Habitat selection and habitat quality for wintering wood thrushes in a coffee growing region in Honduras

Habitat‐specific survival of golden‐winged warblers Vermivora chrysoptera during the non‐breeding season in an agricultural landscape

“…If this holds true for golden-winged warblers, the true breeding season monthly survival rate is higher than the monthly among season estimate provided here. The annual survival rate for golden-winged warblers of 0.539 reported here is within the range (0.41-0.64) of other estimates for this species (Bulluck et al 2013), and other Nearctic-Neotropical songbird migrants (Stutchbury et al 2009, Calvert et al 2010, Faaborg et al 2010b, Wolfe et al 2013, Rockwell et al 2017, Bailey and King 2019. Most notably, our estimated survival rate is nearly identical to the value generated by Chandler (2010) for this same population (0.53).…”

“…The among season rate encompasses both migratory periods and the breeding season, which cannot be separated using our data. However, migratory songbirds likely experience the highest mortality during migratory periods (Sillett and Holmes 2002, Newton 2006, Calvert et al 2009, Klaassen et al 2012, Rockwell et al 2017 The annual survival rate for golden-winged warblers of 0.539 reported here is within the range (0.41-0.64) of other estimates for this species (Bulluck et al 2013), and other Nearctic-Neotropical songbird migrants (Stutchbury et al 2009, Calvert et al 2010, Faaborg et al 2010b, Wolfe et al 2013, Rockwell et al 2017, Bailey and King 2019. Most notably, our estimated survival rate is nearly identical to the value generated by Chandler (2010) for this same population (0.53).…”

“…Perhaps very dense vine tangles are selected because they offer abundant food, but at the cost of elevated predation risk. Similarly, Bailey and King (2019) reported that wintering wood thrushes selected heavily shaded coffee, apparently because of abundant food resources, but they were subject to higher predation. They suggest this decoupling between habitat selection and habitat quality was due to anthropogenic habitat alteration retaining features that served as cues for suitable habitat even though elements of the habitat that may have provided protection from predators (e.g.…”

“…This decoupling between habitat use and habitat quality is particularly pronounced in systems that have been altered relatively recently (Bock and Jones 2004). For example, in Neotropical landscapes in which forests has recently been converted to coffee, wood thrushes Hylocichla mustelina are known to select shade coffee over native forest, despite the fact that their survival is lower in shade coffee (Bailey and King 2019). It is therefore important to supplement estimates of occupancy and abundance with estimates of habitat‐specific survival to ensure that they are valid indicators of non‐breeding habitat quality (Johnson et al 2006, Johnson 2007, Streby et al 2016).…”

Avian Diversity and Habitat Use of Sultanpur National Park,Haryana, India

“…Thus the species diversity and their existence are greatly influenced by environmental resources and biological community (Pragasan & Madesh, 2018). Different habitats are selected by different types of species according to their ecological needs, survival success and evolutionary learning (Boyce et al, 2016;Young et al, 2019;Bailey & King, 2019). Evaluation of bird community has become an important tool for conservation of biodiversity of any area with high anthropogenic pressure (Rahman & Ismail, 2018;Koshelev et al, 2019).…”