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Table of Contents

CIP

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Inventory Group

2.1 Lewis’s Woodpecker
2.2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2.3 Red-naped Sapsucker
2.4 Red-breasted Sapsucker
2.5 Williamson’s Sapsucker
2.6 Downy Woodpecker
2.7 Hairy Woodpecker
2.8 White-headed Woodpecker
2.9 Three-toed Woodpecker
2.10 Black-backed Woodpecker
2.11 Northern Flicker
2.12 Pileated Woodpecker

3. Protocol

3.1 Sampling Standards

3.1.1 Personnel
3.1.2 Controlling for observer bias
3.1.3 Time of day
3.1.4 Time of year
3.1.5 Environmental conditions
3.1.6 Habitat data standards
3.1.7 Survey Design Hierarchy

3.2 Inventory Surveys
3.3 Presence/not detected (possible)

3.3.1 Call Playback Surveys
3.3.2 Wildlife Tree/Sign Surveys

3.4 Relative Abundance

3.4.1 Call Playback Surveys
3.4.2 Wildlife Tree/Sign Surveys

3.5 Absolute Abundance

3.5.1 Spot-mapping
3.5.2 Distance Methods

3.6 Data Analysis

3.6.1 Presence/not detected (possible)
3.6.2 Relative Abundance
3.6.3 Absolute Abundance

Glossary

Literature Cited

List of Figures

Figure 1. RIC species inventory survey design hierarchy example.
Figure 2. Wildlife tree classification system of evergreen trees (Figure from Inventory Technical Committee 1995).
Figure 3. Wildlife tree classification system of deciduous trees (Figure from Inventory Technical Committee 1995).
Figure 4. Sample spot-map and associated symbols for delineating bird territories during the breeding season (from Bibby et al. 1992; Arbib 1970*).

List of Tables

Table 1. Acceptable and unacceptable weather conditions for woodpecker surveys.
Table 2. Types of inventory surveys, the data forms needed, and the level of intensity of the survey.
Table 3. Descriptions of feeding and nesting excavations made by selected woodpecker species.
Table 4. Survey objectives and analysis methods for presence/not detected data
Table 5. Survey objectives and analysis methods for relative abundance data

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