We will choose four to six different general areas around campus. These parts of campus will be monitored for two hours at approximately the same time of day to determine how dense the overall population is in the area. The areas used in the experiment will vary in usual habitation by humans, ranging from almost no habitation (forested area) to areas in high in everyday foot traffic (uptown). Two times each week, we will observe the bird population in each of these areas for the size of the population of birds and what species of birds make up that population. These observations will be recorded, both on paper and with photographs. We will tabulate the number and types of birds present.
When the final data is collected and analyzed, we hope to find varying degrees of bird populaiton and species in correlation to the varying degrees of human population.
CAN YOU PLEASE COMMENT ON:
Ideas to determine population density?
Places for observation?
Ways to observe bird population density?
(ex: birds/hour, birds/person, birds/day, etc.)
Any other comments or concerns are welcome!!
Thank you,
The Bird Group: Nancy, Aaron, Ina, Jillian, and Mike G.
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