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Harbor Herons, Cormorants, and More - Current Research and Future Planning

The Urban Resources Partnership (URP) is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that makes federal resources available directly to community-based and community-driven environmental projects in under-served neighborhoods of select metropolitan areas. At least seven federal agencies, including the USDA Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service, are providing funds and on-site technical assistance to education and restoration efforts in 13 cities throughout the country. URP NYC has worked to coordinate restoration efforts through its partnership with Friends of Gateway, the National Open Space Coalition, and five local community groups.

Activities/Projects:

Principal Investigator	Title	Start Date	Stop Date	Purpose
Luis Hernandez	Soil Survey of the Entire Gateway NRA, NY and NJ	4/18/2001	12/31/2001	To learn about characteristics of soils throughout all three Units of Gateway NRA. Will provide report, maps and digitized data for GIS

The Jamaica Bay Institute (JBI) at Gateway National Recreation Area (GNRA), along with Wildlife Trust, Harbor Herons Subcommittee of the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service sponsored the Harbor Herons, Cormorants, and More - Current Research and Future Planning meeting, November 30 - December 1, 2006, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York. The 2-day gathering featured the Harbor Herons Sub-Committee Meeting, followed by sessions including Monitoring Methodology, Environmental Toxins, Bioindicators, and Habitat Quality, Colonial Waterbird Populations beyond Harbor Herons, Population Perspectives, and Double-crested Cormorants.

Citations:

Hernandez, L. (editor). 2001. Soil survey of Gateway National Recreation Area, New York and New Jersey. Interim Report. USDA/NRCS, USDOI/NPS/Gateway NRA, and Cornell Univ. Agric. Experiment Station. Draft of September 2001, looseleaf plus oversize maps. (RIC).

Dolbeer, R.A., Carrara, M.S. and Chipman, R.B. 1999. Airside vegetation management at John F. Kennedy International Airport: bird use of mowed and unmoved plots, 1998. Draft report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 15pp.

Dolbeer, R.A. and Chipman, R.B. 1998. Shooting gulls to reduce strikes with aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 1991-1998. Draft report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 32 pp.

Dolbeer, R.A. and Wright, S.E. 1998. Ranking the hazard level to wildlife species to aviation using the national wildlife strike database. Draft report. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Sandusky, OH. 17pp.

Dolbeer, R.A. and Bucknall, J.L. 1997. Shooting gulls to reduce strikes with aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 1991-1997. Draft report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 33 pp. (JABERRT # 97, RIC # 133).

Dolbeer, R.A., Belant, J.L. and Bernhardt, G.E. 1997. Aerial photography techniques to estimate populations of Laughing Gull nest in Jamaica Bay, New York, 1992-1995. Colonial Waterbirds 20(1):8.

Dolbeer, R.A. 1994. Laughing Gull nests in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge marshes [aerial photos with overlays] 6-9-94. U.S. Department of the Agriculture, Animal Damage Control, Sandusky, OH.

Dolbeer, R.A., Belant, J.L. 1994. Differential band wear for male and female Laughing Gulls. Journal of Field Ornithology. 65(4):543-550.

Dolbeer, R.A. and Bucknall, J.L. 1994. Shooting Gulls reduces strikes with aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 1991-1993. Bird Strike Committee Europe. 1929 Aug 2, Vienna, Austria.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1994. Gull hazard reduction program at JFK International Airport. Final Environmental Impact Statement. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal Damage Control, Pittstown, NJ.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. 1994. Gull hazard reduction program, John F. Kennedy International Airport. Draft environmental impact statement.

Dolbeer, R.A., Belant, J.L. and Sillings, J.L. 1993. Shooting Gulls reduces strikes with aircraft at JFK International Airport. Wildlife Society Bulletin 21:442-450.

Sillings, J.L.. 1993. Gull control at John F. Kennedy International Airport, alternative NEPA compliance environmental assessment.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Damage Control, Pittstown, NJ. 17 pp. plus 10 pp. appendices.

Sillings, J.L, Dolbeer, R.A., Wadleigh, R., Bedford, M. and Falzetta, G.T. 1992. Environmental assessment: interim operational gull control program, John F. Kennedy Airport, Jamaica, New York.

Dolbeer, R.A., Belant, J.L. and Sillings, J.L. 1992. Shotgun shooting to reduce airstrikes by Laughing Gulls at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 1991 and 1992.

Seubert, J.L.. 1990. Reducing gull hazard to aviation by controlling nesting populations. Proceedings of Bird Strike Committee Europe 20:613-642.

Dolbeer, R.A., Chevalier, M., Woronecki, P.P. and Butler, E.B. 1989. Laughing Gulls at Kennedy Airport: safety hazard or wildlife resource? In: S.R. Craven and S. Nichols, eds. Proceedings of the Fourth Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference. pp 37-44.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Date unknown. Environmental assessment, interim operational Gull control program, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, NY. Draft.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Damage Control, Pittstown, NJ. 55pp.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Damage Control, Pittstown, NJ. 56pp.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, APHIS, Denver Wildlife Research Center. Sandusky, OH. 31 pp.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Date unknown. Management of herring and greater black-backed Gull to protect nesting Piping Plovers on the Breezy Point Unit of the Gateway NRA, Brooklyn, NY. Final Project Report.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Damage Control, Pittstown, NJ. 25pp plus 21 pp appendices.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Hyattsville, MD. 500pp.

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