AT21-511 Webinar Chasing Black Rails in Coastal Texas

Webinar Title: Chasing Black Rails in Coastal Texas

AT-VMS: AT: Hill Country Chapter Webinars (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, and Presenter)

Comments: AT21-511 Webinar Chasing Black Rails in Coastal Texas, Presenter: Amanda Haverland (AT=1h)

Webinar Date: 10/20/2021
Webinar Time: 12:00p-1:00p

Event Summary:
Learn about Black Rails

Event Description:
The distribution and life history of the Black Rail is poorly studied in Texas. From 2015 to 2018, I studied the spatial ecology and habitat requirements of Black Rails in marshes of the Texas Gulf Coast. Through the application of occupancy models, radio telemetry, and capture-recapture studies, I provide an evaluation of factors that influence the distribution of Black Rails at multiple spatial scales in coastal Texas. More specifically, I developed a species distribution model for the species in coastal Texas to identify important areas for the bird on a landscape-scale, estimated home range size and examined habitat associations at the home-range scale, and looked at effects of disturbance from prescribed fire within Black Rail habitats.

Cost: no charge

Register @: https://bit.ly/3FnLr29

Presenter:
Amanda Haverland, Southern Great Plains Science Coordinator, American Bird Conservancy

Contact Information:
[email protected]

Organization Website:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/

Sponsoring Organization:
TPWD Wildlife Diversity