Mountain Birdwatch – Maps and GIS Data
NEW! Interactive Maps of Mountain Birdwatch Observations
Select any Mountain Birdwatch route and view species counts from 2000-2006, survey history, and geographic information for each survey location. Click on one of the themed links below and browse to the area of your interest or use the binoculars button to go directly to a particular mountain. Special thanks to the Stone House Farm Fund for supporting the development of these maps. Please note that all species counts are from point counts. An "NS" denotes that the route was not surveyed.
Bicknell's Thrush presence and counts
Counts of the five target species
Mountain Birdwatch survey locations
View Mountain Birdwatch route locations in Google Earth
Download the kml file by right-clicking here and selecting save as. Save the file to your desktop, then double-click on the icon and Google Earth should open and display the route locations! Download Google Earth for free here.
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VINS Releases New Map of Bicknell's Thrush Habitat
Bicknell's Thrush breeding distribution in the northeastern U.S.
Bicknell's Thrush breeding and wintering distributions
Bicknell's Thrush all through the year (migration route included)
Bicknell's Thrush on the Appalachian Trail
Bicknell's Thrush counts on Mountain Birdwatch routes in 2003
Download GIS files¹
Mountains with known occurrences of Bicknell's Thrush between 1992 and 2003
Counts of Bicknell's Thrush 2001-2004
Counts of Blackpoll Warbler 2001-2004
Counts of Swainson's Thrush 2001-2004
Counts of Winter Wren 2001-2004
Counts of White-throated Sparrow 2001-2004
Counts of five focal species 2001-2004
¹Instructions for converting Excel (.xls) files to shape (.shp) files in your GIS project.
1. Download Excel file.
2. Save as text (tab delimited) (.txt).
3. Add text file as a table to your project.
4. Add table as an event theme to your view, designating DecDegW as the x-coordinate and DecDegN as the y-coordinate.
5. Convert to shape file.
6. Project from decimal degrees to new projection, if desired.
Request GIS files
The following data layers are available by email request to jhart@vinsweb.org:
Bicknell's Thrush habitat model - grid of 30-m conifer cells described in A practical model of Bicknell's Thrush habitat in the northeastern United States
High-elevation habitat units (shape file depicting land areas that lie above the typical lower limit of Bicknell's Thrush distribution)
Mountain Birdwatch survey routes (shape file showing approximate locations of Mountain Birdwatch survey stations – 90% complete)
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