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1 June 2005 MOVEMENTS AND HOME RANGES OF MOUNTAIN PLOVERS RAISING BROODS IN THREE COLORADO LANDSCAPES
VICTORIA J. DREITZ, MICHAEL B. WUNDER, FRITZ L. KNOPF
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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.

VICTORIA J. DREITZ, MICHAEL B. WUNDER, and FRITZ L. KNOPF "MOVEMENTS AND HOME RANGES OF MOUNTAIN PLOVERS RAISING BROODS IN THREE COLORADO LANDSCAPES," The Wilson Bulletin 117(2), 128-132, (1 June 2005). https://doi.org/10.1676/03-116
Received: 14 November 2003; Accepted: 1 February 2005; Published: 1 June 2005
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