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Oases 
 
Overview
 
Migration
 
What is it?
 
How does it work?
 
Stopover Sites
 
NJ’s Importance in Migration
 
Migration Study
 
Radar
 
What Radar Images Can Tell Us
 
Species Composition
 
One Fantastic Flight
 
Identifying Stopover Sites
 
Stopover Site Models
 
Action
 
What can you do?
 
Park Flight Partners and Projects
 
Creating a Backyard Habitat
 
 

NJ stopover site models
 

 
  • 25 migration events

  • Bird density/cell (summed over 25 events); range = 58-7761 birds/km3

  • 70th percentile = cells >1307 birds/km3 

  • No cells showed migration during more than 24 events

  • 70th percentile = cells >11 nights of migration

  • 26 migration events
  • Bird density/cell (summed over 26 events); range = 58-15322 birds/km3
  • 70th percentile = cells >2327 birds/km3. 
  • No cells showed migration during more than 25 events
  • 70th percentile = cells >22 nights of migration

  • 27 migration events
  • Bird density/cell (summed over 25 MIG events); range = 58-4149 birds/km3
  • 70th percentile = cells >1214 birds/km3 
  • Some cells showed migration during all 27 events
  • 70th percentile = cells >16 nights of migration
  • 26 migration events
  • Bird density/cell (summed over 26 MIG events); range = 58-7723 birds/km3
  • 70th percentile = cells >1937 birds/km3 
  • Some cells showed migration during during all 26 migration events
  • 70th percentile = cells >22 nights of migration

 

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