. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 3: Working with Birds 49 more than 30 years, however, has depended on the readiness of volunteers (now numbering in the hun- dreds) to rise before dawn and travel their preset courses. In 1995, the 30th annual survey included a record 432 routes, with significant coverage in every province and territory except Newfoundland (two routes) and the Northwest Territories (one route). With public interest in bird observation at an all- time high, organizers project that the number could surpass 600 by the year 2000.^^ The Breeding Bird Survey its
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 3: Working with Birds 49 more than 30 years, however, has depended on the readiness of volunteers (now numbering in the hun- dreds) to rise before dawn and travel their preset courses. In 1995, the 30th annual survey included a record 432 routes, with significant coverage in every province and territory except Newfoundland (two routes) and the Northwest Territories (one route). With public interest in bird observation at an all- time high, organizers project that the number could surpass 600 by the year 2000.^^ The Breeding Bird Survey itself has been instru- mental in raising general public awareness of the importance of bird studies to such a level. Embraced by CWS and by Canadian naturalists, it helped lay the foundations for a wide range of other landbird studies. Survey veterans, for example, were an expe- rienced mainstay of the corps of volunteer observers who gathered data for the breeding bird atlases published for most provinces of Canada since the mid-1980s. CWS stalwarts such as Tony Erskine^^ in the Maritimes, Jean Gauthier and Yves Aubry^^ in Quebec, Steven C. (Steve) Curtis in Ontario, and Geoffrey (Geoff) Holroyd in Alberta played lead roles in these ambitious partnerships, securing fund- ing and collaborating closely with their counterparts in provincial government agencies and universities, and with thousands of amateur and professional ornithologists. The Breeding Bird Survey and the breeding bird atlas projects were not the only surveys of landbird populations in which CWS played an important role. Starting with a pilot study in 1987, CWS biologist Dan Welsh of the Ontario regional staff initiated a volunteer-based Forest Bird Monitoring Program in association with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Focusing on old-growth pine forest in the Temagami district, the program used a standardized method similar to that of the Breeding Bird Survey, although, since the survey areas were inacc
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