North Coast and Cascades Network landbird monitoring: Report for the 2009 field season
Wilkerson RL, Siegel RB, Kuntz RC. 2010. North Coast and Cascades Network landbird monitoring: Report for the 2009 field season. Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/NCCN/NRTR—2010/392. National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado
In 2009 we completed the third year of full implementation for the landbird monitoring project in the North Coast Cascades Network (NCCN). The NCCN landbird monitoring protocol requires annual survey effort consisting of an annual panel (34 transects distributed among Mount Rainier National Park [MORA], North Cascades National Park Service Complex [NOCA], and Olympic National Park [OLYM]) plus one of five alternating panels (an additional 34 transects distributed throughout MORA, NOCA, and OLYM) and the completion of a grid of survey points at either of the smaller parks—San Juan Island National Historical Park (SAJH) or Lewis and Clark National Historical Park (LEWI). SAJH and LEWI are to be surveyed in alternating years. In 2009 we surveyed the annual panel and the third alternating panel in the large parks, along with the point grid in San Juan Island National Historical Park. We conducted 960 point counts at survey stations located along 68 transects in the three large parks—including all transects in the annual panel and the third alternating panel. We detected 137 bird species in the three large parks, 79 of which were detected during one or more point counts. The remaining 58 species were recorded by our crew as incidental detections. For 57 species (all species detected at least 15 times on annual-panel transects between 2005 and 2009), we present the total number of detections on annual-panel transects in each park during the 2005-2009 field seasons. These detection totals have not been adjusted for differences in survey effort or potential differences in detectability of birds between years; such adjustments will be made in conjunction with trend analyses in our five-year report. At SAJH, we conducted 54 point counts, including 38 point counts at American Camp and 16 point counts at British Camp. Our field crew detected 75 species while at SAJH, 61 of which were detected during point counts. We present the number of detections, and the number of points with detections, for each species detected during point counts at SAJH.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wilkerson, Robert; Siegel, Rodney; Kuntz, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 2010-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center
- Units
- MORA , NOCA , NRSS , OLYM , SAJH
- Keywords
- Abundance, alternating panel, annual panel, annual report, Avian, Biology, Bird, Density, Detectability, Distribution, landbird monitoring, Monitoring, Mount Rainier National Park, NCCN, North Cascades National Park, North Coast and Cascades Network, Observation, Olympic National Park, Point Count, Presence, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Transect, Trend