Breeding bird monitoring: Mid-Atlantic Network 2010 summary report
Wakamiya S. 2012. Breeding bird monitoring: Mid-Atlantic Network 2010 summary report. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/MIDN/NRDS—2012/279. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
This report summarizes breeding bird monitoring data collected in 2009 and 2010 at five Mid-Atlantic Network Parks. We provide park and region-wide abundance metrics for all species, and take note of the spatial distribution of species of conservation concern identified on a continental and regional scale (for the Piedmont/Southeastern Coastal Plain region). We also provide a community-wide assessment of species composition (a “Bird Community Index” or BCI) that informs on ecosystem integrity by evaluating the relative composition of different guilds in the overall bird community. A resource brief that may be used as outreach material is also provided at the beginning of each park’s section of the report. Higher resolution versions of these documents that are suitable for printing may be downloaded from the Mid-Atlantic Network’s bird protocol website (http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/midn/ProtocolBirds.cfm). Readers should treat results as provisionary, as metrics may be confounded by variability in detection probability. A more comprehensive analysis that accounts for such variability will be included as we acquire more data.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wakamiya, Sarah
- Date of Issue
- 2012-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- APCO , BOWA , FRSP , MIDN , NRSS , RICH , VAFO
- Keywords
- Abundance, Bird Conservation Region, bird monitoring, Birds, Breeding, Monitoring, x#breedingLandbird, x#MIDN, x#reports