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- Title
STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF FALL MIGRATION STOPOVER BY SIX PASSERINE SPECIES IN AN INLAND PITCH PINE-SCRUB OAK BARREN.
- Authors
KIRCHMAN, JEREMY J.; RALSTON, JOEL; GIFFORD, NEIL A.
- Abstract
We conducted mist-net surveys of migrating songbirds during fall migration 2007-2009 on the 1,300-ha Albany Pine Bush Preserve (APBP), a fire-managed inland pitch pine-scrub oak (Pinus rigida-Quercus spp.) barren in east-central New York. We banded 244 migrating passerines from 32 non-resident species in 8,610 net/m/hr documenting use of northeastern pine barrens as stopover sites for passerines with diverse breeding ecologies. We estimated the breeding site origin of six species (a kinglet, four warblers, and a sparrow) using stable hydrogen isotope measurements from flight feathers. There was a broad range of isotope ratios within each species indicating a large catchment area extending several hundred kilometers north and west of the stopover site. Over half the birds originated >750 km from the APBP. We found no evidence for geographical structure of the timing of migration through APBP; slopes of regression lines for capture date versus hydrogen isotope ratio from feathers (δDf were not statistically different from zero. This contrasts with previous isotope research that reports both leapfrog and chain migration patterns by different warbler species at stopover sites in the western United States.
- Subjects
ALBANY Pine Bush Preserve (Albany, N.Y.); NEW York (State); SONGBIRDS; PASSERIFORMES; OAK; NATURE reserves
- Publication
Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2011, Vol 123, Issue 3, p548
- ISSN
1559-4491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1676/10-174.1