The composition of wintering bird communities in an agricultural landscape of the Northwestern Dominican Republic

Abstract

Hispaniola, the second largest and most topographically complex island in the Antilles of the Caribbean, is home to a wide variety of habitats for resident birds as well as overwintering migrants from North America. Over three consecutive years, we conducted winter surveys in a remote agricultural region of the northwest Dominican Republic in Dajabon province. We monitored four survey plots, each representing a different habitat common to the study area, including a riparian broadleaf forest, a managed pine stand, a shade coffee plantation, and an abandoned field. We recorded 1,616 detections of 48 avian species...