Volunteers

Regional Coordinators

These volunteers were the backbone of the atlas project and integral to the management and success of data collection over five field seasons. The Regional Coordinators deserve recognition for their tremendous role as leaders by coordinating field-surveys, recruiting volunteers, and seemingly endless data review. Coordinators are listed according to the region they administered (mapped in Fig. 3 of Methods section).

List of Atlas Participants

This project was possible only with the enthusiasm and skills of the over 700 citizen scientists dedicated their time, effort, and personal resources to survey thousands of squares for the atlas project. All who contributed breeding bird records are listed, unless they requested otherwise. Please visit this page for a few of the statistics concerning each atlasser's activity. The atlas team would like to say a huge thank you to everyone whose name appears in the table, irrespective of the amount of data collected. We also greatly appreciate those participants who did not collect data but who assisted in remote expeditions, transportation, logistics, note taking and other activities that facilitated the tremendous accomplishment of completing surveys.

Logistical Support

In addition to those who collected data, volunteers participated in numerous other ways including assisting in promotional activities, events and training workshops; transporting people and materials; lending canoes and other equipment; and serving as paddlers, guides, or bear guards on remote expeditions. We are indebted to those white-water guides and experts including Jack Dubois, Denis Funk, Diana Komejan, Ian Pineau, Luke Stephenson, Don Tyerman, and Rick Wilson; boat drivers including Kevin Ault and David Wright; pilots including Doug Webber and Vern Guttman; lodge owners and staff (see Sponsors section), and the outstanding contributions of many employees of Manitoba Sustainable Development, Parks Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, and the staff of the MV Namao and the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium, without whom many remote expeditions would have been impossible. We deeply thank the band councils and citizens of Animoziibing (Lake Manitoba), Azaadiwiziibing (Poplar River), Cankagha Otinta(Birdtail Sioux), Dahlu T’ua (Lac Brochet), Dibitineyaziibing (Rolling River), Gaa-biskigamaag (Swan Lake), Kinosawi Sipi (Norway House), Kisematawa (Shamattawa), Kistiganwacheeng (Garden Hill), Manto Sakikan (Gods Lake), Manto Sipi (Gods River), Memewiziibing (Berens River), Mishi-baawitigong (Little Grand Rapids), Miskoziibing (Bloodvein), Opaskwayak (OCN: Opaskwayak Cree Nation), Pimicikamak (Cross Lake), Tes-He-Olie Twe (Tadoule Lake), and Wewezhigaabawing (Waywayseecappo) for their generosity and support. Many others individuals also provided invaluable assistance and logistical support including Pierre Barnes, Ron and Lorna Coley, Derrick Hilliker, Guy and Alice Newman, Mike Reimer, and Charlie Schweder. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the late Kim Monson, who meticulously dried, prepared, wrapped, and packed food in barrels (in order of consumption) for many expeditions, always with a detailed menu and instructions, and always having carefully pre-counted calories and ensuring that any dietary restrictions of individual paddlers were met. The Kim Monson Bursary Fund was recently established to honour Kim’s outstanding legacy. Many of these individuals also contributed data and their names appear in the list of participants above.

Photographers

Individual photographers are credited below their photographs. Photos are copyright protected. Thank you to all the talented photographers who submitted photos to be considered for inclusion in this publication, as well as those who submitted photos for the atlas newsletter, presentations, workshops and other outreach and promotional activities. We especially thank Garry Budyk for his indefatigable efforts in compiling, selecting and photo editing for the species accounts.

We have made every effort to acknowledge and include the names of all contributors and project supporters. Please accept our sincere apologies for any errors or if any names have been inadvertently omitted, and notify us immediately at cartuso@bsc-eoc.org so that corrections can be made to the website and to other materials.