Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Wilson Bulletin
Publisher
Wilson Ornithological Society
Publication Date
6-2005
Volume
117
Disciplines
Life Sciences
Abstract
We report movements and home-range sizes of adult Mountain Plovers (Charadrius montanus) with broods on rangeland, agricultural fields, and prairie dog habitats in eastern Colorado. Estimates of home range size (95% fixed kernel) were similar across the three habitats: rangeland (146.1 ha +/- 101.5), agricultural fields (131.6 ha +/- 74.4), and prairie dog towns (243.3 ha +/- 366.3). Our minimum convex polygon estimates of home-range size were comparable to those on rangeland reported by Knopf and Rupert (1996). In addition, movements - defined as the distance between consecutive locations of adults with broods - were equivalent across habitats. However, our findings on prairie dog habitat suggest that home-range size for brood rearing may be related to whether the prairie dog habitat is in a complex of towns or in an isolated town.
Keywords
mountain plovers
Recommended Citation
Dreitz, Victoria J.; Wunder, Michael B.; and Knopf, Fritz L., "Movements and Home Ranges of Mountain Plovers Raising Broods in Three Colorado Landscapes" (2005). Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications. 64.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/wildbio_pubs/64