| Abstract: | With continuing tropical deforestation, there is increased concern for birds that depend on forest habitats in Latin America. During the past 10 northern winters, we have conducted quantitative studies of habitat use by wintering migrant songbirds and by residents in the Greater Antilles, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Many migrants, but few residents, winter in forest fragments and in certain arboreal agricultural habitats (citrus, cacao, shade coffee). Many other agricultural habitats (sun coffee, mango, commercial banana plantations, and heavily grazed pasture) are avoided by most birds. Some species, such as thrushes and ground-feeding warblers, depend on closed-canopy forest. Some, such as Northern Waterthrush (Seiurus noveboracensis) and Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea), winter primarily in mangroves or other swamp forests. The majority of neotropical migrant passerines winter in forest fragments and certain agricultural habitats, as well as mature forest; but many resident species, especially suboscines (Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Formicariidae, Papridae), are heavily impacted by loss and fragmentation of the forest. |
| Genre: | Article |
| ProdID: | 5222748 |
| Citation Author: | Robbins, C.S.; Dowell, B.A.; Dawson, D.K. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | El Pitirre (Society of Caribbean Ornithology) |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Habitat constraints on the distribution of passerine residents and neotropical migrants in Latin America; 1994; Article; Journal; El Pitirre (Society of Caribbean Ornithology); Robbins, C.S.; Dowell, B.A.; Dawson, D.K. |
| Citation Start Page: | 5 (abs) |
| Citation Volume: | 7 |
| Citation Year: | 1994 |
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| Text: | Habitat constraints on the distribution of passerine residents and neotropical migrants in Latin America; 1994; Article; Journal; El Pitirre (Society of Caribbean Ornithology); Robbins, C.S.; Dowell, B.A.; Dawson, D.K. |
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| Date Other: | Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:18 -0500 |
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