Non-brooding northern bobwhite resource selection during breeding season in a managed longleaf pine ecosystem

Investigating resource selection patterns of declining species is critical to developing effective conservation strategies and mitigating negative population trends. We trapped and radio-collared northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and recorded the location of each individual three times per week during the northern bobwhite breeding season (April – September) to infer resource selection by non-brooding adults. We defined 13 vegetation communities with varying fire histories and assessed their relative use via a distance-based logistic regression model within a Bayesian framework. We found reliable evidence that non-brooding northern bobwhite preferred supplemental feed lines, recently burned natural pine stands, one-year rough in shrub/scrub, and one-year rough in hardwood-pine stands. Conversely, we found they avoided one-year rough in natural pine stands, recently burned shrub/scrub, and recently burned hardwood-pine stands. Our data suggest that non-brooding bobwhite’s successio..., We determined locations of non-brooding bobwhite three times per week during the breeding season to infer third-order resource selection by non-brooding adults. We calculated bobwhite utilization distributions using the 95% fixed kernel density estimator, and generated 10 random points for each known point within each bobwhite's utilization distribution. We defined 13 land cover types and used a distance-based approach within a Bayesian framework to infer resource selection., , # Data from: Non-brooding northern bobwhite resource selection during breeding season in a managed longleaf pine ecosystem

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z3m5](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z3m5)

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset supports a study examining resource selection of non-brooding adult northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) during the breeding season (April–September) at a longleaf pine research site in Georgia, USA. We radio-collared bobwhite and collected locations three times per week to assess third-order selection across 13 defined vegetation communities with different fire histories.

We used a distance-based approach within a Bayesian logistic regression framework to evaluate relative habitat use.

#### File Description

Bobwhite Location Data
Summer2022Locs.xlsx

##### Summer2023Locs.xlsx

Each Excel spreadsheet contains location data for non-brooding bobwhite adults recorded during the 2022 and 2023 breeding seasons.

Columns in...,