Avian Inventory of Ute Mountain, a Bureau of Land Management Acquisition in Northern New Mexico

摘要

In 2005, we 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. We continued monitoring at Ute Mountain in 2007 to compile an updated avian inventory, based on three summers of point count surveys and searches for species of conservation concern. We observed 96 avian species on Ute Mountain, in surrounding sagebrush and grasslands, and in the Rio Grande gorge from 2005-2007. We documented the greatest species richness in ponderosa woodland (45 species), followed by pinyon-juniper (33 species), sage (21 species), and grassland (10 species).