Clear inscriptions, from over 50 years ago, had resisted the warm winds that skim the tide and whirl around the old post office, the stopover inns and hotels (many of which are now brothels), the shacks and small bungalows on both sides of the narrow roads, and the pale yellow museum.
Evaluation of the chronology and distribution of the marked-swans allowed us to identify post-breeding, migratory stopover, wintering, spring staging, and breeding areas, as well as distance from northerly breeding areas to the southernmost extent of the wintering range.
Few studies of post-breeding and stopover site selection have simultaneously compared the influence of factors operating at different spatial scales in explaining habitat use patterns of migratory land birds (see also [17], [20]).
When I complained about Instagram mutes to an entrepreneur friend visiting from California, he protested that he wasn't posting during his New York stopover because it would be rude.
Our goal is to directly address this information gap by comparing the bird communities in two important candidate biomass feedstocks with potential to provide post-breeding and migratory stopover habitat: Switchgrass and mixed-grass prairie.
Collectively, we find that perennial biomass feedstocks have potential to provide post-breeding and migratory stopover habitat for birds, but that the placement and management of crops will be critical factors in determining their suitability for species of conservation concern.
Consequently, at a time when bioenergy crops are potentially transforming agricultural landscapes, their ability to provide important stopover and post-breeding habitat may play a significant role in the conservation of grassland bird populations.
We focused on both the entire bird community and on grassland specialists to best understand how factors intrinsic and extrinsic to bioenergy feedstocks may more broadly affect the ability of agricultural landscapes to act as important sources of migratory stopover and post-breeding habitat.
Collectively, these results imply that cultivation of perennial-based biomass feedstocks in less-forested landscapes will be required to enhance habitat for grassland specialists, but that switchgrass and prairie reconstructions can provide post-breeding or migratory stopover habitat for a broad diversity of bird species even when they occur within urbanized or forested landscapes.
We evaluate the ability of two candidate second generation biomass feedstocks (switchgrass, Panicum virgatum, and mixed-grass prairie) not currently managed as crops to act as post-breeding and fall migratory stopover habitat for birds.
