Sagehen Creek Field Station

22 Jul, 02 AM - 22 Jul, 10 AM

I have studied year-to-year variations in the breeding bird densities of willow habitats in the Rocky Mountains for several decades. Chief among the study sites there is one in Grand Teton National Park, one of the flagship bird monitoring stations in the Park. Additional and comparative sites are in Glacier and in Rocky Mountain National Parks. We measure variation in breeding birds, incidence and densities, and attempt to relate this to a) on-site variation in resources provided by willows to birds, and b) off-site variation, during migration and in overwintering sites in SW USA, Central and South America. The existing data base in the Rockies covers >40y; we seek comparative information from a Sierra Nevada site, not for the long-term trends in breeding populations (though such data would be extremely valuable) but for composition and structure of the willow habitat bird community in the Sierra.

Visit #18744 @Sagehen Creek Field Station

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Under Project # 20302 | Research

Community ecology of birds in willows habitats

faculty - University of California, Los Angeles

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