Migration Examples from the Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative

<div><p><font color='#000000' face='Calibri, sans-serif' size='4'>This feature service is for a web map that includes stopover locations from several migrating woodcock, collected as GPS point data by the Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative. Each layer shows the total points transmitted by a single migrating bird, and layer names indicates the state where the individual was initially captured and outfitted with a transmitter. </font></p></div><div><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>This StoryMap describes how decades of Wildlife Restoration funding helped study, monitor and manage woodcock across all parts of its range. It was developed for the USFWS Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program's &quot;Partner with a Payer&quot; initiative using spatial data from the </span><a href='https://www.woodcockmigration.org/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative</a><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'> and the </span><a href='https://gis-midnr.opendata.arcgis.com/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Michigan Department of Natural Resources</a><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>. The story covers population surveys, migration tracking, habitat restoration, and other aspects of woodcock research and management conducted with Wildlife Restoration funding.</span></div>