Monitoring bird abundance on New Zealand pastoral farms

• Main Author: Weller, Florian Gerhard
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2009
• Subjects: agricultural biodiversity; bird monitoring; disrance sampling; national monitoring programme; Banks Peninsula; New Zealand; Alauda arvensis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/200

This thesis describes a two-year case study monitoring the densities of four species of common farmland birds on sheep and beef farms on New Zealand's South Island. The main objectives of the study were twofold: i) to establish baseline population estimates and investigate their seasonal dynami...