Positive association between forest management, environmental change, and forest bird abundance

Schulze, Ernst Detlef; Craven, Dylan; Durso, Andrew M.; Reif, Jiri; Guderle, Marcus; Kroiher, Franz; Hennig, Petra; Weiserbs, Anne; Schall, Peter; Ammer, Christian; Eisenhauer, Nico

doi:10.1186/s40663-019-0160-8

Forest Ecosystems

Table 1 Forest bird species of central Europe, and of the northeastern USA (National Audubon Society 2018), and a list of species that are used as indicator in Germany (Bundesamt für Naturschutz 2015). All available data and species were used

From: Positive association between forest management, environmental change, and forest bird abundance

Forest specialist bird species of central Europe		Regionally-migrating bird species of central Europe		Continentally-migrating forest birds of central Europe
Certhia brachydactyla	Short-toed Treecreeper	Carduelis spinus	Eurasian Siskin	Anthus trivialis	Tree Pipit
Dendrocopos major	Great Spotted Woodpecker	Coccottraustes coccothraustes	Hawfinch	Ficedula hypoleuca	Pied Flycatcher
Dendrocopos martius	Black Woodpecker	Columba oenas	Stock Dove	Phoenicurus phoenicurus	Common Redstart
Dendrocopos medius	Middle Spotted Woodpecker	Parus ater	Coal Tit	Phylloscopus sibilatrix	Wood Warbler
Dendrocopos minor	Lesser Spotted Woodpecker	Parus cristatus	Crested Tit
Garrulus glandarius	Eurasian Jay	Phylloscopus collybita	Common Chiffchaff
Parus caeruleus^a	Eurasian Blue Tit	Regulus ignicapilla	Firecrest
Parus major^a	Great Tit	Regulus regulus	Goldcrest
Parus palustris	Marsh Tit	Turdus viscivorus	Mistle Thrush
Picus canus	Grey-headed Woodpecker
Pyrrhula pyrrhula	Bullfinch
Sitta europea	Eurasian Nuthatch
Forest specialist bird species of the northeastern USA		Bundesamt für Naturschutz indicator bird species
Certhia americana	Brown Creeper	Aquila pomerina	Lesser Spotted Eagle
Cyanocitta cristata	Blue Jay	Ciconia nigra	Black Stork
Dryobates pubescens	Downy Woodpecker	Dryocopus martius	Black Woodpecker
Dryocopus pileatus	Pileated Woodpecker	Dryocopus medius	Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Leuconotopicus villosus	Hairy Woodpecker	Dryocopus minor	Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Poecile atricapillatus	Black-capped Chickadee	Parus ater	Coal Tit
Regulus atrapa	Golden-crowned Kinglet	Parus montanus	Willow Tit
Sitta canadensis	Red-breasted Nuthatch	Parus palustris	Marsh Tit
Sitta carolinensis	White-breasted Nuthatch	Phylloscopus sibilatrix	Wood Warbler
Zonotrichia albicollis	White-throated Sparrow	Picus canus	Grey-headed Woodpecker
		Sitta europaea	Eurasian Nuthatch

^aindicates regionally migrating species with long-term observations (Berndt and Winkel 1979; Winkel 2002)

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