NCCN Inventory Landbirds Olympic National Park
Kuntz RC. NCCN Inventory Landbirds Olympic National Park. 2002-2003. National Park Service
Landbird inventory within Olympic National Park, 2002-2003. In 2002 The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) collaborated with personnel at Olympic National Park to initiate a two-year, park-wide, inventory of landbirds. The broad goals of the inventory are to elucidate spatial patterns of abundance across the park for a large suite of species, and to produce information that will assist park managers and cooperators in designing the park‘s long-term landbird monitoring program. During our two field seasons, we counted 10,017 individual birds during 1,510 point counts conducted along 209 transects. Starting points for all these transects lay within a 1.5 km accessibility buffer around roads and trails, but otherwise the transects were fairly well distributed across the park. We documented 120 bird species in the park during the field season. Eighty eight of these were detected during at least one point count, while the remaining 32 were recorded only during our early season training session, or at other times during the season when observers were not conducting point counts. We also conducted detailed habitat assessments at each of the 1,510 survey points
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Kuntz, Robert
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Abundance, Assessment, Avifauna, Birds, Density, Detectability, distance 4.0, Habitat, Inventory, Landbird, North Coast and Cascades Network, Olympic National Park, Point Count, Presence, Transect
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds
Program
Products
- Landbird inventory for Olympic National Park (2002-2003)
- Landbird Inventory for Olympic National Park tabular data