Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms
ABSTRACT We conducted a designed experiment to test whether having a thermal‐imaging camera available affected researchers' nest detection rates when searching for bird nests in cropland and grassland habitat in an agricultural landscape of Iowa, USA, in 2016. With known active nests present, n...
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| description | ABSTRACT We conducted a designed experiment to test whether having a thermal‐imaging camera available affected researchers' nest detection rates when searching for bird nests in cropland and grassland habitat in an agricultural landscape of Iowa, USA, in 2016. With known active nests present, naïve observers searched for nests with and without a thermal imager available. We did not find a difference in detection probabilities, although only a large difference would have been detectable with our sample size. Extraneous heat signatures from reflected solar radiation and dense vegetation were key factors limiting the usefulness of thermal imagers for locating nests. Published 2019. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3dcbf21201564d67b7635dcd669d054d2025-08-20T02:36:12ZengWileyWildlife Society Bulletin2328-55402019-06-0143230230710.1002/wsb.962Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farmsMatthew D. Stephenson0Lisa A. Schulte1Robert W. Klaver2Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Iowa State University 2310 Pammel Drive, 339 Science Hall II Ames IA 50011‐1031 USADepartment of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Iowa State University 2310 Pammel Drive, 339 Science Hall II Ames IA 50011‐1031 USAIowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit U.S. Geological Survey 2310 Pammel Drive, 338 Science Hall II Ames IA 50011‐1031 USAABSTRACT We conducted a designed experiment to test whether having a thermal‐imaging camera available affected researchers' nest detection rates when searching for bird nests in cropland and grassland habitat in an agricultural landscape of Iowa, USA, in 2016. With known active nests present, naïve observers searched for nests with and without a thermal imager available. We did not find a difference in detection probabilities, although only a large difference would have been detectable with our sample size. Extraneous heat signatures from reflected solar radiation and dense vegetation were key factors limiting the usefulness of thermal imagers for locating nests. Published 2019. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.962detection probabilitygrassland birdsnest searchesnest survivalprairie stripssample size |
| spellingShingle | Matthew D. Stephenson Lisa A. Schulte Robert W. Klaver Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms Wildlife Society Bulletin detection probability grassland birds nest searches nest survival prairie strips sample size |
| title | Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms |
| title_full | Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms |
| title_fullStr | Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms |
| title_short | Quantifying thermal‐imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms |
| title_sort | quantifying thermal imager effectiveness for detecting bird nests on farms |
| topic | detection probability grassland birds nest searches nest survival prairie strips sample size |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.962 |
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