Sierra Nevada Network Bird Monitoring
Haultain S, Siegel R, Wilkerson B. Sierra Nevada Network Bird Monitoring. 2010. National Park Service
The primary goal of long-term bird monitoring in the Sierra Nevada Network parks (Yosemite National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and Devils Postpile National Monument) is to assess park-wide and network-wide bird population trends by monitoring population densities across the parks’ diverse habitats and broad habitat gradients. Results may inform future decisions on important management issues, including fire management, meadow restoration, the effects of introduced species, visitor impacts, and even the bolstering of resistance and resilience to climate change. Monitoring objectives are to: 1) Detect trends in the density of bird species that are monitored well by point counts, in accessible areas during the breeding season, and 2) Track changes in breeding-season distribution of bird species throughout accessible areas of SIEN parks. Field monitoring began in 2011.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Haultain, Sylvia; Siegel, Rodney; Wilkerson, Bob
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- DEPO , SEKI , SIEN , YOSE
- Keywords
- birds; landbirds; long-term monitoring; bird density; point counts; transects; stratified sampling; Devils Postpile National Monument; Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks; Yosemite National Park; Sierra Nevada
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds
Program
Products
- Avifauna of Sierra Nevada Network parks: Assessing distribution, abundance, stressors, and conservation opportunities for 145 bird species
- Avifauna of Sierra Nevada Network parks: Assessing distribution, abundance, stressors, and conservation opportunities for 145 bird species (appendix a - species accounts)
- Monitoring birds in Sierra Nevada Network parks
- Project dataset for assessing trends and vulnerabilities in the mutualism between whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Clark’s nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) in the Sierra region
- Assessing trends and vulnerabilities in the mutualism between whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Clark’s nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) in national parks of the Sierra-Cascade region
- Is the Fate of Whitebark Pine in the Beak of Clark's Nutcracker?
- Bird Monitoring Protocol for National Parks in the Sierra Nevada Network
- Sierra Nevada Network Landbird Monitoring Data Package, 2011-2024
- Bird Monitoring Protocol for National Parks in the Sierra Nevada Network: Standard Operating Procedures
- Landbird population trends in parks of the Sierra Nevada Network: 2011–2019 synthesis
- Bird population trends in the Sierra Nevada Network, 2011-2019
- Sierra Nevada Network bird monitoring: 2011 annual report
- Monitoring birds in Sierra Nevada Network Parks
- Sierra Nevada Network Bird Monitoring Site Locations
- A Giant Loss: Losing sequoias could be a blow to Sierra Nevada birds
- Bird monitoring resource brief
- Bird monitoring resource brief