Bird Survey Data, External Control Track, Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite, 1998-2010

Five-minute counts of birds (seen or hear) observed during >5 separate visits made each year to each of 20 points located at 50-metre intervals along “Bird Track”. The dataset contains records made initially in 1998 and then annual visits made during the period 2004– 2010. Bird Track sample points serves as an external control for the Silvicultural Systems Trial situated 2 km to the east (see map). The track is situated in primary E. obliqua forest comprising a mix of mature and regrowth trees originating from non-stand-replacing wildfires in 1898 / 1934. The understory is a mosaic of rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest species. A full description of the survey method is given in Lefort and Grove (2009) .