Interested in #nightjars and mourning the loss of your field season?

To add to the list of datasets available for use:

@ECCCWildlifeSci and I compiled a database of all Common Nighthawk surveys conducted in Canada from 1995-2017.

The database has 30,000 observations of CONI at 500,000 surveys across 52 different projects.

Projects include human point counts and ARU surveys.

Data at minimum includes presence/absence OR abundance, time, date, and location.

Depending on project, data may also include detectability covariates like wind, cloud cover, detection distance, and noise.

Data may also include behavioural and detection type (call/wingboom/visual) details.

The database would be ideal for:
-Modelling differential habitat relationships
-Developing methods to integrate human and ARU data
-Creative approaches to density estimation. We& #39;ve made some headway on this already, but would love to push it further

Give me a shout if you& #39;re interested! We& #39;d love to see this data used.

And the species is so understudied that there& #39;s lots of neat questions to ask.

Working with nighthawks is tricky, but believe me, it& #39;ll grow on you https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Red heart" aria-label="Emoji: Red heart">

Photo: Anne Brigham

Sigh... wrong collaborator tag. Sorry @ECCCWildlifeSci! The collaborator on this dataset is @environmentca.