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Kentucky Warbler Kentucky Library - Serials Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Kentucky Warbler Kentucky Library - Serials 5-2011 Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 87, no. 2) Kentucky Library Research Collections Western Kentucky University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ky_warbler Part of the Ornithology Commons Recommended Citation Kentucky Library Research Collections, "Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 87, no. 2)" (2011). Kentucky Warbler. Paper 346. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ky_warbler/346 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kentucky Warbler by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Kentucky Warbler (Published by Kentucky Ornithological Society) VOL. 87 MAY 2011 NO. 2 IN THIS ISSUE IN MEMORIAM: JAMES W. HANCOCK ....................................................................... 47 COMPARISON OF THE NEOTROPICAL MIGRANT BREEDING BIRD COMMUN- ITIES OF THE PRESERVE AND THE RECREATION AREA OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON STATE PARK, 2004–2007, Micah W. Perkins ......................................... 47 WINTER SEASON 2010–2011, Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr., and Lee McNeely .................. 56 THE KENTUCKY ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY SPRING 2011 MEETING, John Brunjes, Recording Secretary ..............................................................................67 BOOK REVIEW, The Crossley ID Guide, Carol Besse .................................................... 69 NEWS AND VIEWS ..........................................................................................................71 46 THE KENTUCKY WARBLER Vol. 87 THE KENTUCKY ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY President............................................................................................. Scott Marsh, Lexington Vice-President.....................................................................................Carol Besse, Louisville Corresponding Secretary ..................................................................Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr. 8207 Old Westport Road, Louisville, KY 40222-3913 Treasurer ............................................................................................................ Lee McNeely P.O. Box 463, Burlington, KY 41005 Recording Secretary ........................................................................... John Brunjes, Frankfort Councillors: Don Martin, Independence ........................................................2009–2011 Shawchyi Vorisek, Frankfort......................................................2009–2011 Mark Bennett, Russellville .........................................................2010–2012 Mary Yandell, Louisville ...........................................................2010–2012 Hap Chambers, Murray .............................................................. 2011–2013 Roseanna Denton, Science Hill .................................................. 2011–2013 Retiring President..................................................................................Win Ahrens, Prospect Secretary, Kentucky Bird Records Committee.....................................................Ben Yandell 513 Lymington Court, Louisville, KY 40243 ([email protected]) THE KENTUCKY WARBLER Organ of the Kentucky Ornithological Society, published quarterly in February, May, August and November, The Kentucky Warbler is sent to all members not in arrears for dues. Current membership categories and corresponding dues follow: Regular ($15.00); Contributing ($25.00); Student ($10.00); Family ($20.00); and Life ($300.00). Direct manuscripts and communications to the editor. Send membership dues to the Treasurer. Make requests for back issues to the Corresponding Secretary. Editor................................................................................................Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr. c/o Ky. State Nature Preserves Commission, 801 Schenkel Lane, Frankfort, KY, 40601 ([email protected]) Editorial Advisory Board Brian W. Smith and Ben Yandell THE COVER We thank David Gourley for the image of the yellow-pigmented Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) taken 20 January 2011 in southwestern Boyle County (see p. 65). Financial support for color reproduction in this issue provided by the Daniel Boone National Forest. 2011 THE KENTUCKY WARBLER 47 IN MEMORIAM: JAMES W. HANCOCK Long-time K.O.S. member, James W. Hancock, passed away 17 April 2011 at his home in Madisonville, Kentucky. Jim was 93 years old and had lived his entire life in Hopkins County where he worked as a U.S. Postal Carrier. More recent members of the Society may be unfamiliar with Jim’s name and his many contributions to the study of birds in Kentucky. He was most active from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, and he authored 31 articles on birds between 1937 and 1976! Most of his publications dealt with the birdlife of his home county, highlighted by “The Breeding Birds of Hopkins County” (The Kentucky Warbler 30 (1954): 3-5; 19-25; 41-47). He was former president of the Tradewater Audu- bon Society as well as a Kentucky Colonel. Jim also had a keen interest in ornithological literature, and he possessed one of the most extensive personal libraries of bird books in the eastern United States. Jim continued to remain active in recent years and went birding with his daughter, Brenda James, every Friday up until early this year, keeping meticulous notes in his trademark mini-spiral notebooks. COMPARISON OF THE NEOTROPICAL MIGRANT BREEDING BIRD COMMUNITIES OF THE PRESERVE AND THE RECREATION AREA OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON STATE PARK, 2004–2007 Micah W. Perkins Introduction Neotropical migrant birds spend winters south of the continental United States, but they comprise a substantial component of Kentucky’s breeding avifauna, particularly in forested habitats. Neotropical migrant bird populations have declined with the loss of wintering (Rappole and McDonald 1994; Keller and Yahner 2006), migratory (Sherry and Holmes 1993; DeGraaf and Rappole 1995), and breeding (DeGraaf and Rappole 1995; Sherry and Holmes 1995) habitats. Breeding habitats have been negatively affected from the loss of the eastern deciduous forest (Robbins et al. 1989; DeGraaf and Rappole 1995). Moreover, isolation and fragmentation of forest blocks, an increase in the amount of forest edge, and increased rates of nest predation and brood parasitism have caused additional impacts (Donovan et al. 1995; Faaborg et al. 1995; Brittingham and Temple 1983). Stopover and breeding habitat for many Neotropical migrant birds can be found throughout Kentucky on both private and public lands. For example, there are 52 Kentucky State Parks and 54 Kentucky State Nature Preserves totaling about 25% of the total public state-owned lands (Ky. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources 2005). Although designated with different missions and management objectives, both state parks and state nature preserves provide forest habitat for breeding Neotropical migrant birds. Seven Kentucky State Parks, including John James Audubon State Park at Henderson, Henderson County, have a portion of them dedicated as State Nature Preserve. For the purposes of this study, I hypothesized that the forest core-dominant “preserve” at John James Audubon State Park provides a better quality forest habitat for Neotropical migrant birds than the “recreation area” with more forest edge and open mowed areas. The objective was to understand the diversity of the Neotropical migrant breeding bird communities while focusing on com- paring the preserve and the recreation area of John James Audubon State Park. Methods John James Audubon State Park is surrounded by a mosaic of residential, urban, agricultural, forest, open land, and bottomland hardwood forest habitats. Lying along the lower Ohio River floodplain, the Park has rich loess soils and rolling hills covered with a mature, mixed hardwood forest with an open understory. Throughout the Park, thick 48 THE KENTUCKY WARBLER Vol. 87 understory occurs along edges and in tree-fall openings within forested areas. Dominant tree species include Sugar maple (Acer saccharum), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), American basswood (Tilia americana), White ash (Fraxinus americana) and various oaks (Quercus spp.). The Park encompasses 283 ha (700 acres), with 137 ha (338 acres) designated as a Kentucky State Nature Preserve. The preserve has reduced human impact with 7.2 km (4.5 mi) of trails that allow only foot traffic. The rest of the Park has a recreational focus with paved roads, tennis courts, picnic shelters, a pet trail, playgrounds, mowed roadsides, parking areas, and mowed open areas including a golf course, campground, and picnic areas. Two lakes are present with one being in the preserve and one in the recreation area. Using ArcGIS Explorer, I determined the amount of forest edge (forest habitat < 100 m (325 ft) from forest edge) and forest core area (forest habitat > 100 m (325 ft) from forest edge) for both the preserve and the recreation area (ESRI 2009). I surveyed breeding bird populations using 10 fixed-radius (radius = 50 m [162.5 ft]) point counts (Ralph et al. 1995). Five points were in the preserve, and five points were in the recreation area. Points were randomly selected within each area. For each point, I recorded all birds seen or heard within a five-minute period after a three-minute waiting period at the point. Birds were determined to be within 10 m (32.5 ft), 25 m (81.3 ft) or 50 m (162.5
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