Greetings Upper Valley Birders,
This summer, NH Audubon will be launching a short-term project to assess the current status of Olive-sided Flycatcher New Hampshire. This species has been declining range-wide, but data for NH are limited because Olive-sided Flycatcher habitat is often not in close proximity to the roadside Breeding Bird Survey routes that we rely on for population trend data. To this end, I will be coordinating an “Olive-sided Flycatcher Blitz” in the summer of 2014 (and maybe into 2015). More details on this will come out in the spring, but as part of the project I am also mining eBird for recent reports of Olive-sided Flycatchers in the state. If you have seen this species in NH during the breeding season (roughly late May through early August) in the last 10 years or so, it would be GREAT if you could enter any records into eBird. The more recent data we get, the easier it will be to target areas during the blitz this summer.
So if you have Olive-sided Flycatcher records for New Hampshire from 2005 onward, it would be much appreciated if they get entered into eBird. And many thanks to those of you who have already entered such records. Hopefully these data will help us determine how Olive-sided Flycatcher populations have changed since the Breeding Bird Atlas in the early 1980s.
Pam
Pamela D. Hunt, Ph.D.
Avian Conservation Biologist
NH Audubon
84 Silk Farm Road
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 224-9909 x328
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