01-12-15 Bird Field Note

01-12-15 Bird Field Note

January 12, 2015

Kate Stone's mid-January field note describes winter shrubby draw surveys.

Bird Field Note Winter Shrubby Draw Surveys Kate Stone 01/09/14

In the winter, we visit each shrubby draw three consecutive days. This sampling method allows us to identify which areas see repeated use by birds behaving nomadically. American Tree Sparrows outnumbered all other species (Table 1)

Similar to our fall and spring draw surveys, we saw most winter bird activity clustered in areas with woody vegetation (Figure 1). For several species, we saw repeated use of areas across the three days of our surveys, including Gray Partridges in lower Tongue Creek, American Tree Sparrows in middle Tongue Creek, and Red-Breasted Nuthatches in upper Sheep Camp.