Avian Use of Purple Loosestrife Dominated Habitat Relative to Other Vegetation Types in a Lake Huron Wetland Complex
Table 3
| TABLE 3. Number of nests and percent of plots within vegetation types where nests of the three most commonly observed bird species were found in Saginaw Bay wetlands, 1994-1995. | ||||
| Vegetation typea | Marsh Wren | Swamp Sparrow | Red-winged Blackbird | Total plotsb |
| SS | 0 | 4 (9%) | 13 (30%) | 43 |
| WM/SS | 0 | 2 (6%) | 0 | 31 |
| WM/SS/LS | 0 | 2 (12%) | 0 | 16 |
| WM/LS | 0 | 4 (27%) | 0 | 15 |
| WM | 0 | 1 (4%) | 3 (11%) | 27 |
| IC | 8 (23%) | 3 (8%) | 5 (14%) | 35 |
| CC | 12 (17%) | 0 | 0 | 71 |
| CB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Total nests | 20 | 16 | 21 | - |
| a Vegetation
types: SS = scrub-shrub, WM/SS = wet meadow/scrub-shrub, WM/SS/LS = wet
meadow/scrub-shrub/loosestrife, WM/LS = wet meadow/loosestrife, WM = wet
meadow, IC = inland cattail, CC = coastal cattail, CB = coastal bulrush. b Includes early, mid-, and late season surveys. |
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