An Inventory of Bird Species Occurring Within theSan Antonio Missions National Historical Park
Scully MJ. 2006. An Inventory of Bird Species Occurring Within theSan Antonio Missions National Historical Park. M Scully
In 2003 the San Antonio Audubon Society entered into a contract with the National Park Service to identify habitat areas and to conduct a bird survey sufficient to detect and record 90% of the bird species occurring on the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park properties in Bexar and Wilson counties, Texas. Five general habitat types were identified and twenty-five survey points were established and data collected in accordance with the sampling protocols set forth by Pietz et. al. (2002). The sampling was performed by experienced bird watchers donating their labor to the San Antonio Audubon Society. Data collection began in January of 2004 and has been collected on a bimonthly basis until the present (June 2006). A total of 196 bird species have been detected on the Missions Property to date, 146 of these having been observed during a five minute point count. Specific to the five-minute surveys conducted from survey points, during fifteen separate surveys conducted thus far, 4,785 observations have been recorded of an estimated 12,958 individual birds. None of the 196 species found are currently on the Federal or State of Texas endangered and threatened species lists. Three species detected, the Ringed Kingfisher (Ceryle torquata), Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas) and the Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) are listed on the San Antonio Audubon checklist as rare vagrants to this area.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Scully, Michael
- Date of Issue
- 2006
- Publisher
- M Scully
- Units
- GULN , SAAN
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Abundance (Biodiversity), Bird Inventory, Birds, Distribution (Biodiversity), Inventory, Observations, Presence (Biodiversity), SAAN, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, Taxa Links To Datasets