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Preserve Breeding Bird Study 2013-2014

By Roma Lenehan.
See also the published short summary in the Friends Newsletter PRESERVE!, Vol. 14, # 1, WInter 2014-15
To read the entire report, click Preserve Breeding Bird Study Summary 2013-2014 and
a short final summary of the years 2013-2015 in the PRESERVE!, Vol. 14, # 1, Winter 2015-2016

The purpose of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Breeding Bird and Habitat Study is to identify the birds likely to breed and their habitat preferences in the Preserve from 2013 to 2015. The results will be compared with the baseline 2000 to 2002 results from the Breeding Bird and Habitat Study (Fall 2001 FCNA News, pages 2 and 5) to see if there have been shifts in breeding birds over the last decade due to habitat change or bird population changes. The project will determine the bird species in the various areas of the Preserve, their approximate numbers, and confirm the breeding of each species, using the methods of the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas.

The breeding birds of the Preserve have changed little between 2000-2002 and 2013-2015. Common birds stayed common and rare birds remained rare. Despite restoration, neither grassland nor savanna bird diversity has increased. The number and species diversity of marsh birds have declined, possibly due to declining habitat quality in the Class of 1918 Marsh.

The observations are grouped in two charts.
Chart 1. Habitat and Abundance of Lakeshore Nature Preserve
Breeding Birds in 2013 and 2104 (click for pdf)
and
Chart 2. Habitat Groupings of Birds that Nest in the CNA
in 2000, 2001, 2002 (click for pdf)
These charts are also reproduced below. Click to enlarge.