I plan on conducting playback surveys at points for Owls along an urban-to-rural gradient in Western Massachusetts. Some sites are pretty rural, but others need to be in more urban areas (e.g., just outside of forested parks). In a perfect world, Owl surveys should be conducted from 1 hour after sunset until about 3 a.m., but this presents unique safety challenges in urban areas (along with permitting issues). How would one go about surveying for Owls in these urban sites with undergraduate field technician safety in mind? The owls I will be surveying for are Northern Saw-whet, Eastern Screech, Barn, Barred, Great Horned. Thanks much!
Community support is important in this case. This means that besides the permit issues that you would need to resolve, you should engage key stake holders in the communities as well as members of the neighborhood within which you would be working. Once they are aware of what you are doing and give you the blessing for it you would be safe. You may even get volunteers if you go about this properly.
Validation of a citizen science-based model of site occupancy for eastern screech owls with systematic data in suburban New York and Connecticut
C Nagy, K Bardwell, RF Rockwell, R Christie, M Weckel - 2012 - BioOne
1. Model covariate means and sampled ranges used for occupancy estimation of Eastern
Screech-owls in Westchester ... Table 2. AIC c results for occupancy (ψ) models of Eastern
Screech-owl observations using citizen science-based call-playback surveys in Westchester ...
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Population Dynamics and Occupancy Patterns of Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops Asio) in New York City Parks and Adjacent Suburbs
CM Nagy - 2012 - academicworks.cuny.edu
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