SDNHM: Post-fire Studies: Responses of Birds to the Pines Fire in the Breeding Season, April 2003

[BRCC San Diego Natural History Museum: Herpetology Department]

Responses of Birds to the Pines Fire in the Breeding Season, April 2003–July 2007

Trend within burned area	No preference for burned or unburned	Prefers burned	Prefers unburned	Preference unclear
Increasing	Wild Turkey Brown-headed Cowbird	California Quail White-throated Swift Sage Sparrow	Greater Roadrunner Western Wood Pewee Steller’s Jay Dark-eyed Junco Scott’s Oriole
Increased, then flat	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	flat for 3 years Red-tailed Hawk Bullock’s Oriole flat for 2 years Red-shouldered Hawk Phainopepla	flat for 4 years Western Bluebird White-breasted Nuthatch Cactus Wren flat for 3 years Acorn Woodpecker California Thrasher Violet-green Swallow flat for 2 years Western Scrub Jay Mountain Chickadee Bushtit Wrentit	flat for 3 years Bell’s Vireo Verdin flat for 2 years
Increased, then decreased	California Towhee Black-headed Grosbeak Brewer’s Blackbird	American Kestrel Mountain Quail Costa’s Hummingbird Anna’s Hummingbird Loggerhead Shrike European Starling Rock Wren House Wren Lesser Goldfinch Black-chinned Sparrow Rufous-crowned Sparrow Spotted Towhee	Band-tailed Pigeon Bewick’s Wren Black-throated Sparrow	White-tailed Kite Black Phoebe House Sparrow Song Sparrow Yellow-breasted Chat Western Meadowlark
Decreasing	Say’s Phoebe	Mourning Dove American Crow N. Mockingbird		Horned Lark
Decreased, then increased		Common Raven	House Finch	Red-winged Blackbird
Zigzag (down-up-down)	Lawrence’s Goldfinch	Western Kingbird Lazuli Bunting	Oak Titmouse
Zigzag (up-down-up)			Hairy Woodpecker
Flat	Turkey Vulture Cooper’s Hawk Ash-throated Flycatcher	Nuttall’s Woodpecker Lark Sparrow Blue Grosbeak	Ladder-backed Woodpecker Flicker	Common Yellowthroat Summer Tanager
Too few for trend to be assessed			Hutton’s Vireo American Robin Pygmy Nuthatch

Bold: Pattern of change in burned area significantly different from that in unburned.

Bold italic: Pattern of change in burned area differs from that in unburned because numbers in unburned area too low for valid statistical comparison.

Not bold: Pattern of change in burned area not significantly different from that in unburned, or comparison not appropriate because of habitat differences (“preference unclear” category).

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