Post-fledging habitat use in a declining songbird.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fledglings of many mature forest-dependent Neotropical songbirds move from mature forest habitats into areas of thick vegetation such as regenerating clearcuts. The Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea), a Neotropical migratory songbird, is a species of conservation concern across its range and it is listed as endangered in Indiana. This species has declined faster than any other species of wood-warbler in North America. Most prior research on Cerulean Warblers has examined the breeding biology, but there are no data on habitat use by fledgling Cerulean Warblers. Our research aimed to determine where fledgling Cerulean Warblers dispersed after they left their nest, but before they migrated to their wintering grounds.

Methods

Since 2007, Cerulean Warbler bree

SUBMITTER: Delancey CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718152 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature