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Guidance Documents

Avoiding Osprey and Energy Infrastructure Conflicts:  Information and Resources for Utilities.  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Nebraska Field Office.  

Osprey and Energy Infrastructure Fact Sheet.  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Nebraska Field Office.  

Wind Energy and Nebraska’s Wildlife:  Avian Assessment Guidance for Wind Energy Facilities.  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Nebraska Field Office.  

Monographs

Jorgensen, J.G.  2012.  Birds of the Rainwater Basin (version 1.0). Nongame Bird Program.  

Jorgensen, J.G. 2008. 2008 update to an overview of shorebird migration in the Eastern Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. Lincoln, NE, Published by author.

Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover annual reports

Brown, M.B., J.G. Jorgensen, and L.R. Dinan. 2012. 2012 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report for the Lower Platte River, Nebraska. Joint report of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership and the Nongame Bird Program of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Lincoln, NE

Brown, M.B., J.G. Jorgensen, and L.R. Dinan. 2011. 2011 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report For the Lower Platte River, Nebraska. Joint report of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership and the Nongame Bird Program at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Lincoln, NE.

Brown, M.B., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2010. 2010 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report For the Lower Platte River, Nebraska. Joint report of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership and the Nongame Bird Program at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Lincoln, NE.

Brown, M.B., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2009. 2009 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report For the Lower Platte River, Nebraska. Joint report of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership and the Nongame Bird Program at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Lincoln, NE.

Brown, M.B., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2008. 2008 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report For the Lower Platte River, Nebraska. Joint report of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership and the Nongame Bird Program at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Lincoln, NE.

Peer-reviewed Papers

Gregory, C.J., S.J. Dinsmore, L.A. Powell, and J.G. Jorgensen.  2012.  Estimating the abundance of Long-billed Curlews in Nebraska.   Journal of Field Ornithology 83: 122-129.
 
Jorgensen, J.G., M.B. Brown, and A.J. Tyre.  2012.  Channel Width and Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Nesting Incidence on the Lower Platte River, Nebraska.  Great Plains Research 22: 59-67. 

Gregory, C.J., S.J. Dinsmore, L.A. Powell, and J.G. Jorgensen.  2011. Nest survival of Long-billed Curlew in Nebraska. Wader Study Group Bulletin. 118: 109–113.

Brown, M.B., M.E. Burbach, J. Dinan, R.J. Held, R.J. Johnson, J.G. Jorgensen, J. Lackey, J.F. Marcus, G.S. Matkin, and C.M. Thody.  2011. Nebraska’s Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership – a model for sustainable conservation of threatened and endangered species. Wader Study Group Bulletin. 118: 22–25.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2009.  Killdeer Charadrius vociferus breeding abundance and habitat use in the Eastern Rainwater Basin, Nebraska, USA.  International Wader Study Group Bulletin.

McCarty, J.P., J.G. Jorgensen, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2009.  Behavior of Buff-breasted Sandpipers (Tryngites subruficollis) during migratory stopover in agricultural fields.  PloS-ONE (4)11:e8000. doi:10.1371/journal/pone.008000.  http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008000

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2008.  Buff-breasted Sandpiper Density and Numbers During Migratory Stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.    The Condor 110: 63-69.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2007. Landscape and habitat variables affecting Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryingites subruficollis) distribution during migratory stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska, USA.  International Wader Study Group Bulletin 112: 45-51.

Jorgensen, J.G., and S.J. Dinsmore.  2001.  An assessment of the status of White-faced Ibis in the Great Plains.  North American Birds 59: 376-381. 

Thesis

Gregory, C.J.  2011.  Reproductive ecology of the Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) in Western Nebraska.  Master’s Thesis, Iowa State University.  

Reports

Dinan, L.R., and J.G. Jorgensen.  2013.  Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), and Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) abundance at Sandhills Lakes during fall migration.   Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Nongame Bird Program report, Lincoln, NE.

Jorgensen, J.G., and L.R. Dinan. 2012. 2012 Bald Eagle Nesting Report.  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Nongame Bird Program report, Lincoln, NE.

Jorgensen, J.G., M.A. Brogie, W.R. Silcock, L.R. Dinan and G. Steinaur.  2012.   2012 Indian Cave State Park and Ponca State Park Breeding Bird Monitoring.  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Nongame Bird Program report, Lincoln, NE.  

Jorgensen, J.G., S.K. Wilson, J.J. Dinan, S.E. Rehme, S.E. Steckler, and M.J. Panella.  2010.  A review of modern Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) nesting records and breeding status in Nebraska.  Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Lincoln, NE. 

McCarty, J.P., L.L. Wolfenbarger, and J.G. Jorgensen.  2010.  Stopover ecology of high-priority shorebirds in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.  Nebraska State Wildlife Grant T-43, final report.   University of Nebraska-Omaha and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.    

Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen.  2006.  Henslow Sparrow status in Nebraska and a preliminary survey of southeast Nebraska grassland habitat.   Report of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Nongame Bird Program, Lincoln, NE. 

Educational

Rehme, S., and J.G. Jorgensen.  2007.  Nebraska’s at-risk shorebirds (poster).  Nongame Bird Program, Lincoln, NE.