Golden-winged warbler ecology, conservation, and habitat management

253 Pages·2017·67.47 MB·English

by  Henry M. Streby

Golden-winged
Warbler Ecology,
Conservation, and
Habitat Management
STUDIES IN AVIAN BIOLOGY
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Volume 49
Studies in Avian Biology
Cooper Ornithological Society
Golden-winged
Warbler Ecology,
Conservation, and

Habitat Management
EDITED BY
Henry M. Streby
University of California
Berkeley, CA
David E. Andersen
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
David A. Buehler
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
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CONTENTS
Editors / vii 4 ∙ GENETIC INSIGHTS INTO HYBRIDIZATION 
BETWEEN GOLDEN-WINGED AND BLUE-
Contributors / ix
WINGED WARBLERS / 67
Preface / xiii
Rachel Vallender and Roger D. Bull
Part I ∙ Global Distribution and Status 5 ∙  SGPOALCDEE ANN-WD IHNAGBEIDT AWTA URSBEL OERF SB IRNE TEHDEIN G 
CENTRAL APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS / 81
1 ∙  DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTIONS AND  Mack W. Frantz, Kyle R. Aldinger,
POPULATION DECLINES OF GOLDEN- Petra B. Wood, Joseph Duchamp,
WINGED WARBLERS / 3 Timothy Nuttle, Andrew Vitz, and
Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Tom Will,
Jeffery L. Larkin
David A. Buehler,
Sara Barker Swarthout,
Wayne E. Thogmartin, 6 ∙  INFLUENCE OF PLANT SPECIES 
COMPOSITION ON GOLDEN-WINGED 
Ruth E. Bennett, and Richard B. Chandler
WARBLER FORAGING ECOLOGY IN 
NORTH-CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA / 95
2 ∙ NONBREEDING GOLDEN-WINGED  Emily C. Bellush, Joseph Duchamp,
WARBLER HABITAT: STATUS, 
CONSERVATION, AND NEEDS / 29 John L. Confer, and Jeffery L. Larkin
David I. King, Richard B. Chandler,
Curtis Smalling, Richard Trubey, 7 ∙  GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER NEST-SITE 
Raul Raudales, and Tom Will HABITAT SELECTION / 109
Theron M. Terhune II,
Kyle R. Aldinger, David A. Buehler,
Part II ∙ Breeding Grounds David J. Flaspohler, Jeffery L. Larkin,
John P. Loegering, Katie L. Percy,
Amber M. Roth, Curtis Smalling,
3 ∙ LANDSCAPE-SCALE HABITAT AND 
and Petra B. Wood
CLIMATE CORRELATES OF BREEDING 
GOLDEN-WINGED AND BLUE-WINGED 
WARBLERS / 41
8 ∙  SURVIVAL AND HABITAT USE OF 
Dolly L. Crawford, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh,
FLEDGLING GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS 
Amber M. Roth, James D. Lowe, IN THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION / 127
Sara Barker Swarthout, and Henry M. Streby, Sean M. Peterson,
Kenneth V. Rosenberg and David E. Andersen
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9 ∙  SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS OF  Part IV ∙ Synthesis and Future Directions
FULL-SEASON PRODUCTIVITY AND 
IMPLICATIONS FOR LANDSCAPE 
MANAGEMENT OF GOLDEN-WINGED  13 ∙ CONSERVATION PERSPECTIVES: 
WARBLERS IN THE WESTERN GREAT  REVIEW OF NEW SCIENCE AND PRIMARY 
LAKES REGION / 141 THREATS TO GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS / 207
Sean M. Peterson, Henry M. Streby, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh, David A. Buehler,
and David E. Andersen Sara Barker Swarthout, David I. King,
Jeffery L. Larkin, Kenneth V. Rosenberg,
10 ∙  MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS OF  Amber M. Roth, Rachel Vallender, and
BROOD DIVISION IN GOLDEN-WINGED 
Tom Will
WARBLERS / 161
Sean M. Peterson, Henry M. Streby,
14 ∙  RESEARCH ON GOLDEN-WINGED 
and David E. Andersen WARBLERS: RECENT PROGRESS AND 
CURRENT NEEDS / 217
Henry M. Streby, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh,
Part III ∙ Nonbreeding Season David A. Buehler, David E. Andersen,
and Migration Rachel Vallender, David I. King,
and Tom Will
11 ∙  CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS  Index / 229
OF GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER 
Complete Series List / 237
SOCIAL AND FORAGING 
BEHAVIORS DURING THE 
NONBREEDING SEASON / 175
Richard B. Chandler, Sharna Tolfree,
John Gerwin, Curtis Smalling,
Liliana Chavarría-Duriaux,
Georges Duriaux, and David I. King
12 ∙  GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER 
MIGRATORY CONNECTIVITY DERIVED 
FROM STABLE ISOTOPES / 193
Keith A. Hobson, Steven L. Van
Wilgenburg, Amber M. Roth,
Ruth E. Bennett, Nicholas J. Bayly,
Liliana Chavarría-Duriaux,
Gabriel J. Colorado, Pablo Elizondo,
Carlos G. Rengifo, and Jeffrey D. Ritterson
vi STUDIES IN AVIAN BIOLOGY NO. 49 Streby, Andersen, and Buehler
EDITORS
Henry M. Streby, PhD, is an Assistant Professor where he worked on population ecology of
in the Department of Environmental Sciences at shortgrass prairie raptor communities in eastern
the University of Toledo and an Adjunct Assistant Colorado. Following the completion of his PhD, he
Professor at the University of Minnesota and at the worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in
University of Tennessee. Dr. Streby completed the Colorado, where he oversaw a research program
editorial activities for this volume during his ten- focused on a variety of prairie wildlife, includ-
ure as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral ing swift fox, songbirds, raptors, pronghorn, mule
Research Fellow with the University of Tennessee deer, and bobcats, in relation to changes in land
and as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University use. During his time at the Minnesota Cooperative
of California, Berkeley. He has 15 years of experience Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Dr. Andersen led
studying and publishing extensively on the ecol- research efforts focused on population ecology of
ogy of birds and their habitats in eastern deciduous forest-nesting songbirds and raptors, American
and northern hardwood forests of North America. Woodcocks, and arctic-nesting geese and is cur-
Dr. Streby earned a BS in wildlife biology and an rently investigating questions related to migration
MS in ecology and evolutionary biology at Ohio ecology and bird response to vegetation commu-
University, and a PhD in wildlife ecology and man- nity manipulation and changing land-use patterns.
agement at the University of Minnesota within the
Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research David A. Buehler, PhD, is a Professor of wildlife
Unit. He is broadly interested in the ecology, conser- science in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and
vation, and management of migratory and resident Fisheries at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville.
birds and the complex and changing landscapes they He received a BSc and MSc in wildlife ecology
occupy throughout all stages of their life cycle. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a
PhD in wildlife science from Virginia Polytechnic
David E. Andersen, PhD, is the Leader of the U.S. Institute and State University. His research program
Geological Survey Minnesota Cooperative Fish is focused on avian population ecology and devel-
and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of oping effective conservation strategies for species of
Minnesota. He has more than 35 years of experi- conservation concern. His recent research focused
ence in research related to avian population ecol- on population viability of Golden-winged and
ogy, bird–habitat relations, and conservation of Cerulean Warblers, two of the most rapidly declin-
raptors, forest-nesting songbirds, waterfowl, and ing passerines breeding in North America. He
shorebirds. Dr. Andersen received both an MS and served as the chair of the Golden-winged Warbler
PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Working Group since its formation in 2005.
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CONTRIBUTORS
KYLE R. ALDINGER EMILY C. BELLUSH
West Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Department of Biology
Research Unit Indiana University of Pennsylvania
West Virginia University Weyandt Hall, Room 114
322 Percival Hall 975 Oakland Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506 Indiana, PA 15705
[email protected] [email protected]
DAVID E. ANDERSEN
U.S. Geological Survey RUTH E. BENNETT
Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Department of Natural Resources
Research Unit Cornell University
200 Hodson Hall 111A Fernow Hall
1980 Folwell Avenue Ithaca, NY 14853
St. Paul, MN 55108 [email protected]
[email protected]
SARA BARKER SWARTHOUT DAVID A. BUEHLER
Conservation Science Program Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries
Cornell Lab of Ornithology University of Tennessee
159 Sapsucker Woods Road Knoxville, TN 37996
Ithaca, NY 14850 [email protected]
[email protected]
NICHOLAS J. BAYLY ROGER D. BULL
SELVA: Investigación para la Conservación en el Research and Collections
Neotropico Canadian Museum of Nature
Diagonal 42A No. 20-37 1740 Pink Road
Bogotá D.C., Colombia Gatineau, QC J9J 3N7, Canada
[email protected] [email protected]
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