Kauaʻi record · KCA-INT-0026
Waterbird predator control
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About Waterbird predator control
Reduce nest, chick and adult mortality of native waterbirds
Names and classification
- Record type
- intervention
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Recorded state
- Available, active, proposed or context-dependent
Conservation interventions
- Action definition
- Reduce nest, chick and adult mortality of native waterbirds
- Mechanism of action
- Targeted trapping/removal/exclusion of invasive mammalian predators around nesting/foraging areas
- Prerequisites
- Monitoring; legal methods; sustained effort; nesting-location knowledge
- Implementation context
- Wetlands and refuges with sensitive waterbird populations
- Expected outcomes
- Higher nesting success and adult survival
- Monitoring design
- Predator activity; nest survival; fledging success; recolonization
- Unintended consequences
- Non-target capture risk and rapid recolonization if effort lapses
- Implementation limits
- Implementation status, cost and efficacy must be tied to a dated place/program record.
Sources and further reading
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