Alaska Science Center


USGS Alaska Science Center Wildlife Tracking Data Collection

An overall project that describes the USGS Alaska Science Center wildlife tracking data collection.

Abstract


Understanding the short- and long-distance movements of wildlife is critical for a wide variety of ecological research studies and management decisions. Since the mid-1980s, the USGS Alaska Science Center has used information from telemetry devices on wildlife species to determine locations of animals throughout their annual cycles, understand patterns of habitat use, quantify time spent on various behaviors, determine timing of life cycle events, and identify geographic areas repeatedly used by wildlife that may be of significance to other species and populations.
Products
Title Type
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tracking Data for Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) Data
Tracking Data for Long-billed Curlews (Numenius americanus)Data
Tracking Data for Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica)Data
Tracking Data for Buff-Breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis)Data
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tracking Data for Steller's Eiders (Polysticta stelleri)Data
Tracking Data for Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)Data
Tracking Data for Long-tailed Ducks (Clangula hyemalis)Data
Tracking Data for Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima)Data
Tracking Data for Kittlitz’s Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris)Data
Tracking Data for Whooper Swans (Cygnus cygnus)Data
Tracking Data for Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons)Data
Tracking data for Emperor Geese (Anser canagicus)Data
Tracking data for Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis)Data
Tracking Data for Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata)Data
Tracking Data for Pelagic Cormorants (Phalacrocorax pelagicus)Data
Tracking Data for Red-faced Cormorants (Phalacrocorax urile)Data
Tracking Data for Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia) Data
Tracking Data for Common Murres (Uria aalge)Data
Tracking Data for Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri) Data
Tracking Data for Three Large-bodied Gull Species and Hybrids (Larus spp.)Data
Tracking Data for Black Scoters (Melanitta americana)Data
Tracking Data for Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)Data
Movements and habitat use of loons for assessment of conservation buffer zones in the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern AlaskaPublication
Tracking Data for Pacific Loons (Gavia pacifica)Data
Tracking Data for Red-throated Loons (Gavia stellata)Data
Tracking Data for Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus)Data
Tracking Data for Yellow-billed Loons (Gavia adamsii)Data
Tracking Data for Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)Data
Tracking Data for Northern Pintails (Anas acuta)Data
Tracking Data for Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)Data
USGS Alaska Science Center Wildlife Tracking Data CollectionData

Contacts

Status: onGoing
Start Year: 1985
End Year: 2024

USGS Mission Area and Program
Ecosystems → Cooperative Research Units
Ecosystems → Wildlife Program
Land Resources → Science Support for DOI Bureaus

Major Initiatives
EVOS - Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
FWS - Migratory Bird Management Program
FWS - Science Support Program
JV - Arctic Goose Joint Venture
JV - Sea Duck Joint Venture
NPS - Natural Resource Preservation Program
USGS - Changing Arctic Ecosystems Initiative