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Seasonal Bird Traffic Between Grand Teton National Park and Western Mexico1 Seasonal Bird Traffic Between Grand Teton National Park and Western Mexico1 Martin L. Cody2 ________________________________________ Abstract This paper presents data on variations in the breeding populations will be required before useful conservation densities of birds in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo- strategies for migrant bird populations can be devised. ming, and evaluates these variations among years, ha- This integration, through organizations like Partners in bitats, and as functions of the migratory status of the Flight, must become a research priority in the future. breeding birds. Breeding opportunities certainly vary with the extremely variable weather conditions in the park year-to-year, and part of the variation in breeding density must be attributable to unpredictable on-site resources. A minority of the breeding birds is resident, Introduction but many species are long-distance migrants, and others make more limited winter movements of various Resource managers in parks and reserves at northern distances. Most but not all of the migrants overwinter latitudes are faced with the daunting task of conserving in habitats that are very dissimilar to those in which populations of migratory birds that are within their they breed. In some migrants the habitat range appears jurisdictions only part of the year. The status of the greater in wintering than in breeding habitats, and in breeding birds may be evaluated through monitoring others not. Some migrants winter syntopically with programs, which can assess relative abundance or den- close relatives and others occupy winter habitats that sity of breeding birds as functions of habitat on-site, lack resident relatives. I bring some perspective to document changes in breeding abundance or density these variations using winter and early spring observa- between years, and detect trends in relative abundance tions of the same species (though not necessarily mem- or breeding density over the longer term. However, in- bers of the same Teton populations) in western Mexico. terpreting changes in breeding density is difficult at In some instances in which Mexican wintering habitat best, as usually both off-site and on-site factors will be similar to northern breeding habitat is available, win- involved. tering birds may be relegated to different habitats because of prior occupancy by resident species, often A brief evaluation of these factors illustrates the dif- related species such as congenerics or even conspeci- ficulties and the unknowns. At the breeding site, recent fics. weather conditions may affect breeding densities in the current year. For example, precipitation from winter through spring as well as spring temperatures both Overwintering habitats are almost certainly at least as affect different breeding resources in different ways, variable in survival opportunities as are the breeding generally both species- and habitat-specific. Breeding habitats for reproduction. They also vary year-to-year densities also may be a function of recruitment and in weather conditions that affect food supplies, and are breeding success in the previous year, and therefore of co-occupied by resident species, some of which are the on-site conditions during earlier periods. The over- close relatives to the winter visitors and have similar winter survival of resident birds may vary according to ecologies. The vagaries of overwinter survivorship and winter conditions on site, whereas the survival of the transitions of the birds between breeding and win- migrants in the off-season depends on wintering con- tering grounds constitute a broad and poorly under- ditions elsewhere. For breeding birds at middle latit- stood category of off-site factors for conservationists udes in the United States, wintering sites are distributed and resource managers whose chief source of infor- as far south as northern South America, and encompass mation is the breeding populations. A much closer a wide range of non-breeding habitats. Wintering con- integration of research on breeding and wintering ditions for the migrants, and thence their over-winter __________ survival, are likely to vary in species-, habitat-, and 1A version of this paper was presented at the Third Interna- latitude-specific ways. The vagaries of the migration tional Partners in Flight Conference, March 20-24, 2002, itself, the cues, timing, stopover resources, and so Asilomar Conference Grounds, California. forth, comprise additional variables affecting a safe 2 Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution, passage. And further, habitat perceived as offering University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA. E- good breeding opportunities to spring migrants might mail: [email protected]. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191. 2005 32 Seasonal Bird Traffic—Cody intercept birds that would otherwise continue north to Breeding Birds in Jackson Hole, breed in or near their natal habitats. Thus the range of Wyoming factors contributing variation to breeding densities is indeed diverse. Climate, Weather, and Habitats Consideration of the broader aspects of nearctic- Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) encompasses the neotropical bird populations not only helps to identify larger part of Jackson Hole, a north-south rift valley gaps in our present knowledge, but also highlights a between 1800-2000m elevation at around 44° N lati- potential to gain a better understanding of the larger tude, 111° W longitude, and flanked on the west by the system through wider geographical and cooperative Teton Range (elevation <2000 to >4000 m). The land- studies. While there are formidable challenges inherent scape is spectacular (Love and Reed 1968, Knight in such studies, there are also causes for optimism. The 1994), and supports a wide range of habitats from large and enthusiastic attendance at this Partners in Great Basin sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) desert on the Flight conference attests to the broad perception that valley floor through wetlands and marshy willow (Salix the challenges are appealing and perhaps tractable, and spp.) scrub to broad-leafed woodlands (cottonwoods, an extensive literature includes many excellent over- aspen-Populus spp.), coniferous forest, and alpine tun- views of migration systems and confirms the wide- dra. In the mid-1990’s, the National Park Service sup- spread interest (e.g. Keast and Morton 1980, Berthold, ported a proposal to instigate a series of breeding bird 1988, Hagan and Johnson 1992, Finch and Stangel monitoring sites that span the complete habitat range, 1993, DeGraaf and Rappole 1995, Martin and Finch some 30 sites in all. At these sites, standardized census 1995, Rappole 1995, Marzluff and Sallabanks 1998, protocols yield breeding bird densities spot-mapped in Bauer 2001, Faaborg 2003). The new technique of sites mostly around 6 ha in size (Cody 1996, 1999; stable isotopes (Kelly et al. 2002, Rubenstein et al. Cody and Cain 1997). The monitoring sites differ from 2002) promises to yield a more rapid understanding of one another in vegetation structure, as illustrated in some aspects of migration patterns than banding Figure 1, though clearly this quantification of habitat studies have produced, and interest in the “stopover provides at least a crude indication of the resources ecology” of migrant birds is expanding (e.g. Hutto available to breeding birds. At several sites we now 1998, Wang et al. 1998, Warnock and Bishop 1998). have around a decade of continuous coverage, but two have a more extended coverage, and were first cen- This paper makes no attempt to review or synthesize sused in the 1960’s (Cody 1974). In all, around 150 the growing literature, but presents a personal view of bird species breed or have bred at the monitoring sites. migrants that breed in Wyoming and winter south as far as northern South America. The data are generally 2.0 sketchy, often incomplete, and obviously constrained Conifers C'woods/aspen in time and space; their use is intended to be more illu- Willows strative of themes and potential research avenues than Sagebrush supportive of specific facts or theories, and note that 1.4 Grass/forbes truly definitive data are elusive even in the best of cases. I discuss results of monitoring summer bird populations in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, and patterns of year-to-year variation in breeding 0.8 densities measured at fixed and mapped sites. I then take a long stride to where and how these same birds 1988 burn may spend the non-breeding season in western Mexico, where they are often found in contrasting habitats and 0.2 with different constellations of coexisting species. The northern and southern endpoints are those for which I Log(Vegetation Height -m) have some familiarity, but presumably my data could be paralleled broadly by those of many other ornitho- -0.4 logists, each with personal favorite summering and 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 wintering birding locales. Log (Profile Area) Figure 1—Monitoring sites for breeding bird densities in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, classified by vegeta- tion structure. The ordinate reflects vegetation height, the abscissa the total amount of vegetation under the foliage profile, or total vegetation density. Waterfowl, aerial forag- ers, and tundra survey sites are not represented on the graph. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191. 2005 33 Seasonal Bird Traffic—Cody YEAR-TO-YEAR WEATHER VARIATION, MORAN WY months only. The severe climate makes GTNP habitats 1000 10 Mean P ± SD = 606 ± 124 mm Annual Temperature ( particularly conducive to seasonal use by birds, and the Mean T ± SD = 2.23 ± 0.83 oC great majority are migratory species. Further, returning ) 800 8 migrant species face considerable uncertainty in local mm ( conditions, in terms of both the timing of the turn of 600 6 on the seasons and the absolute temperature and precipi- ti a it tation values they encounter. p 400 4 i rec P Variations in Breeding Bird Densities l 200 2 o C) nnua In most years passerine birds are established on-site in A 0 0 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 GTNP and breeding is underway by late May or early SEASONAL WEATHER VARIATION, MORAN WY June, and breeding densities are high in many habitats C) (see e.g.
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