Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
| Table 3. Breeding birds found in riparian habitats at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas, 1998-1999, as determined by point counts (excluding swallows and raptors). Species shown in bold are grassland-associated. | ||||||
| Common Name | Fox Creek Gallery Forest (9 points) |
Palmer Creek Gallery (8 points) |
Prairie/Riparian (3 points) |
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| Total | Relative Abundance |
Total | Relative Abundance |
Total | Relative Abundance |
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| Great Blue Heron | 2 | 0.6 | ||||
| Wood Duck | 13 | 2.7 | ||||
| Northern Bobwhite | 7 | 3.0 | ||||
| Killdeer | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.6 | ||
| Upland Sandpiper | 3 | 1.3 | ||||
| Mourning Dove | 8 | 2.4 | 6 | 2.6 | ||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 21 | 4.3 | 10 | 3.0 | 5 | 2.2 |
| Common Nighthawk | 4 | 1.2 | 2 | 0.9 | ||
| Belted Kinfisher | 5 | 1.5 | ||||
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 2 | 0.4 | ||||
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 22 | 4.5 | 9 | 2.7 | 4 | 1.7 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Downy Woodpecker | 18 | 3.7 | 6 | 1.8 | ||
| Northern Flicker | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.4 | ||
| Pileated Woodpecker | 2 | 0.4 | ||||
| Eastern Wood-pewee | 23 | 4.7 | 14 | 4.2 | ||
| Acadian Flycatcher | 1 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.9 | ||
| Eastern Phoebe | 2 | 0.4 | 4 | 1.2 | 4 | 1.7 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 20 | 4.1 | 11 | 3.3 | 6 | 2.6 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 2 | 0.4 | 4 | 1.2 | 8 | 3.5 |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 1.3 | ||
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Warbling Vireo | 1 | 0.3 | ||||
| Red-eyed Vireo | 7 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.3 | ||
| Blue Jay | 23 | 4.7 | 27 | 8.0 | 5 | 2.2 |
| American Crow | 26 | 5.3 | 8 | 2.4 | ||
| Black-capped Chickadee | 55 | 11.3 | 48 | 14.2 | 5 | 2.2 |
| Eastern Titmouse | 44 | 10.9 | 15 | 4.5 | 2 | 0.9 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 8 | 1.6 | 5 | 1.5 | ||
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 11 | 2.3 | 5 | 1.5 | ||
| Bewick's Wren | 1 | 0.3 | ||||
| Carolina Wren | 10 | 1.8 | ||||
| House Wren | 7 | 1.4 | 5 | 1.5 | ||
| Eastern Bluebird | 5 | 1.0 | 8 | 2.4 | 6 | 2.6 |
| American Robin | 3 | 0.6 | 5 | 1.5 | 3 | 1.3 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 5 | 1.5 | 3 | 1.3 | ||
| Brown Thrasher | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.9 |
| European Starling | 2 | 0.4 | 10 | 4.3 | ||
| Northern Parula | 11 | 2.3 | 3 | 0.9 | ||
| Yellow Warbler | 1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Summer Tanager | 1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Eastern Towhee | 2 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.4 | ||
| Field Sparrow | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.6 | ||
| Grasshopper Sparrow | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 9 | 3.9 |
| Lark Sparrow | 4 | 0.8 | ||||
| Song Sparrow | 2 | 0.9 | ||||
| Northern Cardinal | 16 | 3.3 | 7 | 2.1 | ||
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.4 | ||
| Blue Grosbeak | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.4 | ||
| Indigo Bunting | 33 | 6.6 | 9 | 2.7 | 2 | 0.9 |
| Dickcissel | 31 | 6.3 | 17 | 5.0 | 57 | 24.6 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 6 | 1.2 | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.9 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 29 | 5.9 | 15 | 4.5 | 36 | 15.5 |
| Common Grackle | 1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 20 | 4.1 | 48 | 4.2 | 26 | 11.2 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 5 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.4 | ||
| House Sparrow | 2 | 3.6 | ||||
| American Goldfinch | 4 | 1.2 | 3 | 1.3 | ||
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
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