Connecticut Warbler Photo: Brock & Sherri Fenton
Canadian Migration Monitoring Network (CMMN): Additional Resources
Videos from virtual meetings
Standardizing migration monitoring at your CMMN station – Why standard protocols matter
CMMN Migration Monitoring Data put to work – CMMN’s feather studies help determine migration routes
CMMN 2023 Annual Meeting Part 1
CMMN 2023 Annual Meeting Part 2
Materials for members
CMMN Membership Memorandum of Agreement – Signing the MOU is the last step in becoming a member station, but should be read early in the process to ensure that applicants understand the rights and responsibilities they will be committing to.
Standardizing migration monitoring at your station – This video indicates the purpose and value of standardized counts for the purpose of trend monitoring.
Protocol Guidelines – A key requirement for membership is to write an operations protocol that fully describes how data are collected; a resource both for participants and for users of the data. This can be a big job when started from scratch, but the template and advice in this document makes it a lot simpler.
CMMN Habitat Assessment Instructions – As described in the protocol guidelines, CMMN member stations are required to schedule photographic records of the habitat in the study area, and participants in the Trend Monitoring Program are strongly encouraged to periodically do a more formal assessment of habitat structure. This document gives full instructions.
CMMN Habitat Assessment – Data Form – This form summarizes Habitat Assessment data and is used to report results to Birds Canada
DET Software v2.1 and DET Software instructions – CMMN members commit to submitting their data to Birds Canada annually using this software, designed specifically for easy transmittal of data to the file format used for archiving and distributing data via NatureCounts. The accompanying manual explains modifications the user can make to accommodate their own data-collection methods.
CMMN operations protocols
