Potential Breeding Habitat for Forest Birds Suburbs

Studies report that urban areas may not provide breeding habitat for interior-forest birds, but some residential neighborhoods do have sufficient vegetation to serve as forest birds and even specialists. The authors investigated the occurrence of three specialists, pileated woodpeckers, summer tanagers, northern parulas, during season in two suburban Gainesville, Florida, found all species occurred consistently throughout were most often detected local with dense from ground canopy. Our results suggest decision-makers can improve amount southeastern cities these by retaining fragments, tree canopy, large trees, snags, understory vegetation.