Demography of reintroduced eastern bluebirds and brown-headed nuthatches
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Published source details
Lloyd J.D., Slater G.L. & Snow S. (2009) Demography of reintroduced eastern bluebirds and brown-headed nuthatches. Journal of Wildlife Management, 73, 955-964.
Published source details Lloyd J.D., Slater G.L. & Snow S. (2009) Demography of reintroduced eastern bluebirds and brown-headed nuthatches. Journal of Wildlife Management, 73, 955-964.
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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.
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A before-and-after study in Florida, USA, reintroduced 47 brown-headed nuthatches Sitta pusilla and 62 eastern bluebirds Sialia sialis to Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, between December 1997 and April 2001 (Lloyd et al. 2009). Although 16 eastern bluebirds and 21 nuthatches failed to establish territories and presumably died shortly after release, population growth was initially observed in both species after the translocations were completed. By 2007, however, the populations of both species were either stable or declining, and only at approximately 10% of their predicted carrying-capacity (200 breeding pairs of each species). Nuthatches and bluebirds were captured at either Big Cypress National Preserve or Naples, Florida, transported and then kept in aviaries at the release site for up to three weeks before reintroduction.
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