Goal: Standardized monitoring of bird communities in parks, washes, and other areas of bird/birding interest.

What's Involved: A birder or group of birders with interest in a particular area adopts that area. The group spends 4 mornings a year birding the area, recording all species seen or heard. In addition, one or more people from the group conduct a series of point counts or transects during the morning. These counts are more finely spaced than the sites on Standard TBC Routes, and are standardized so that data can be compared over time. See the Park Monitoring Instructions for more details.

Sites currently being monitored are shown on the map below.

Dates:

Parks are visited one morning during each of the following 4 periods:

Requirements:

Group Leaders:

• Handle registration with TBC, park adoption, coordination of group members at survey time, and data entry.
• Should only adopt areas that they can continue to monitor in future years.
• Must meet the TBC qualifications outlined in the Self-Screening.

  Other Group Members

• Only those conducting point counts must meet the TBC qualifications outlined in the Self-Screening.
• Those conducting point counts should also be able to monitor in future years.

I'm interested. What now?

1. Pick a park...or other area that you'd like to monitor. It can be a neighborhood or city park, section of wash, "natural" park, or any other area you like to bird. Sites currently being monitored are shown on the map above. If a park you're interested in has been adopted (), you can contact that park's Group Leader about helping out, or adopt a park of your own.

	Park/Monitoring Area	Group Leader
	Agua Caliente Park	Denis Wright
	Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum	Norma Miller
	Arroyo Chico Wash	Vivian Mac Kinnon
	Arthur Pack Regional Park	Diana Videtti
	Borton Environmental Learning Lab/Borton Elementary	The Quail Room
	Canada del Oro Wash (north of Tangerine)	Cia Wells
	Case Natural Resources Park	leader needed
	Catalina State Park	Bob Shank Jr.
	Columbus Park / Santa Cruz River	Kendall Kroesen
	Fred Enke Wash / Atterbury Wash	Bruce Prior
	Ft. Lowell Park	leader needed
	James Kriegh Park	John Scheuring
	Kennedy Park	John Higgins
	Kino Ecosystem Restoration Project	leader needed
	Mason Audubon CenterJohn Scheuring	Peggy Wenrick
	Reid Park	Carla Danforth
	Rio Vista Natural Resources Park	Trica Oshant Hawkins
	McCormick Park	Mark Stevenson
	Saguaro National Park: Rincon Mountain District	Larry Norris
	Saguaro National Park: Tucson Mountain District	Ethan Beasley
	Sweetwater Wetlands	Ries Lindley
	Tanque Verde Wash	Paul Green
	Tohono Chul Park	Larry Norris
	Tucson Botanical Gardens	Aleck Mac Kinnon
	Tucson Mountain Park	Larry Liese
	University of Arizona Campus	Jenise Porter
	West Branch Santa Cruz	Susan Randolph
	Woodland Rd. area	Brian Nicholas
	Available sites:
	Mount Lemmon	leader needed
	Canada del Oro (south of Tangerine)	leader needed
	Willow Springs (Pinal County)	leader needed
	Other sites of interest	leader needed

2. Get a group of birders together...

who are interested in monitoring the area. The minimum group size depends on the size of the park: one person may be enough for smaller parks, more for larger ones.

3. Become familiar with the area...

if you aren't already (e.g., know what's accessible, make access arrangements if necessary).

4. Email us...

the area you'd like to adopt. We will work with you in planning the counts for your area. Each time your group surveys the area, you'll enter your data into the TBC database.