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 Plain^a, 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.