In addition to the international/national bird conservation plans, the GCJV has it's own set of conservation plans, designed specifically for each Initiative Area and their specific priority habitats. The GCJV also has conservaton plans for a subset of priority species, and is working on developing plans for all GCJV priority species. In addition to these Initiative Area and species plans, the GCJV also maintains several habitat monitoring plans, designed to document various remote sensing-based habitat monitoring efforts. These plans are complemented by GCJV affiliated research conducted by both university-based and federal and state wildlife researchers, targeted to help test many of the assumptions made in the biological planning process.
Waterfowl
- 2021 Gulf Coast Joint Venture Wintering Waterfowl Population and Habitat Objective Model Refinement (PDF)
- 2014 Spatially-Explicit Decision Support Tool for Guiding Habitat Conservation for Western Gulf Coast Mottled Ducks (Downloadable Data)
- 2023 Mottled Duck Conservation Plan Update (High-resolution PDF) (Low-resolution PDF)
Landbirds
- 2008 GCJV Landbird Conservation Plan BCR 37 (PDF)
- 2012 GCJV Landbird Conservation Plan BCR 25-27 (PDF)
- 2018 Setting Northern Bobwhite Objectives for the Gulf Coastal Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative: A Tri-JV Initiative (PDF)
Shorebirds
Waterbirds
Note: These are truncated versions of detailed plans for each species or guild. Detailed plans can be found within the current GCJV conservation plan section above.
Pre-2000
2000-2004
- 2002 Evaluation Plan (PDF)
- 2003 Estimation of Waterfowl Food Abundance in Coastal Freshwater Marshes of Louisiana and Texas (PDF)
2005-2009
- 2006 Beach‐nesting Bird Census and Report for Coastal Mississippi (PDF)
- 2006 Survival and Habitat Use of Female Northern Pintails Wintering Along the Central Coast of Texas (PDF)
- 2006 Utilization of Shoalgrass resources and Nutrional Ecology of Wintering Redheads in the Laguna Madre of Texas (PDF)
- 2006 Coastal Marsh Restoration Using Terraces: Effects on Waterbird Habitat in Louisiana's Chenier Plain (PDF)
- 2007 Beach‐nesting Bird Census and Report for Coastal Mississippi (PDF)
- 2007 Regional and Long-Range Movements of Female Gadwalls Along the Gulf Coast: A Pilot Study (PDF)
- 2007 Occurrence of mottled duck nests on constructed marsh terraces in Louisiana and Texas – a pilot study (PDF)
- 2007 Survival, Habitat Use, and Movements of Female Mallard Wintering in Southwestern Louisiana. (PDF)
- 2008 Survival, Habitat Use, and Movements of Female Northern Pintails Wintering Along the Texas Coast (PDF)
- 2009 Conservation Planning for the Coastal Prairie Region of Louisiana (PDF)
2010-2014
- 2010 Wilson's Plover Breeding Biology Study at Select Sites in Coastal Louisiana (PDF)
- 2010 Habitat Use, Movements, and Spring Migration Chronology and Corridors of Female Gadwalls That Winter Along the Louisiana Gulf Coast (PDF)
- 2011 Potential use of Weather Radar to Study Movements of Wintering Waterfowl (PDF)
- 2012 Habitat Use, Movements, and Ecology of Female Mottled Ducks on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas (PDF)
- 2012 Survival and Post-Breeding Habitat Use of Mottled Ducks in the Western Gulf Coast (PDF)
- 2012 Gulf Coast Joint Venture Priority Waterfowl Science Needs (PDF)
- 2012 Application of a Spatially Explicit Individual-Based Model to Conservation of Migrating Songbirds (PDF)
- 2012 Statistical Power and Population Trends of High Conservation Priority Bird Species Within the Gulf Coast Joint Venture Region (Final Report) (PDF)
- 2012 Modeling the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Coastal Marsh Birds (PDF)
- 2012 Priority Waterfowl Science Needs
- 2013 Plover and Least Tern Nest Monitoring and Disturbance Comparisons between Three Coastal Sites in Texas
- 2013 Seed and waterbird abundances in ricelands in the Gulf Coast Prairies of Louisiana and Texas (PDF)
- 2013 Stopover Ecology of Nearctic-Neotropical Landbird Migrants Within an Urban Coastal Landscape (PDF)
- 2014 Decision Support Tool: Prioritization of Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) Habitat for Conservation and Management in the Western Gulf Coast (PDF)
- 2014 The Reproductive and Foraging Ecology of Black Skimmers on a Barrier Island Refuge in Coastal Louisiana (PDF)
- 2014 Delineation of Marsh Types of the Texas Coast from Corpus Christi Bay to the Sabine River in 2010 (PDF)
2015-2020
- 2015 Hybridization and Population Structure of Western Gulf Coast Mottled Ducks (PDF)
- 2015 Review of the Benefits of Marsh Terraces in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (PDF)
- 2015 Delineation of Marsh Types From Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, to Perdido Bay, Alabama, in 2010 (PDF)
- 2015 Hybridization and Population Structure of Western Gulf Coast Mottled Ducks (PDF)
- 2015 Wading Bird Food Availability in Rice Fields and Crawfish Ponds of the Chenier Plain of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas (PDF)
- 2016 Testing Habitat Model Assumptions for Seaside Sparrows in Northern Gulf Coast Tidal Marsh (PDF)
- 2016 Evaluating the Effects of Coastal Restoration on Shorebirds and Shorebird Habitats in Cameron Parish, Louisiana (PDF)
- 2016 Nesting and Foraging Ecology of Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) in Coastal Louisiana following the BP Oil Spill: Final Report (PDF)
- 2017 Surveying Mixed-Species Waterbird Colonies with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS): Visibility Bias, Disturbance, and Protocol Recommendations (PDF)
- 2017 Estimates of waste rice, natural seeds, and wetland birds in Gulf Coast Prairie ricelands during fall–winter (PDF)
- 2018 GCJV Priority Science Needs for Landbirds, Shorebirds, and Waterbirds (PDF)
- 2018 Waterfowl foraging habitat abundance in forested wetlands of the Gulf Coast Joint Venture region (PDF)
- 2018 Contemporary Refinements to Gulf Coast Joint Venture Population and Habitat Objectives and Landscape Assessments for Wintering Waterfowl (PDF)
2021-2025
- Desired Characteristics of Joint Venture Partnerships (PDF)
- Strategic Habitat Conservation Report June 2006 (PDF)
- GCJV Priority Species - Landbird, Shorebirds, and Waterbirds(PDF)
Note: These documents contain out-dated population and/or habitat objectives, but include potentially relevant background information or derivation descriptions.
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