Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Saguaro ... - USGS
Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Saguaro ... - USGS
Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Saguaro ... - USGS
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Appendix G. Mean frequency <strong>of</strong> detection <strong>of</strong> birds, by community type <strong>and</strong> transect, recorded during repeatvisit<br />
VCP surveys, <strong>Saguaro</strong> National Park, Rincon Mountain District, 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002. “Total transects” indicates<br />
in how many transects (all commununities; maximum value is 23) we recorded at least one individual during surveys.<br />
Frequency <strong>of</strong> detections includes all birds recorded including flyovers, birds seen >75 m from stations, <strong>and</strong> birds<br />
recorded outside <strong>of</strong> 8-minute-count periods.<br />
Species<br />
Total<br />
transects<br />
observed<br />
Lower<br />
Rincon<br />
Creek<br />
Upper<br />
Rincon<br />
Creek<br />
146<br />
Riparian Sonoran Desertscrub<br />
Box<br />
Canyon<br />
Loma<br />
Verde<br />
Wash 112 115 121 130 138 139<br />
mallard 1 0.05<br />
wild turkey 1<br />
scaled quail 1<br />
Gambel’s quail 13 2.03 0.51 1.22 1.09 0.69 1.81 0.63 0.25 0.44 0.13<br />
Montezuma quail 6 0.06<br />
turkey vulture 12 0.20 0.16 0.33 0.61 0.06 0.19 0.06 0.06<br />
sharp-shinned hawk 1 0.01<br />
Cooper’s hawk 4 0.14 0.12 0.02 0.04<br />
northern goshawk 2<br />
gray hawk 1 0.05<br />
zone-tailed hawk 3 0.02 0.02<br />
red-tailed hawk 7 0.14 0.06<br />
golden eagle 3 0.13<br />
American kestrel 7 0.03 0.08 0.02 0.06 0.06 0.06<br />
peregrine falcon 3<br />
rock pigeon 1 0.05<br />
b<strong>and</strong>-tailed pigeon 5 0.06<br />
white-winged dove 18 1.62 1.10 2.49 2.87 1.63 2.19 1.63 2.25 2.31 1.19<br />
mourning dove 16 1.47 1.08 1.73 3.57 1.19 2.25 1.56 2.00 1.69 2.06<br />
common ground-dove 2 0.05 0.14<br />
yellow-billed cuckoo 1 0.06<br />
greater roadrunner 4 0.02 0.09<br />
whiskered screech-owl 1<br />
great horned owl 6 0.10 0.17 0.06 0.06<br />
northern pygmy-owl 2<br />
lesser nighthawk 1 0.02<br />
common poorwill 2<br />
whip-poor-will 2<br />
white-throated swift 14 0.01 0.14 0.06 0.13 0.19 0.25 0.50 0.06<br />
broad-billed hummingbird 3 0.09 0.18 0.24<br />
magnificent hummingbird 2<br />
black-chinned hummingbird 13 0.20 0.37 0.16 0.09 0.13 0.06 0.06 0.19<br />
Anna’s hummingbird 8 0.13 0.06<br />
Costa’s hummingbird 7 0.01 0.08 0.13 0.13 0.06<br />
broad-tailed hummingbird 10 0.01 0.04 0.03<br />
rufous hummingbird 2 0.02 0.06<br />
elegant trogon 1<br />
belted kingfisher 1 0.01<br />
acorn woodpecker 9<br />
gila woodpecker 12 1.30 0.37 1.56 1.74 1.69 2.31 0.31 1.13 0.75 2.13<br />
ladder-backed woodpecker 14 0.44 0.24 0.33 0.48 0.25 0.19 0.50 0.19 0.13 0.38<br />
hairy woodpecker 4<br />
Arizona woodpecker 5<br />
northern flicker 10 0.02 0.02<br />
gilded flicker 10 0.06 0.04 0.19 0.13 0.19 0.44 0.44 0.19 0.06 0.81<br />
northern beardless-tyrannulet 4 0.02 0.12 0.19 0.06<br />
greater pewee 5<br />
western wood-pewee 11 0.03 0.02 0.06<br />
Hammond’s flycatcher 2 0.13<br />
gray flycatcher 3 0.05 0.06 0.13<br />
dusky flycatcher 1 0.06