Research Methods
Do you plan to capture Rusty Blackbirds as part of your research? If so, please follow the protocols when you have a bird in the hand:
PDF: Breeding Grounds Working Scheme
PDF: Wintering Grounds Working Scheme
Are you surveying for Rusty Blackbirds on the breeding grounds? If so, please consider following these protocols that to date have been used in the Northeast to survey more than 1000 wetlands:
PDF: Rusty Blackbird Monitoring plan for northeast North America, 2009
PDF: Vermont survey protocols, 2012, J. Scarl