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Appendix. List of Species included in this study. Common name Scientific name List of common and scientific names of the 108 bird species used in this study. Names from the 7th edition of the Checklist of Field sparrow Spizella pusilla North American (American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998, Song sparrow Melospiza melodia Washington, DC, USA). Swamp sparrow Melospiza georgiana Eastern towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus Common name Scientific name Northern Cardinalis cardinalis Rose-breasted grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus Little blue heron Egretta caerulea Black-headed grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus Cattle egret Bubulcus ibis caerulea Green heron Butorides virescens Indigo Passerina cyanea Common snipe Gallinago delicata Passerina ciris Northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus Spiza americana California quail Callipepla californica Lark bunting Calamospiza melanocorys Black vulture Coragyps atratus Western tanager Piranga ludoviciana Burrowing owl Athene cunicularia Scarlet tanager Piranga olivacea Yellow-billed cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Summer tanager Piranga rubra Black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus Purple martin Progne subis Downy woodpecker Picoides pubescens Tree swallow Tachycineta bicolor Yellow-bellied sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius Violet-green swallow Tachycineta thalassina Pileated woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus Northern rough-winged swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis Red-headed woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus Cedar waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum Red-bellied woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus Loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus Chuck-will’s-widow Caprimulgus carolinensis Red-eyed vireo Vireo olivaceus Common nighthawk Chordeiles minor Warbling vireo Vireo gilvus Chimney swift Chaetura pelagica White-eyed vireo Vireo griseus Western kingbird Tyrannus verticalis Black-and-white warbler Mniotilta varia Western wood-Pewee Contopus sordidulus Prothonotary warbler Protonotaria citrea Acadian flycatcher Empidonax virescens Nashville warbler Vermivora ruficapilla Least flycatcher Empidonax minimus Orange-crowned warbler Vermivora celata Blue jay Cyanocitta cristata Yellow warbler Dendroica petechia Fish crow Corvus ossifragus Magnolia warbler Dendroica magnolia Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus Chestnut-sided warbler Dendroica pensylvanica Yellow-headed blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus Blackburnian warbler Dendroica fusca Sturnella magna Black-throated green warbler Dendroica virens Western meadowlark Sturnella neglecta Pine warbler Dendroica pinus Orchard oriole Icterus spurius Prairie warbler Dendroica discolor Bullock’s oriole Icterus bullockii Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla Brewer’s blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus Mourning warbler Oporornis philadelphia Common grackle Quiscalus quiscula MacGillivray’s warbler Oporornis tolmiei Evening grosbeak Coccothraustes vespertinus Common yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas Purple Carpodacus purpureus Yellow-breasted chat Icteria virens House finch Carpodacus mexicanus Hooded warbler Wilsonia citrina American goldfinch Carduelis tristis Canada warbler Wilsonia canadensis Lesser goldfinch Carduelis psaltria American redstart Setophaga ruticilla Pine siskin Carduelis pinus Northern mockingbird Mimus polyglottos Vesper sparrow Pooecetes gramineus Gray catbird Dumetella carolinensis Savannah sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis Brown thrasher Toxostoma rufum Grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum Carolina wren Thryothorus ludovicianus Lark sparrow Chondestes grammacus Bewick’s wren Thryomanes bewickii White-throated sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis House wren Troglodytes aedon Spizella passerina Winter wren Troglodytes troglodytes Clay-colored sparrow Spizella pallida Sedge wren Cistothorus platensis

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White-breasted nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Red-breasted nuthatch Sitta canadensis Brown-headed nuthatch Sitta pusilla Tufted titmouse Baeolophus bicolor Black-capped chickadee Poecile atricapillus Carolina chickadee Poecile carolinensis Blue-gray gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea Wood thrush Hylocichla mustelina Veery Catharus fuscescens Hermit thrush Catharus guttatus American robin Turdus migratorius Eastern bluebird Sialia sialis

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