Sunday, November 24, 2013

Cape May Monarch Migration Monitoring

The numbers are dismal. 
Table reproduced below.
The slim hope is that a rebound is possible just as after 2004.

Table #1. CAPE MAY POINT ROAD CENSUS - 1992-2013
Week 19921993 19941995 1996 1997 1998 19992000 200120022003200420052006 2007200820092010201120122013
1 7.7 12.0 95.5 43.0 9.1 185.6 3.0 23.92.523.46.624.8 5.532.025.042.414.3 25.921.88.6316.876.95
2 14.2 13.5 213.6 26.9 4.2 65.4 54.6 10.93.342.242.814.8 3.2 21.874.423.96.07.3 143.25.88141.716.21
3 14.5 109.9 120.6 16.2 141.9 216.4 4.3 298.832.967.962.73.3 9.2 22.2132.6131.128.438.3 500.39.76171.189.17
4 15.3 152.9 143.3 22.1 78.5 226.1 93.5 413.4112.8134.370.35.4 11.7 115.5750.259.111.624.2 42.913.0236.7727.86
5 7.7 149.1 162.2 25.4 127.3 71.2 96.9 1536.853.7189.68.578.3 16.3 79.4629.764.677.287.4 49.4210.0442.1921.91
6 14.3 57.2 15.427.0 48.6 77.346.2531.418.0 53.234.2135.716.9 13.0 52.338.048.367.5 233.4261.075.225.95
7 18.9 20.5 17.036.6 49.6 65.071.320.915.1 58.520.590.36.7235.253.8262.2 63.2 4.421.390.034.0612.32
8 0.9 14.9 54.115.0 33.3 8.333.35.68.8 75.626.228.42.2 15.4 17.879.012.420.2 9.369.8294.8714.94
9* 0.0 14.6 18.136.3 11.1 4.30.07.53.6 13.75.011.32.3 3.7 7.645.74.46.0 4.913.64*9.397.42
Final11.3 66.6 93.527.4 60.1 113.447.9359.830.6 77.332.945.28.9 63.2 216.781.231.134.4 130.085.29183.1512.74
                      *week 9 is a partial week and in 2012 census route roads were closed on Oct 29 and 30 due to storm Sandy