Landbird inventory for Olympic National Park (2002-2003)
Siegel RB, Wilkerson RL, Hall S. 2009. Landbird inventory for Olympic National Park (2002-2003). Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/NCCN/NRTR—2009/159. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The National Park Service is charged with managing park natural resources and preventing their loss or impairment. NPS established the Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring Program to provide funding and technical support to help park units collect scientifically credible ecological resource information and to develop or improve field and analytical monitoring techniques to aid park managers in protecting their natural resources. As a first step, 5-year inventories were initiated in the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) to gather core sets of data describing park vascular plants and vertebrate resources. In 2002 Olympic National (OLYM) and The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) initiated a two-year, park-wide, inventory of landbirds to elucidate spatial patterns of abundance across the park for a large suite of species, and to produce information to assist park managers and cooperators in designing a long-term landbird monitoring program. During the two field seasons, 1,510 point counts were conducted along 209 transects and 120 bird species were documented. Detailed habitat assessments were also conducted at each of the survey points. Habitat-specific density estimates, unadjusted for differences in detectability, are presencted for all 88 species recorded during point counts.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Siegel, Rodney; Wilkerson, Robert; Hall, Shelley
- Date of Issue
- 2009-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- NRSS , OLYM
- Keywords
- Abundance, Assessment, Avifauna, Biodiversity, Bird, Birds, Density, Detectability, distance 4.0, Habitat, Inventory, Landbird, landbird inventory, Management, Monitoring, North Coast and Cascades Network, Olympic National Park, Point Count, Presence, Transect, Vegetation, Wildlife
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds