Cold Bay (1970)
Basic information
Sample name: Cold Bay (1970)
Reference: E. P. Bailey. 1974. Passerine diversity, relative abundance, and migration at Cold Bay, Alaska. Bird-Banding 45(2):145-151 [ER 714]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Alaska
Coordinate: 55° 12' N, 162° 43' W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "near the mouth of Russel Creek, 3 miles from Range headquarters at Cold Bay"
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tundra
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 11.0
CMT: -1.8
MAP: 1006.0
Habitat comments: "tundra, composed mainly of heath (Empetrumnigrum) and various grasses and sedges"
climate data based on station 70316 (Cold Bay airport)
climate data based on station 70316 (Cold Bay airport)
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: mist nets
Sample size: 486
Years: 1970
Days: 163
Nets or traps: 4
Net or trap nights: 652
Sampling comments: "Four mist nets were usually used but for short periods up to six were maintained" (four is assumed as a best guess); netting was between 28 May and 6 November and was assumed to be carried out every day
Metadata
Sample: 1034
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-08-16 20:28:44
Modified: 2014-08-16 20:28:44
Abundance distribution
14 species
2 singletons
total count 486
Fisher's α: 2.691
geometric series k: 0.6716
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7876
Shannon's H: 1.8326
Good's u: 0.9959
Register
| Passerculus sandwichensis | 177 | 1.7 g insectivore |
| Setophaga petechia | 102 | |
| Carduelis flammea | 53 | 13.0 g |
| Riparia riparia | 51 | 3.4 g insectivore |
| Cardellina pusilla | 37 | insectivore |
| Zonotrichia atricapilla | 35 | 31.7 g granivore |
| Passerella iliaca | 17 | 2.0 g insectivore-granivore |
| Anthus spinoletta | 3 | 23.9 g |
| Carduelis hornemanni | 3 | 4.3 g |
| Calcarius lapponicus | 2 | 27.4 g |
| Catharus guttatus | 2 | 30.1 g insectivore-frugivore |
| Lanius excubitor | 2 | |
| Calidris ptilocnemis | 1 | 4.1 g |
| Tachycineta bicolor | 1 | 21.2 g insectivore |