Paper forms as alternative

Cover Sheet
Directions:
On this Cover Sheet, please report information to describe each visit to the site. On the Animal Checklist, please list the species of animals you are looking for
at the site and record whether or not you saw or heard that species on each visit. On the Plant and Animal Phenophase Datasheets, please record the
phenophases you observed on each visit for your individual plants and your animal species.

Site: Seneca & Campbell Alley
Year: 2015
Observer: Alyssa Rosemartin

Below, please fill in the date and time of your site visit in the first rows. Then, estimate your contribution of time to the project for that visit, separating the
time it took you to travel to the site and the time you spent making observations on plants and animals once you arrived at the site. If you are observing
animals, report the time you specifically spent searching for animals and circle the appropriate letter for your observation method (there is no need to report
time for incidental sightings):
i – incidental: chance sighting while not specifically searching
s – stationary: standing or sitting at a single point
w – walking: a single pass or transect through your site
a – area search: multiple passes through your site
If there is snow on the ground or in the canopy (treetops), please make a note of it in the third section and estimate the percent of the ground at your
site that the snow is covering. After each visit, please enter the information from these datasheets online.

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Report your animal observation methods
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Report on snow
Is there snow on the ground?
% of ground covered
Is there snow in the canopy?
Check when data entered online:

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Contact: [email protected] | More information: www.usanpn.org/how-observe

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Species:
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(flower visiting)
Nickname:
Directions: Fill in the date and time in the top rows and circle the appropriate letter in the column below.
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y (phenophase is occurring); n (phenophase is not occurring); ? (not certain if the phenophase is occurring).
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Do not circle anything if you did not check for the phenophase. In the adjacent blank, write in the appropriate measure of intensity or abundance for this phenophase.
Observer:

Songbirds

Do you see/hear...

Toxostoma curvirostre
curve-billed thrasher
Seneca & Campbell Alley
2015
Alyssa Rosemartin

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Active individuals
Feeding
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Flower visitation
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Nest building
Dead individuals
Individuals at a feeding station
Check when data entered online:

Comments:

Animal Phenophase Datasheet

Contact: [email protected] | More information: www.usanpn.org/how-observe

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501), please note the following. This information collection is authorized by Organic Act, 43 U.S.C. 31 et seq., 1879 and Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act. Your response is voluntary. We estimate that it will take approximately 2 minutes to make and report observations per respondent. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number. OMB has reviewed and approved this information collection and assigned OMB Control Number 1028-0103. You may submit comments on any aspect of this information collection, including the accuracy of the estimated burden hours and suggestions to reduce this burden. Send your comments to: Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 807, Reston, VA 20192. OMB Control #: 1028-0103 Expiration Date: 01/31/2016

Species:
Common Name:
Nickname:
Directions: Fill in the date and time in the top rows and circle the appropriate letter in the column below.
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y (phenophase is occurring); n (phenophase is not occurring); ? (not certain if the phenophase is occurring).
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Do not circle anything if you did not check for the phenophase. In the adjacent blank, write in the appropriate measure of intensity or abundance for this phenophase.
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Cacti

Do you see...

Opuntia acanthocarpa
buck-horn cholla
buck-horn cholla-1
Seneca & Campbell Alley
2015
Alyssa Rosemartin

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Flowers or flower buds
Open flowers
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Check when data entered online:

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Do you see...
Flowers or flower buds
Open flowers
Fruits
Ripe fruits
Recent fruit or seed drop
Check when data entered online:

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Plant Phenophase Datasheet

Contact: [email protected] | More information: www.usanpn.org/how-observe

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501), please note the following. This information collection is authorized by Organic Act, 43 U.S.C. 31 et seq., 1879 and Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act. Your response is voluntary. We estimate that it will take approximately 2 minutes to make and report observations per respondent. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number. OMB has reviewed and approved this information collection and assigned OMB Control Number 1028-0103. You may submit comments on any aspect of this information collection, including the accuracy of the estimated burden hours and suggestions to reduce this burden. Send your comments to: Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 807, Reston, VA 20192. OMB Control #: 1028-0103 Expiration Date: 01/31/2016