• Address:
  705 Spear Street
  South Burlington, Vermont 05403
  United States of America
  
  Phone: (802) 391-4135
  Email: femc@uvm.edu
  Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

This project was initiated and conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society Adirondack Program beginning in 2004. We have monitored a suite of boreal target species in low elevation boreal habitats in the Adirondacks, conducting 10 minute point counts along transects of 5 points and occurring annually at approximately 60 locations. This work has been more robust in some years than others due to available funding; highest numbers of sites visited are associated primarily with 2007 and later. Official target species are American three-toed toodpecker, black-backed woodpecker, olive-sided flycatcher, yellow-bellied flycatcher, Canada jay, boreal chickadee, Tennessee warbler, Cape May warbler, bay-breasted warbler, palm warbler, Lincoln’s sparrow, and rusty blackbird, though this dataset includes information for other songbird and woodpecker species also. We have never had high enough detections of three-toed woodpeckers, nor Tennessee, Cape May, and bay-breasted warblers to conduct population analyses. Occupancy patterns and trends for these and other species are described in Glennon (2014) and Glennon et al. (In Review). These data also contributed to the findings described in Ralston et al. (2015) and McNulty et al. (2016). WCS closed its Adirondack Program in 2018; this work will continue through the Adirondack Watershed Institute of Paul Smith's College.

• Label: Dummy

• Description: Dummy variable

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: ordinal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Year

• Description: Year of survey

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: ordinal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Date

• Description: Date of survey

• Storage Type: date

• Measurment Type: datetime
• String Format: M/D/YYYY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Location

• Description: Location of survey

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: M/D/YYYY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: UTM1

• Description: Approximate X coordinate of centroid of transect polygon (transects have 5 points each)

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: ordinal
• String Format: M/D/YYYY
• Unit: m
• Number Type: -1

• Label: UTM2

• Description: Approximate Y coordinate of centroid of transect polygon (transects have 5 points each)

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: ordinal
• String Format: M/D/YYYY
• Unit: m
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Observer

• Description: Initials of person who conducted the count

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: ordinal
• String Format: M/D/YYYY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Start time

• Description: Time of start of transect of counts

• Storage Type: time

• Measurment Type: datetime
• String Format: hhmm

• Label: End time

• Description: Time at end of transect

• Storage Type: time

• Measurment Type: datetime
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Time

• Description: Time at start of 10 minute point count

• Storage Type: time

• Measurment Type: datetime
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Point

• Description: Point on the transect (most transects have 5 points)

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Species

• Description: Passerine or Piciform species detected by sight or ear, 4 letter AOU code

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Time period

• Description: Time of detection during 10 minute count, either A (first 3 minutes), B (second 2 minutes), or C (last 5 minutes)

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Activity

• Description: Activity, generally I (individual seen), S (singing), C (calling), D (drumming), or some combination of these

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Within 50m

• Description: Based on their judgement, denotes whether bird was detected within 50m of observer or not, Y or N

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Notes

• Description: Additional information provided by observer

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: hhmm
• Number Type: -1

• 10 minute point count
• Sampling Description: Standard point count methodology, 10 minute counts divided into 3 time periods.
• Frequency: Transects of 5 points, generally sampled once per year during breeding season.