Comparison of two double-observer point-count approaches for estimating breeding bird abundance

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1674-1681

  Forcey, Greg M ^a,b   Anderson, James T ^a   Ammer, Frank K ^a,c   Whitmore, Robert C ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pandion Systems Inc   (United States)

^c FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird abundance; Count techniques; Detection probability; Double observer; Indices; Observer variability; Point counts; West Virginia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PROBABILITY; SURVEYING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

AVES;

EID: 33846850561     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1674:COTDPA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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