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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>FORD, R.G.
2006.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Using beached bird
monitoring data for seabird damage assessment: the importance of search
interval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span><i>Marine Ornithology</i></span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'> 34: 91-98.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>An important
rationale for beached bird monitoring programs is that they provide data that
are useful in assessing oil spill injuries to seabirds.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>A common application of these data has
been to help measure the extent to which background carcass deposition rates
are elevated by an oil spill incident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>Ideally, monitoring data can be used to establish a baseline of carcass
deposition which, when subtracted from the deposition rate observed during a
spill response, provides an estimate of the number of bird recoveries
attributable to the oil spill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</span>However, beach monitoring surveys are generally much less frequent than
oil spill response surveys, resulting in much higher estimates of the
deposition rate per survey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The
usefulness of beach monitoring data in oil spill damage assessment could be
increased by making the search protocols of monitoring programs and oil spill
response agencies more directly comparable.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp; </span>This entails conducting some searches at closely spaced
intervals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>More frequent visits to
the same beach would also make possible the estimation of carcass persistence
rates and searcher efficiency rates, which would be useful for both oil spill
damage assessment and interpreting beached bird monitoring data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Key words:
beached bird surveys, monitoring programs, oil spill response, search
intervals, carcass persistence, search efficiency, NRDA, seabird damage
assessment, background deposition<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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