Avian Inventory of Ute Mountain, Bureau of Land Management, Taos Resource Area

摘要

In 2005, Hawks Aloft, Inc. began an avian inventory of Ute Mountain, a formerly private property acquired by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in northern Taos County, New Mexico. Avian inventory surveys, consisting of point counts and searches for species of conservation concern, occurred from 2005-2008; point count surveys were reinitiated in 2010. We observed 105 avian species on Ute Mountain, in surrounding sagebrush and grasslands, and in the Rio Grande gorge from 2005-2008, and in 2010. Of these, 81 species were observed during point counts and 24 species were only observed incidentally on the property. We documented the greatest species richness in ponderosa woodland (55 species), followed by pinyon-juniper (51 species), sagebrush (35 species), and grassland (18 species).