More about Bandops/Bandzip

The National Ecological Surveys Team (NEST) is a joint venture of the Office of Inventory and Monitoring's Population Monitoring Group and Patuxent Environmental Science Center's Branch of Migratory Bird Research.

NEST evaluates ecological inventory, monitoring and analysis programs, designs nationwide species and population monitoring surveys, develops methods for the analysis of resulting data to estimate the status and trends of the nation's biotic diversity, and maintains partnerships for analysis and data management with cooperating organizations.

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BAND-OPS.EXE
The Banding Operations Database supports banding operations by automating many record keeping requirements. The program was written by B. H. Powell to maintain band inventories, enter and check banding data, print banding schedules, report accomplishments and manage encounter data. Data from banding operations at several sites can be merged. Information on previously banded birds is easily available. Banding files from nearby sites can be included to provide information on recaptures. Although it is not a product of the Bird Banding Laboratory, they will accept the printed schedules generated by the program. B.H. developed the program to help him with his banding operation and has shared it with others. Many banders have used it in the field for 2 seasons and have found this menu driven program to be very useful and easy to use. A 29-page users manual is available.

BANDZIP.EXE
The Band Analysis System is a tool for those who analyze banding data. The program is menu driven and allows users to select options with a mouse. It selects banding and recovery records based on the species, age, sex, banding and recovery dates and locations and permit numbers as well as on codes for condition, status, how obtained and who and why reported. The data may be summarized and customized reports may be produced with the number of birds banded and recovered by any combination of species, age, sex, banding and recovery state or area and month or period. Direct reporting rates and proportional distribution of birds to recovery areas are provided. Survival and reporting rates can be estimated through an interface to the MULT program, which includes ESTIMATE and BROWNIE estimates. Maps of banding and recovery locations and maps of the numbers of birds banded and recovered by state can be produced with third party mapping packages and the data files output by this program. The program was written by Paul Geissler and is at the alpha development stage, with emphasis on developing useful features.

NEWS4B22.txt
NEST news (11/22/94) in ASCII text.

ECOLOGICAL.SURVEY
A post on NBS Forum and the internet requesting comments on NBS's participation in an interagency ecological monitoring survey yielded 40 pages of comments from 41 people. 41 people.