[BCNnet] Project assistance request: European Starlings

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:49:28 -0800

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Hello IBETers and BCNeters, I am forwarding this message from Bill Mueller,
who lives just over the northern Illinos border in Milwaukee. He is doing a
research project and could use your help. Look for an article by Bill about
the declining population of Red-headed Woodpeckers in a future issue of
Meadowlark: A Journal of ILlinois Birds. Bill's Email address follows this
request.

>From Bill Mueller:

Request for assistance with new research project: A number of cavity-nesting
birds have declining populations. These

include the Red-headed Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, and Purple Martin.Other
species continue to need human assistance to maintain or increase their
populations (Eastern Bluebird is a prime example). One factor implicated in
the population declines of these cavity-nesting birds is "interference
competition" with the European Starling. Please consider assisting with a
new multi-year research project, which has the objective of determining the
effect of starlings as competitors for nest cavities. This research would
require observation of existing nest cavities or nest boxes. New nest boxes
for various species (especially the Northern Flicker) can be constructed and
monitored as part of this project, if desired. If this option is chosen,
data from this project can be additionally provided to existing research
efforts such as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Birdhouse Network.

This project is in the planning stage, and I would like to determine if a
sufficient number of cooperators/participants would be interested. If you
would consider assisting with this effort, please write to me backchannel,
and I will supply further information and add your name to the list of
possible cooperators. Thanks in advance for your help!

Bill Mueller

iltlawas@earthlink.net

Milwaukee

Sheryl De Vore
sdevore@voyager.net
Mundelein, Illinois

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