Bird Communities of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado: A Citizen Science Project
May 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bluebird on a branch has caught an insect dinner
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. MT/1:00 – 2:00 p.m. CT
This webinar is one in a two-part series. See the full event flyer for details.
Over the past 5 years, community volunteers from the Weminuche Audubon Society have conducted a study of bird communities in Ponderosa Pine-dominated forested sites that received wildland fuels reduction treatments. This webinar from the Forest Stewards Guild dives into the effects of these treatments, specifically prescribed fire or shrub-layer thinning, on the composition of bird communities in the southern Rocky Mountains, showing that tree canopy and shrub-layer composition and structure have important influences on the number of bird species present and the predominate feeding and nesting behaviors of the avian community.