Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013

• Main Authors: Daniel J. Metcalfe, Eric Vanderduys
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: TERN Australia 2014
• Subjects: Birds; Grazing domestic livestock; 0501 Ecological Applications; 0602 Ecology; Earth Science > Biological Classification > Animals/Vertebrates > Birds; Acanthagenys rufogularis; Acanthiza apicalis; Acanthiza chrysorrhoa; Aegotheles cristatus; Aprosmictus erythropterus; Aquila audax; Ardeotis australis; Artamus cinereus; Cacatua galerita; Cacomantis pallidus; Calyptorhynchus banksii; Chrysococcyx basalis; Chrysococcyx lucidus; Cincloramphus mathewsi; Climacteris picumnus; Colluricincla harmonica; Coracina maxima; Coracina novaehollandiae; Coracina papuensis; Corvus coronoides; Cracticus nigrogularis; Cracticus tibicen; Cracticus torquatus; Daphoenositta chrysoptera; Dicaeum hirundinaceum; Eolophus roseicapillus; Epthianura tricolor; Falco berigora; Falco cenchroides; Falco longipennis; Falco peregrinus; Geopelia humeralis; Geopelia striata; Gerygone albogularis; Gerygone fusca; Grallina cyanoleuca; Haliastur sphenurus; Hamirostra melanosternon; Lalage sueurii; Lichenostomus plumulus; Lichenostomus virescens; Lichmera indistincta; Malurus lamberti; Malurus melanocephalus; Manorina flavigula; Melanodryas cucullata; Melopsittacus undulatus; Merops ornatus; Microeca fascinans; Milvus migrans; Myiagra inquieta; Nymphicus hollandicus; Ocyphaps lophotes; Oreoica gutturalis; Oriolus sagittatus; Pachycephala rufiventris; Pardalotus rubricatus; Pardalotus striatus; Petroica goodenovii; Phaps chalcoptera; Philemon citreogularis; Philemon corniculatus; Platycercus adscitus; Plectorhyncha lanceolata; Pomatostomus temporalis; Ptilonorhynchus maculatus; Rhipidura albiscapa; Rhipidura leucophrys; Smicrornis brevirostris; Struthidea cinerea; Sugomel niger; Tachyglossus aculeatus; Taeniopygia bichenovii; Taeniopygia guttata; Trichoglossus haematodus; Zosterops lateralis; Queensland
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.145.26/html

The LTERN Desert Uplands Plot Network Bird Count Data contains bird fauna data for 50 permanent 1 hectare plots (60 prior to 2008) in Northern Queensland, Australia. This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 2004 to 2013. The CSIRO permanent plots are situated in Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, and extend across four leasehold cattle properties that lie within an area approximately 50km by 50km. The plots represent three vegetation management strategies, namely: 1) clearing (where all trees and shrubs are removed); 2) thinning (where ground and mid-storey vegetation is removed); and 3) unmodified native woodlands where significant thinning or clearing has not occurred. Within each 1 ha site, eight five-minute diurnal bird counts are conducted over a four day period. Two counts are completed per day at each site: one count in the morning within three hours of sunrise and the other a minimum of three hours after this period and before sunset. The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2013. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Desert Uplands Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-uplands