Drivers Flat (birds)
Basic information
Sample name: Drivers Flat (birds)

Reference: S. A. Wright, M. A. Thompson, M. J. Miller, K. M. Knerl, S. L. Elms, J. C. Karpowicz, J. F. Young, and V. L. Kramer. 2000. Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), rodents, and birds in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, Placer County, California. Journal of Medical Entomology 37(6):909-918 [ER 3279]
Geography
Country: United States

State: California


County: Placer


Coordinate: 38° 58' N, 120° 57' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "on the Forest Hill Divide above the North Fork of the American River"

Environment
Habitat: temperate coniferous forest

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: vegetation is dominated by pine, fir, oak, madrone, manzanita, and deer brush

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 291 captures or sightings

Years: 1997, 1998

Days: 37

Nets or traps: 10

Sampling comments: "Wild birds were collected every other week from March 1997 through July 1998 using mist nets positioned 275 m along a footpath that approximately followed the 610-m elevation contour. Ten black nylon mist nets (2.6 by 12 m, 38-mm mesh) were opened for 4 h from 0700-1100 hours" (this presumably means on 26 + 5/12 x 26 = approximately 37 days)

Metadata
Sample number: 3628

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-05-26 12:19:40

Modified: 2020-05-26 02:19:40

Abundance distribution
34 species
12 singletons
total count 291
geometric series index: 68.3
Fisher's α: 9.981
geometric series k: 0.8842
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8987
Shannon's H: 2.7095
Good's u: 0.9589
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Catharus guttatus5830.1 g insectivore-frugivore
Pipilo maculatus486.4 g insectivore-granivore
Regulus calendula326.5 g insectivore
Leiothlypis celata23
"Vermivora celata"
Setophaga coronata21
"Dendroica coronata"
Chamaea fasciata1515.3 g
Thryomanes bewickii149.9 g
Zonotrichia atricapilla1331.7 g granivore
Vireo huttoni811.3 g insectivore
Junco hyemalis81.6 g insectivore-granivore
Baeolophus inornatus62.0 g
"Parus inornatus"
Psaltriparus minimus65.3 g insectivore-granivore
Setophaga nigrescens5
"Dendroica nigrescens"
Passerella iliaca42.0 g insectivore-granivore
Zonotrichia leucophrys32.0 g insectivore-granivore
Carpodacus purpureus323.3 g granivore
Zenaida macroura2123 g granivore-frugivore
Myiarchus cinerascens228.2 g insectivore-frugivore
Colaptes auratus211.3 g insectivore-frugivore
Sitta carolinensis221.0 g insectivore
Aphelocoma californica2 omnivore
Leiothlypis ruficapilla2
"Vermivora ruficapilla"
Empidonax difficilis110.7 g
Passerina amoena116.0 g insectivore-granivore
Pheucticus melanocephalus146.1 g insectivore-granivore
Cyanocitta cristata1 insectivore-granivore
Turdus migratorius178.5 g insectivore-frugivore
Accipiter striatus19.7 g carnivore
Glaucidium gnoma13.9 g
Wilsonia pusilla12.6 g insectivore-frugivore
Bombycilla cedrorum130.6 g insectivore-frugivore
Empidonax traillii113.1 g insectivore-frugivore
Carduelis psaltria12.8 g nectarivore
Calypte anna14.5 g