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Grassland Bird and Raptor Inventory at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park 2022 - Open Format Dataset

Metadata Updated: July 27, 2024

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (NHP) includes grassland habitats that are maintained for the interpretation of historic Civil War battles. In 2022, as part of the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring program, the University of Delaware conducted a grassland bird and raptor inventory in the park. The goals of this inventory were to determine the grassland bird use of Harpers Ferry grasslands during Spring and Fall migration, estimate the abundance and daily nest survival for focal breeding species, and determine the raptor use during migration. We established and used multiple avian sampling techniques to address these goals including distance sampling using line transects, mist-netting to capture passerine birds, point counts, hawk watching, and nest searching and monitoring. We conducted this inventory during the annual cycle starting in March 2022 and completed the sampling in October 2022. During the course of this effort, we detected 111 species using the Harpers Ferry grasslands at some time during the year. We found that the park is supporting migrating and breeding grassland birds and that the avian species composition changes over the course of the annual cycle. During migration, we detected focal grassland bird species including Bobolink, Savannah Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, and Eastern Meadowlark. During the breeding season, we located and monitored Eastern Meadowlark and Grasshopper Sparrow nests with adequate sample sizes to estimate daily nest survival. We found that Eastern Meadowlark daily nest survival was relatively high (99%) and was influenced by the proximity of the nest to a forested edge.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2305156

Dates

Metadata Created Date July 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date July 27, 2024

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Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date July 27, 2024
Publisher National Park Service
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2024-07-22T12:00:00Z
Data Last Modified 2024-07-22
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Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2305156
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Program Code 010:118, 010:119
Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > National Park Service
Related Documents https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2305156
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Temporal 2022-03-14T12:00:00Z/2022-10-27T12:00:00Z

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