Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship in the Oil Sands Region of Northeastern Alberta 2024 Annual Report

The Boreal Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (Boreal MAPS) program is part of the Oil Sands Monitoring (OSM) program’s Terrestrial Biological Monitoring (TBM) theme. The Boreal MAPS program was designed to quantify the effects on land bird populations resulting from terrestrial disturbance in the Oil Sands Region (OSR) and has operated every year from 2011 to 2024. Boreal MAPS is a capture-mark-recapture program using bird banding procedures and operates as a surveillance monitoring program to identify land bird population changes and the underlying demographics (vital rates, including population trend or growth rate, productivity, first-year and adult survivorship, proportion of residents, and yearling and adult recruitment) that are responding to terrestrial disturbance in the OSR.