The USFWS division of migratory bird management and the canadian wildlife service of environment and climate change canada have jointly managed the american woodcock singing ground survey since 1968

This survey provides measures of the status and trends of american woodcock populations to inform biologically sound conservation and management actions in both countries. The canadian wildlife service has provided over $100,000 in funding to build a woodcock survey web and mobile application that is used by state and provincial participants to enter survey data on the naturecounts website hosted by the canadian non-profit organization birds canada. The purpose of this award is to improve user experience for the application, and to incorporate data validation processes for staff in the branch of monitoring and data management. The deliverables and expected outcomes are enhancements to the data entry pages to improve data quality and reduce user error, and allow for project registration via the mobile application. Birds canada will work with canadian wildlife service and fish and wildlife service staff to review developed enhancements. Without these enhancements, there is increased risk of users not understanding the correct procedures for entering data, resulting in data quality errors. Without the ability to validate data quality within the application, the survey coordinator will have to check data entries manually, which will result in delays in processing the data and making IT available in time for the regulations setting process of woodcock harvest management.