Breeding Bird Relationships to Landscape Metrics in Coastal Plain Georgia
Table 2
Common and scientific name, 2007 Southeastern Coastal Plain Partners in Flight conservation score, significant population trend during 1966–2005 for the Coastal Plaina, and partial Breeding Bird Survey route mean abundance.
Common name
Scientific name
Conservation score
Trend
Mean
Acadian flycatcher
Empidonax virescens
15
+
0.28
Blue jay
Cyanocitta cristata
14
−
4.46
Brown thrasher
Toxostoma rufum
15
−
1.57
Brown-headed cowbird
Molothrus ater
8
−
1.29
Brown-headed nuthatch
Sitta pusilla
20
−
0.20
Carolina chickadee
Poecile carolinensis
16
−
0.92
Carolina wren
Thryothorus ludovicianus
13
0
5.21
Downy woodpecker
Picoides pubescens
14
−
0.42
Eastern kingbird
Tyrannus tyrannus
15
−
1.38
Eastern towhee
Pipilo erythrophthalmus
16
−
5.50
Eastern wood-pewee
Contopus virens
14
−
0.44
Field sparrow
Spizella pusilla
15
−
0.94
Indigo bunting
Passerina cyanea
14
0
3.22
Northern bobwhite
Colinus virginianus
16
−
3.62
Northern parula
Parula americana
15
0
0.94
Orchard oriole
Icterus spurius
16
0
0.80
Pileated woodpecker
Dryocopus pileatus
14
0
0.51
Pine warbler
Dendroica pinus
14
+
1.18
Prairie warbler
Dendroica discolor
18
−
0.26
Red-bellied woodpecker
Melanerpes carolinus
13
0
3.44
Red-headed woodpecker
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
15
0
0.31
Summer tanager
Piranga rubra
16
0
0.84
White-eyed vireo
Vireo griseus
14
0
1.63
Wood thrush
Hylocichla mustelina
15
−
0.72
aSauer et al. [14]. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, results and analysis 1966–2003. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Md, USA.