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	Mary Klinkel
	Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum	Norma Miller
	Arroyo Chico Wash	Shirley Kurc
	Arthur Pack Regional Park	Diana Videtti
	Atturbury Wash	Matt Griffiths
	Avra Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant	John Higgins
	Barrio Kroeger Lane Neighborhood	Kendall Kroesen
	Big Wash/Oro Valley Marketplace Restoration Area	John Schuering
	Borton Environmental Learning Lab/Borton Elementary	The Quail Room
	Canada del Oro Wash (north of Tangerine)	Carla Danforth
	Case Natural Resources Park	leader needed
	Catalina State Park	Bob Bowers
	Columbus Park / Santa Cruz River	Kendall Kroesen
	Davis Monthan Air Force Base	Mike Sotak
	Elvira Elementary School	Kelley Brooks
	Fred Enke Wash / Lincoln Regional Park	Bruce Prior
	Ft. Lowell Park	Mark and Farrish Sharon
	Greasewood Park	Gay Gilbert
	James Kriegh Park	John Scheuring
	Kennedy Park	John Higgins
	Kino Ecosystem Restoration Project / Sam Lena Park	Brett and Peggy Wilmore
	Mason Audubon Center	Craig Marken
	McCormick Park	Mark Stevenson
	Naranja Town Site	John Scheuring
	North Campbell Neighborhood	Michael Smith
	Pima Canyon Estates	Lud Deppisch
	Reid Park	Carla Danforth
	Rio Vista Natural Resources Park	Trica Oshant Hawkins
	Saguaro National Park: Rincon Mountain District	Larry Norris
	Saguaro National Park: Tucson Mountain District	Ethan Beasley
	Sentinel Peak Park ("A" Mountain)	John Higgins
	Sweetwater Wetlands	Andrew Core
	Tanque Verde Wash	leader needed
	Tohono Chul Park	Philip Kline
	Tucson Botanical Gardens	Nora Miller
	Tucson Mountain Park	Susan Birky
	Tumamoc Hill	Bruce Prior
	University of Arizona Campus	Jenise Porter
	West Branch Santa Cruz	Susan Randolph
	Willow Springs (Pinal County)	Bob Bowers
	Woodland Rd. area	Brian Nicholas
	New Routes
	Mount Lemmon	leader needed
	Canada del Oro (south of Tangerine)	leader needed
	Cortaro Bosque	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.