Yakutat
Basic information
Sample name: Yakutat

Reference: B. A. Andres, B. T. Browne, and D. L. Brann. 2005. Composition, abundance, and timing of post-breeding migrant landbirds at Yakutat, Alaska. Wilson Bulletin 117(3):270-279 [ER 781]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Alaska


Coordinate: 59° 30' N, 139° 40' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "1.6 km west of the Yakutat airport"

Environment
Habitat: boreal forest/taiga

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 12.6

CMT: -2.5

MAP: 4471.0

Habitat comments: "primarily open (65%) and vegetated by bryophytes, grasses, sedges, forbs, and sweetgale (Myrica gale); patches of willows (Salix spp.) and solitary Sitka spruces (Picea sitchensis) were interspersed throughout"
climate data based on station 70361 (Yakutat)

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sampling methods: mist nets

Sample size: 13446 individuals

Years: 1994 - 1999

Net or trap nights: 3363

Sampling comments: 23,538 net hours with nets being operated for seven hours in all years but one, so there were about 3363 net days; number of nets ranged from 10 to 15 depending on the year

Metadata
Sample number: 1126

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-08-29 22:15:49

Modified: 2014-08-29 12:15:49

Abundance distribution
31 species
1 singleton
total count 13446
geometric series index: 33.1
Fisher's α: 3.793
geometric series k: 0.7746
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9081
Shannon's H: 2.6731
Good's u: 0.9999
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Empidonax alnorum5012.7 g insectivore
Regulus calendula10696.5 g insectivore
Catharus guttatus201630.1 g insectivore-frugivore
Turdus migratorius1278.5 g insectivore-frugivore
Leiothlypis celata2128
"Vermivora celata"
Setophaga petechia803
"Dendroica petechia"
Setophaga coronata456
"Dendroica coronata"
Setophaga townsendi16 insectivore
"Dendroica townsendi"
Wilsonia pusilla5592.6 g insectivore-frugivore
Passerculus sandwichensis5291.7 g insectivore
Melospiza lincolnii187116.6 g insectivore-granivore
Zonotrichia leucophrys862.0 g insectivore-granivore
Sitta canadensis819.8 g insectivore
Certhia americana268.1 g insectivore
Troglodytes pacificus97
"Troglodytes troglodytes"
Ixoreus naevius1068.5 g
Spizella arborea2518.6 g
Passerella iliaca8982.0 g insectivore-granivore
Melospiza melodia401.6 g insectivore-granivore
Zonotrichia atricapilla55231.7 g granivore
Junco hyemalis5481.6 g insectivore-granivore
Carduelis flammea44413.0 g
Picoides pubescens72.8 g insectivore
Picoides villosus12.7 g insectivore
Cyanocitta stelleri7
Poecile atricapillus1410.8 g
Poecile rufescens2189.7 g
Regulus satrapa3666.3 g insectivore
Loxia curvirostra43.4 g
Loxia leucoptera1425.5 g granivore
Carduelis pinus27512.7 g granivore