Gary Ivey
Gary L. Ivey, International Crane Foundation, Bend, Oregon
Gary L. Ivey, International Crane Foundation, Bend, Oregon
http://www.savingcranes.org
“Working worldwide to conserve cranes and the wetland, grassland, and other ecosystems upon which they depend”
Gary works for International Crane Foundation and is also a PhD candidate at Oregon State University (OS). His undergraduate degree is from Humboldt State and Masters in Wildlife Science is from OS. Gary served as a biologist at several western National Wildlife Refuges for 18 years (15 at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge). He has over 30 years of experience working with wetlands, waterfowl and waterbird management and conservation planning in the west, with particular emphasis on sandhill cranes in the Pacific Flyway. Gary is the primary author of the Intermountain West Region Waterbird Conservation Plan and is assisting the Intermountain West Joint Venture with waterbird conservation planning. His PhD project is a study of wintering ecology of sandhill cranes in California.
Abstract: Importance of western wetland basins to aquatic migratory birds
The North American west contains some of the driest regions on the continent, where wetlands are isolated oases in this desert region. The region supports a great diversity of wetland habitats both within wetland basins and on a regional scale and these habitats support very high numbers of aquatic migratory birds. Literally millions of aquatic birds depend on these wetlands which support more than half the world’s population of some aquatic bird species. These wetlands provide critical breeding, migration and wintering habitats for a great diversity of aquatic birds. This paper will review our knowledge of the importance and connectivity of major wetland basins to migratory birds and review a few case studies of connectivity and movements of birds across this landscape.
Bird Refuge - Charles Uibel
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