The Breeding Distribution of Five Colonial Waterbird Species in Coastal North Carolina

join(, Donald A. McCrimmon; Parnell, James F.

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“…Cattle Egret, however, seemed to nest in lowest branches. Vertical stratification, with larger species nesting higher, is consistent with what has been reported in the literature (Jenni 1969;Burger 1978;McCrimmon and Parnell 1983). Burger (1979) speculated that vertical stratification occurred as a means of reducing competition for nest sites, especially in vegetationally homogeneous colonies, such as this one.…”

Section: Colony Dynamicssupporting

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Assessing the Ecological Risk of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill to Surrounding Wildlife: a Case Study in Florida

Rumbold

Morrison

Bruner

2009

Environmental Bioindicators

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To assess the ecological risk of siting a new municipal solid waste landfill near a National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, we carried out a retrospective assessment at a large waterbird colony located near an existing active landfill. Monitoring data collected over twenty years, including flight-line counts both at dawn and midday, shows the mixed-species, communal roost was active continuously from 1987 through 2007. The largest number of birds counted in any single flight-line count was 14,750 birds recorded in July 2007. The numerically dominant species recorded during flight-line counts were, in approximate order of abundance: White Ibis, (Eudocimus albus), Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerules), Great Egret (Ardea alba), and Tricolor Heron (E. tricolor). Breeding bird censuses revealed this site served also as a nesting colony each year since 1987; annual total nest numbers peaked in 1987 at 5,127 nests. Taxa richness increased over the monitoring period with new species nesting or roosting in the colony; in particular, the endangered Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) began nesting at this site in 1995 and eventually became one of the numerically important species.Nest success at the landfill colony was similar to or higher than success probabilities reported at other colonies in south Florida. Fidelity to this colony site was likely related to the area's environmental predictability in terms of: 1) food supply and, 2) the low, temporally constant level of predation. In general, resident waterbird populations at the colony were sustainable over the monitoring period, i.e., maintained abundance, survived and reproduced at rates comparable to other colonies. Therefore, although there was evidence of organism-level impacts, there was no evidence that landfill-related stresses propagated up and had population-or community-level consequences.

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Section: Colony Dynamicssupporting

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Assessing the Ecological Risk of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill to Surrounding Wildlife: a Case Study in Florida

Rumbold

Morrison

Bruner

2009

Environmental Bioindicators

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“…Colony turnover rates as large as 50% have been documented for Black Skimmers and Least Terns (Visser and Peterson 1994), which complicates extrapolating population trends from within colony trends. For comparison, Laughing Gull site turnover is generally around 20% per year, and Common Tern site turnover may vary from 5% to 20% (McCrimmon andParnell 1983, Visser andPeterson 1994). Black Skimmer populations in New Jersey declined by approximately 30% from 1976 to 1981 and then were relatively stable from 1981 through 1988 (Burger and Gochfield 1990).…”

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Trends in colony sizes for five colonial waterbird species in the Atlantic flyway

Loman,

Loftin,

Spiege

et al. 2024

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The Cooperator Science Series was initiated in 2013. Its purpose is to facilitate the archiving and retrieval of research project reports resulting primarily from investigations supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), particularly the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. The online format was selected to provide immediate access to science reports for FWS, state and tribal management agencies, the conservation community, and the public at large. All reports in this series have been subjected to a peer review process consistent with the agencies and entities conducting the research. For U.S. Geological Survey authors, the peer review process (http://www.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/500/502-3.html) also includes review by a bureau approving official prior to dissemination. Authors and/or agencies/institutions providing these reports are solely responsible for their content. The FWS does not provide editorial or technical review of these reports. Comments and other correspondence on reports in this series should be directed to the report authors or agencies/institutions. In most cases, reports published in this series are preliminary to publication, in the current or revised format, in peer reviewed scientific literature. Results and interpretation of data contained within reports may be revised following further peer review or availability of additional data and/or analyses prior to publication in the scientific literature.The Cooperator Science Series is supported and maintained by the FWS, National Conservation Training Center at Shepherdstown, WV. The series is sequentially numbered with the publication year appended for reference and started with Report No. 101-2013. Various other numbering systems have been used by the FWS for similar, but now discontinued report series. Starting with No. 101 for the current series is intended to avoid any confusion with earlier report numbers.

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Nesting Habitat Requirements of the Brown Pelican and Their Management Implications

Visser

Vermillion

Evers

et al. 2005

Journal of Coastal Research

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The Breeding Distribution of Five Colonial Waterbird Species in Coastal North Carolina

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Assessing the Ecological Risk of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill to Surrounding Wildlife: a Case Study in Florida

Assessing the Ecological Risk of a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill to Surrounding Wildlife: a Case Study in Florida

Trends in colony sizes for five colonial waterbird species in the Atlantic flyway

Nesting Habitat Requirements of the Brown Pelican and Their Management Implications

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