Monarch Monitoring project counts
This page will be updated weekly between September 1 and
October 31. Data represents running seasonal totals for our road
census. The MMP team for 2005 includes Louise Zemaitis, MMP
Coordinator, Liz Kehas, MMP field technician,
Dick Walton, MMP
Director, Kim Peters, Director of Research & Monitoring at CMBO,
and David Mizrahi,Vice President for Research at CMBO.
The Cape May Point Road Census is conducted three times per
day from September 1st through October 31st. Counts are made by
a single observer driving a car approximately 20-25 mi. per hour
along a 5 mile route. All monarchs observed are tallied but no
stops are allowed to count specific concentrations. The route
passes through a variety of habitats including southern hardwood
forest, agricultural field, brackish wetland meadow, suburban
neighborhoods, and coastal dunes along the Atlantic Ocean and
Delaware Bay. See Monarch Monitoring
Project Page for a map of the route.
To put the years' data in perspective, the following table
gives cumulative averages (monarchs observed per hour) at
the end of each week over the last 10 years. Thus the data entry
for each week is the average of the current and all previous
weeks for any given year.
CAPE MAY POINT ROAD CENSUS
1992-1999
| End of Week |
1992 |
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
| 1 |
7.52 |
11.95 |
95.96 |
43.30 |
9.08 |
184.49 |
2.85 |
23.35 |
| 2 |
10.94 |
12.25 |
155.29 |
35.11 |
6.66 |
125.12 |
28.68 |
17.12 |
| 3 |
12.13 |
41.65 |
143.49 |
28.86 |
52.29 |
155.55 |
20.56 |
106.07 |
| 4 |
12.95 |
67.83 |
123.57 |
27.22 |
58.99 |
173.27 |
38.95 |
181.11 |
| 5 |
11.89 |
82.03 |
128.63 |
26.95 |
73.17 |
152.96 |
50.66 |
463.49 |
| 6 |
12.26 |
80.60 |
108.87 |
26.87 |
69.10 |
140.47 |
49.95 |
475.09 |
| 7 |
12.66 |
71.77 |
95.34 |
28.78 |
66.42 |
129.10 |
53.50 |
409.10 |
| 8 |
11.17 |
65.49 |
91.44 |
27.41 |
63.04 |
114.00 |
51.00 |
357.75 |
| Final |
10.41 |
62.88 |
84.95 |
25.89 |
58.91 |
106.61 |
46.82 |
328.56 |
CAPE MAY POINT ROAD CENSUS
2000-2005
| End of Week |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
| 1 |
2.44 |
23.39 |
6.74 |
24.85 |
5.53 |
32.04 |
25.21 |
| 2 |
2.87 |
32.82 |
24.84 |
19.19 |
4.37 |
27.01 |
74.30 |
| 3 |
12.20 |
44.49 |
37.41 |
14.37 |
5.99 |
25.37 |
136.20 |
| 4 |
37.90 |
66.64 |
45.48 |
12.17 |
7.41 |
47.68 |
779.05 |
| 5 |
41.10 |
91.46 |
38.12 |
25.45 |
9.21 |
54.21 |
624.03 |
| 6 |
37.25 |
85.25 |
37.48 |
44.23 |
10.48 |
47.30 |
53.18 |
| 7 |
34.00 |
82.99 |
34.82 |
51.17 |
9.98 |
79.28 |
55.38 |
| 8 |
30.85 |
81.38 |
33.77 |
47.46 |
9.00 |
71.34 |
18.65 |
| Final |
28.61 |
75.84 |
31.42 |
44.50 |
8.45 |
65.79 |
9.40 |
All data © Richard K. Walton and Lincoln P. Brower.
We invite you to join CMBO and support
the educational and research efforts of the Monarch Monitoring
Project. 2006 should be an exciting season! Specific information
about our talks and walks as well as Monarch tagging
demonstrations is available from:
Cape May Bird Observatory
Center for Research and Education
600 Route 47 North, Cape May Court House, NJ 08201
Phone: 609.861.0700
Open Daily 9:00-4:30
www.njaudubon.org
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