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Avian Inventory of Tallgrass Prairie
National Preserve, Kansas, 1998-1999

Table 4

Table 4. Densities of birds found in grassland habitats at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas, 1998-1999, as determined by strip-transects. Species shown in bold are grassland-associated.
Common Name Burned & Grazed Prairie
(6 transects)		 Unburned & Ungrazed
Prairie (1 transect)		 Brome Field
(1 transect)
Total Birds/ha Total Birds/ha Total Birds/ha
Killdeer 9 1.8 1 0.2 1 0.2
Upland Sandpiper 6 1.2 0 0 0 0
Mourning Dove 8 1.6 6 1.2 0 0
Belted Kingfisher 1 0.2 0 0 0 0
Red-bellied Woodpecker 0 0 3 0.6 0 0
Downy Woodpecker 0 0 0 0 3 0.6
Northern Flicker 0 0 2 0.4 0 0
Eastern Wood-pewee 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
Least Flycatcher 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
Eastern Pheobe 0 0 3 0.6 0 0
Great Crested Flycatcher 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
Eastern Kingbird 2 0.4 0 0 0 0
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 0 0 6 1.2 0 0
American Crow 0 0 4 0.8 0 0
Horned Lark 30 6 0 0 0 0
Black-capped Chickadee 0 0 30 6 0 0
Eastern Titmouse 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
Carolina Wren 0 0 5 1 0 0
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
Eastern Bluebird 0 0 1 0.2 1 0.2
Townsend's Solitaire 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
American Robin 0 0 1 0.2 16 3.2
Brown Thrasher 0 0 8 1.6 0 0
European Starling 0 0 16 3.2 0 0
Palm Warbler 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
Summer Tanager 0 0 1 0.2 0 0
Eastern Towhee 0 0 2 0.4 0 0
American Tree Sparrow 0 0 3 0.6 0 0
Savannah Sparrow 2 0.4 1 0.2 4 0.8
Grasshopper Sparrow 65 13 1 0.2 3 0.6
Fox Sparrow 0 0 6 1.2 0 0
Harris' Sparrow 0 0 14 2.8 0 0
Dark-eyed Junco 1 0.2 2 0.4 0 0
Lapland Longspur 77 15.4 0 0 1 0.2
Smith's Longspur 136 27.2 0 0 0 0
Northern Cardinal 0 0 8 1.6 0 0
Dickcissel 3 0.6 5 1 39 7.8
Red-winged Blackbird 50 10 1 0.2 4 0.8
Eastern Meadowlark 83 16.6 14 2.8 14 2.8
Western Meadowlark 11 2.2 0 0 1 0.2
Brewer's Blackbird 0 0 3 0.6 0 0
Common Grackle 0 0 0 0 34 6.8
Brown-headed Cowbird 5 1 3 0.6 6 1.2
American Goldfinch 4 0.8 1 0.2 0 0
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