SDNHM: Post-fire Studies: Responses of Birds to the Cedar Fire in Cleveland National Forest Winter 2005–06 to Winter 2006

[BRCC San Diego Natural History Museum: Herpetology Department]

Responses of Birds to the Cedar Fire in Cleveland National Forest Winter 2005–06 to Winter 2006–07

Trend within burned area	No preference for burned or unburned	Prefers burned	Prefers unburned	Preference unclear
Decreasing	Hermit Thrush	Cedar Waxwing Rock Wren House Wren Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Savannah Sparrow	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Chipping Sparrow Lark Sparrow
Increasing	Dark-eyed Junco	Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird House Wren American Robin Lesser Goldfinch	Western Scrub Jay Wrentit	Band-tailed Pigeon
Flat	Red-tailed Hawk Northern Flicker American Crow Common Raven Bewick’s Wren Yellow-rumped Warbler	*White-throated Swift* *Loggerhead Shrike* House Finch *Rufous-crowned Sparrow* California Towhee	Nuttall’s Woodpecker California Thrasher Oak Titmouse Fox Sparrow Spotted Towhee	[many species whose numbers were too few for analysis]
Absent			Mountain Quail Hutton’s Vireo Bushtit

Not bold: Species whose pattern of change along the burned routes did not differ significantly from their pattern along the unburned route. Though these species may have responded positively (column 2) or negatively (column 3) to the fire, their variations since the fire have not been affected clearly by postfire succession.

Bold: Species whose pattern of change along the burned routes differed significantly from their pattern along the unburned route. Though these species may be about equally abundant in burned and unburned areas (column 1), their variations since the fire have been affected clearly by postfire succession.

Bold italic: Species whose pattern of change along the burned routes differed significantly from their pattern along the unburned routes because they were absent along the unburned routes or their numbers along the unburned routes were so low no comparison could be made.

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