Movements and home ranges of Mountain Plovers raising broods in three Colorado landscapes

Victoria J. Dreitz; Michael B. Wunder; Fritz L. Knopf

doi:10.1676/03-116

Movements and home ranges of Mountain Plovers raising broods in three Colorado landscapes

Victoria J. Dreitz, Michael B. Wunder, Fritz L. Knopf

W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	128-132
Number of pages	5
Journal	Wilson Bulletin
Volume	117
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1676/03-116
State	Published - Jun 2005

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