Subject: Re: Olive-sided Flycatcher status
Date: Jan 15 10:18:42 1997
From: Kelly Cassidy - kelly at cqs.washington.edu



I am sruprised at this perception that OS Flycatcher are declining.
I haven't been birding long enough to get an feeling for population
declines or increases, but my impression of their habitat preference
is that they like one very tall tree as a perch. If anything, I've
heard them more often on perches in the midst of patchy forest, but
occassionally in unbroken forest. My guess would have been that
logging has not been detrimental and might even have been beneficial
for them. Perhaps other factors are at work, or perhaps my
non-scientific perception of habitat association is off the mark.

Kelly Cassidy