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A Comparative Vertebrate Ecology of Typical and Atypical Oak Areas

Purpose

1) What types of vegetation invade such wet locations (wet oak areas) 2) Find out what the effects of this situation are on the vertebrate animals as to species distribution and activities.

Project Start Date
1942-08-01
Project End Date
1943-05-01
Related Publications
Livezey, Robert. A Comparative Vertebrate Ecology of Typical and Atypical Oak Areas. M.S. Thesis, May 1943, Oregon State College, Department of Zoology.
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Vertebrate Ecology
Keywords
  • comparative
  • compare
  • vertebrate
  • vertebrates
  • ecology
  • eco
  • oak
  • woodland
  • savannah
  • quercus
  • oaks
  • wetland
  • fish
  • mammal
  • fishes
  • mammals
  • bird
  • birds
  • reptiles
  • reptile
  • lizards
  • lizard
  • frog
  • aquatic
  • zoology
  • zoological
  • Robert Livezey
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSC- Zoology
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Livezey, Robert
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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Import Unique ID
35
Project ID
35

Feeding Behavior of Energetic Birds

Purpose

Studying the energetic birds with respect to feeding behavior.

Project Start Date
1977-11-25
Project End Date
1978-04-25
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • Feeding
  • feed
  • behavior
  • bird
  • birds
  • energetic
  • Rob DeWoskin
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
DeWoskin, Rob
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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Import Unique ID
122
Project ID
122

Acclimatization in Winter in Dark-eyed Juncos

Purpose

A study to determine adjustments in insulative capacity, metabolic rate, and hemoglobin affinity for oxygen in response to winter acclimatization in the dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis oreganus.

Project Start Date
1985-03-01
Project End Date
1990-06-01
Related Publications
Swanson, David L. Seasonal Variation in Cold Hardiness and Peak Rates of Cold-induced Thermogenesis in the Dark-Eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). The Auk 107 (July). 1990
Swanson, David. Seasonal Variation of Vascular Oxygen Transport in the Dark-Eyed Junco. The Condor, 92: 62-66,1989
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • Acclimatization
  • winter
  • dark-eyed
  • junco
  • juncos
  • dark
  • eyed
  • bird
  • birds
  • insulative
  • capacity
  • metabolism
  • metabolic
  • hemoglobin
  • oxygen
  • hyemalis oreganus
  • aves
  • passeriformes
  • John Ruben
  • David Swanson
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Ruben, John A.
Role
C
Collaborators
Swanson, David
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Import Unique ID
225
Project ID
225

T.V Tower Bird Mortality During Migration Periods

Purpose

In two months, under different weather and lunar conditions, the quantity and species of birds killed at two TV towers will be recorded.

Project Start Date
1985-10-01
Project End Date
1985-12-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • TV
  • tower
  • bird
  • birds
  • mortality
  • death
  • migration
  • migratory
  • period
  • periods
  • weather
  • kill
  • killed
  • towers
  • Robert Jarvis
  • Katherine Loofburrow
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Jarvis, Robert L.
Role
C
Collaborators
Loofburrow, Katherine
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228
Project ID
228

Use of Nest Structures by Wildlife in Managed Forest

Purpose

Research project is aimed to determine: (1). If nest structures for cavity-nesting wildlife will be used in young managed stands. (2). To compare use by primary and secondary cavity nesters of structures filled with sawdust (requiring excavation) with e

Project Start Date
1987-11-01
Project End Date
1988-07-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • nest
  • nesting
  • nests
  • wildlife
  • manage
  • managed
  • bird
  • birds
  • cavity
  • cavities
  • Bill McComb
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
McComb, Bill
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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252
Project ID
252

Metabolism Rates of S.Rufus During Torpor

Purpose

I would like to set up Hummingbird feeders to attract Rufus Hummingbirds. Then I would like to try to live capture them by setting up a mist-net in front of the feeders. Specimen are needed for metabolism measurements. Federal and state collection per

Project Start Date
1988-08-16
Project End Date
1988-08-16
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • metabolism
  • metabolic
  • rate
  • rates
  • rufus
  • torpor
  • hummingbird
  • bird
  • birds
  • mist
  • net
  • nets
  • netting
  • Selaphorus
  • Christine Mallette
  • John Ruben
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Mallette, Christine
Role
C
Collaborators
Ruben, John A.
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Import Unique ID
260
Project ID
260

Monitoring Snag Use and Dynamics in Clearcuts

Purpose

Mark and reexamine each snag in each clearcut annually to document fall rates, decay rates and bird use of snags in managed stands.

Project Start Date
1990-06-01
Project End Date
2000-06-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Slash & Decomposition
Keywords
  • monitor
  • monitoring
  • snag
  • snags
  • deadwood
  • downwood
  • wood
  • dynamics
  • clearcut
  • clear
  • clearcuts
  • decay
  • bird
  • birds
  • Bill McComb
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
McComb, Bill
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
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Import Unique ID
278
Project ID
278

Creating Topped Snags with Herbicides

Purpose

To determine if trees topped with a herbicide will be used by cavity-nesting birds. Each tree will be treated and revisited annually to determine treatment effectiveness.

Project Start Date
1990-06-01
Project End Date
2000-06-01
Related Publications
Chambers, Carol., Carrigan, Tara, Sabin, Thomas, Tappeiner, John, McComb, William. Use of Artificially Created Douglas-Fir Snags by Cavity-Nesting Birds.
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Slash & Decomposition
Keywords
  • create
  • creating
  • top
  • topped
  • snag
  • snags
  • herbicide
  • herbicides
  • chemical
  • chemicals
  • cavity
  • cavities
  • bird
  • birds
  • treatment
  • treatments
  • Bill McComb
  • Michael Newton
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
McComb, Bill
Role
C
Collaborators
Newton, Michael
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Import Unique ID
279
Project ID
279

Northern Pygmy Owl Density in McDonald Forest

Purpose

This project is designed to correlate owl abundance to a stand type and to get a baseline on owl numbers. Twenty monitoring stations will be set up along the main road. Eight minutes at each site for 2 days a week .5 hours before sunrise until 10:00 a.m

Project Start Date
1992-03-31
Project End Date
1992-04-28
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • northern pygmy owl
  • owls
  • denisty
  • densities
  • mcdonald
  • Glaucidium californicum
  • bird
  • birds
  • wildlife
  • John Crawford
  • Johnson
  • Dave
  • Quick
  • Brian
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Crawford, John A.
Role
C
Collaborators
Johnson, Dave; Quick, Brian
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Import Unique ID
302
Project ID
302

Use of nest boxes by Brown Creepers: a trial study

Purpose

To see if the Brown Creepers will use nest boxes by august of 2000.

Project Start Date
1998-05-01
Project End Date
2000-08-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Birds
Keywords
  • nest
  • nests
  • nesting
  • box
  • boxes
  • Brown Creeper
  • Creepers
  • bird
  • birds
  • Certhia americana
  • passeriformes
  • Jennifer Weikel
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Weikel, Jennifer
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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Import Unique ID
356
Project ID
356

Band-tailed Pigeon

Purpose

Estimate abundance and distribution of band-tailed pigeons. Counts of cooing pigeons will be conducted at random points in the forest.

Project Start Date
1999-04-23
Project End Date
1999-09-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • Band-tailed
  • band-tail
  • band
  • tail
  • tailed
  • pigeon
  • pigeons
  • bird
  • birds
  • distribution
  • distributions
  • Patagioenas fasciata
  • columbidae
  • Todd Sanders
  • Robert Jarvis
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Sanders, Todd A.
Role
PI
Collaborators
Jarvis, Robert L.
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Import Unique ID
364
Project ID
364

Linkages among understory vegetation, arthropods, and birds

Purpose

Will involve estimating bird abundance with point counts, capturing birds to collect information on fitness, diet and sampling shrubs for arthropods.

Project Start Date
1999-05-01
Project End Date
1999-08-31
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Environmental Factors
  • Vegetation
Keywords
  • linkages
  • linkage
  • understory
  • vegetation
  • athropods
  • arthropod
  • bird
  • birds
  • trophic
  • shrub
  • shrubs
  • insect
  • insects
  • abudance
  • capture
  • capturing
  • fitness
  • diet
  • Joan Hagar
  • Starkey
  • Ed
  • John Tappeiner
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Hagar, Joan
Role
PI
Collaborators
Starkey, Ed; Tappeiner, John
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353
Project ID
353

Snags and Reserved Green Trees: Mortality Rates and Primary Cavity Nester Use

Purpose

Follow up study on bird use of CFIRP snags, snag and green tree retention.

Project Start Date
2001-06-01
Project End Date
2002-01-01
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Birds
Keywords
  • snag
  • snags
  • downed
  • decay
  • mortality
  • rate
  • rates
  • cavity
  • cavities
  • nest
  • nests
  • nesting
  • nester
  • retention
  • CFIRP
  • bird
  • birds
  • Christine Maguire
  • Scott Walters
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
Oregon State University
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Maguire, Christine
Role
PI
Collaborators
Walters, Scott
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Import Unique ID
374
Project ID
374

Influence of Alternative Silvicultural Practices on Songbirds

Purpose

To determine the relative influences of clearcutting and two uneven age management approaches on abundance and diversity of songbird populations in western Oregon. Using the CFIRP sites that are in Chambers et al. 1999, to see if structural development as

Project Start Date
2002-04-15
Project End Date
2002-08-15
Related Publications
N/A
Project Categories
  • Logging
  • Post-harvest Effects
Keywords
  • alternative
  • alternatives
  • silvics
  • silviculture
  • silvicultural
  • practices
  • practices
  • songbird
  • bird
  • birds
  • song
  • uneven
  • age
  • aged
  • clear
  • cut
  • CFIRP
  • Chambers
  • Margo Stoddard
  • John Hayes
Additional Information
Currently Active
Yes
Agency
OSU Forest Science
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Stoddard, Margo
Role
PI
Collaborators
Hayes, John P.
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Import Unique ID
381
Project ID
381

Artificial Inoculation of Decay Fungi into Douglas-fir with Rifle and Shotgun to Produce Wildlife Trees in Western Oregon

Purpose

To evaluate the effectiveness of innoculating primarily Douglas-fir trees with rifles and shotguns. Effectiveness will be measured by the incidence of foraging and cavity formation by birds and by the presence of wood decay as indicated by fungal conks. T

Project Start Date
2002-05-12
Project End Date
2002-12-31
Related Publications
Filip, Gregory M., et al. Technical Note—Artificial Inoculation of Decay Fungi into Douglas-Fir with Rifle or Shotgun to Produce Wildlife Trees in Western Oregon. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 19.3 (2004): 211-215.
Project Categories
  • Forest Management
  • Slash & Decomposition
Keywords
  • artificial
  • inoculate
  • inoculation
  • decay
  • fungi
  • fungus
  • fungal
  • pathogen
  • pathogens
  • douglas-fir
  • douglas fir
  • pseudotsuga menziesii
  • rifle
  • gun
  • shotgun
  • guns
  • snag
  • snags
  • mortality
  • cavity
  • cavities
  • bird
  • birds
  • conk
  • conks
  • Greg Filip
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
OSU Forest Sciences
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Filip, Greg
Role
PI
Collaborators
N/A
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Import Unique ID
380
Project ID
380

Purple Martin Conservation Project

Purpose

Conservation and monitoring of the purple martin colony in the McDonald-Dunn forest

Project Start Date
2010-03-01
Project End Date
2013-09-01
Related Publications
Vesely, David Conserving Purple Martin's in OSU's Mcdonald-Dunn Research Forest: Final Project Report.
Project Categories
  • Wildlife
  • Birds
Keywords
  • bird
  • birds
  • aves
  • Purple Martin
  • conservation
  • colony
  • colonies
  • Progne subis
  • swallow
  • swallows
  • Hirundinidae
  • wildlife
  • OWI
  • David Vesely
Additional Information
Currently Active
No
Agency
Oregon Wildlife Institute
Project Type
Research
Research Forest
N/A
Researcher
Vesely, David
Role
C
Collaborators
N/A
Debug Fields
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Import Unique ID
427
Project ID
427

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