Northern Colorado Plateau Network landbird monitoring report 2024
Schmidt T, Roberts S, Tymkiw E, Shriver G. 2024. Northern Colorado Plateau Network landbird monitoring report 2024. Science Report. NPS/SR—2024/228. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. https://doi.org/10.36967/2306877
In 2024, the University of Delaware, in cooperation with the National Park Service, completed the nineteenth year of a habitat-based landbird monitoring program in park units of the Northern Colorado Plateau Network. This program is designed to provide rigorous population trend data for most diurnal, regularly occurring breeding landbird species throughout the network. Using data from 2005 to 2024, density trends were estimated for 61 species in at least one of three habitats surveyed: low-elevation riparian, pinyon-juniper, and sage shrubland. Eighteen of these trends were significant, with seven negative trends and eleven positive trends. This population information is a useful decision-making tool for land managers and supports the National Park Service’s goal of long-term monitoring of biological indicators for network parks.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Schmidt, Taylor; Roberts, Samuel; Tymkiw, Elizabeth; Shriver, Greg
- Date of Issue
- 2024-12
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.36967/2306877
- Units
- ARCH , BLCA , BRCA , CANY , CARE , CEBR , COLM , CURE , DINO , FOBU , GOSP , HOVE , NABR , NCPN , NRSS , PISP , TICA , ZION
- Keywords
- Animal studies, bird population trends, birds, distance sampling, inventory and monitoring, low-elevation riparian, monitoring, National Park Service, NCPN Landbird Monitoring, Northern Colorado Plateau Network, pinyon-juniper, sagebrush shrubland
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds , NPS.gov Subject Site: Birds & Birding