| | Accession Number | 5004019 |
| | Title | Bird Inventory for National Capital Parks-East |
| | Project Description | National Capital Parks-East (NACE) consists of a diverse set of parks, totaling over 3200 |
| | hectares, owned and managed by the National Park Service within Washington, D.C., and in |
| | Prince George's and Charles Counties, Maryland. Although some sites have been developed for |
| | public use, others are largely undeveloped, and function mainly as open space and habitat for |
| | plants and wildlife. As human populations have increased within the Washington metropolitan |
| | area, these undeveloped parks are frequently targeted by local governments for projects that |
| | require open space. Within the National Park Service, discussions have focused on the need to |
| | balance the Park's missions of preserving historic and biotic resources. Knowledge of the |
| | composition and spatial distribution of bird communities in NACE parks would contribute greatly |
| | to sound decisions on future use and management of park properties. In this study, we surveyed |
| | populations of birds that use NACE parks during the nesting, wintering, and migration seasons, |
| | and consolidated previously collected data on birds in NACE parks. |
| | Keywords | bird distribution, geographic information system, habitat requirements, neotropical migrants, urban |
| | ecology, washington, d.c., |
| | Principal | Deanna K Dawson, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: deanna_dawson@usgs.gov; |
| | Investigators |
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