Bird Community Monitoring at Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota: 2009 Status Report
Peitz, DG. 2010. Bird Community Monitoring at Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota: 2009 Status Report. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/HTLN/NRDS—2010/045. National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado
Bird surveys and habitat assessment work were initiated at Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota in 2009, to assist the park in assessing the ecological integrity of habitat on the monument through time. Thirty-six of the 40 bird species are permanent or summer residents to the area (Stokes and Stokes 1996). Therefore, these 36 birds have some value in characterizing the breeding bird communities of PIPE. With eight of the 36 breeding species grassland obligates, it can be reasonably assumed that the ecological integrity of the grassland habitat on the monument is quite good. Current efforts to restore and maintain the grasslands at PIPE should provide a diversity of habitats necessary to support the four species of continental importance observed in the survey.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Peitz,, David
- Date of Issue
- 2010-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center
- Units
- HTLN , NRSS , PIPE
- Keywords
- HTLN Breeding Birds Brief, HTLN Breeding Birds Monitoring