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: 39° 58' N, 121° 57' W
Latlng 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
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
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 no: 3628
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-05-26 12:19:40
Modified: 2020-05-26 02:19:40
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
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
Register
| Catharus guttatus | 58 | |
| Pipilo maculatus | 48 | 6.4 g |
| Regulus calendula | 32 | 6.5 g |
| Leiothlypis celata | 23 | 3.1 g |
| "Vermivora celata" | ||
| Setophaga coronata | 21 | 3.5 g |
| "Dendroica coronata" | ||
| Chamaea fasciata | 15 | 15.3 g |
| Thryomanes bewickii | 14 | 9.9 g |
| Zonotrichia atricapilla | 13 | 31.7 g |
| Vireo huttoni | 8 | 11.3 g |
| Junco hyemalis | 8 | 1.6 g |
| Baeolophus inornatus | 6 | |
| "Parus inornatus" | ||
| Psaltriparus minimus | 6 | 5.3 g |
| Setophaga nigrescens | 5 | 8.7 g |
| "Dendroica nigrescens" | ||
| Passerella iliaca | 4 | 2.0 g |
| Zonotrichia leucophrys | 3 | 2.0 g |
| Carpodacus purpureus | 3 | 23.3 g |
| Zenaida macroura | 2 | |
| Myiarchus cinerascens | 2 | 28.2 g |
| Colaptes auratus | 2 | 11.3 g |
| Sitta carolinensis | 2 | 21.0 g |
| Aphelocoma californica | 2 | |
| Leiothlypis ruficapilla | 2 | 8.3 g |
| "Vermivora ruficapilla" | ||
| Empidonax difficilis | 1 | 10.7 g |
| Passerina amoena | 1 | 16.0 g |
| Pheucticus melanocephalus | 1 | 46.1 g |
| Cyanocitta cristata | 1 | |
| Turdus migratorius | 1 | 78.5 g |
| Accipiter striatus | 1 | 9.7 g |
| Glaucidium gnoma | 1 | 3.9 g |
| Wilsonia pusilla | 1 | 2.6 g |
| Bombycilla cedrorum | 1 | 30.6 g |
| Empidonax traillii | 1 | 13.1 g |
| Carduelis psaltria | 1 | 2.8 g |
| Calypte anna | 1 | 4.5 g |