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
• Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
• King Eider Somateria spectabilis
• Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
• Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
• Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
• Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
• Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
• Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
• Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
• Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
• Spectacled Eider Somateria fischeri
• Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
• Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii

Conservation Actions

Action	Status	Start Year	End Year
Research	In Progress	2002	2009
Vertebrate monitoring	In Progress	2002	2009

Outcomes

Is the success of this project's actions being monitored? Yes

Monitoring Activities
We follow up our research activities and publications by working with key stakeholders to implement sound conservation/mgt. practices.