Enhancing Bachman's sparrow habitat via management of red-cockaded woodpeckers
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Published source details
Hill G.E., Holler N.R., Tucker J.W. & Plentovich S. (1998) Enhancing Bachman's sparrow habitat via management of red-cockaded woodpeckers. Journal of Wildlife Management, 62, 347-354.
Published source details Hill G.E., Holler N.R., Tucker J.W. & Plentovich S. (1998) Enhancing Bachman's sparrow habitat via management of red-cockaded woodpeckers. Journal of Wildlife Management, 62, 347-354.
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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.
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Use prescribed burning on pine forests
A replicated study in 2004-2005 in open pine forests at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA (Hill et al. 1998), found that eight of 21 plots managed intensively for red-cockaded woodpeckers contained Bachman's sparrows. Management was mainly prescribed burning but included some midstorey clearing. Some areas with woody midstory vegetation and lacking dense ground cover were unsuitable for breeding sparrows. A burn rotation of 3-5 years (burning early in the growing season) appeared best to encourage the dense grassy understory and sparse midstory preferred by Bachman's sparrows for nesting, whilst not decreasing habitat suitability for red-cockaded woodpeckers.
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