Table 2. Body size and habitat niche breadth for 12 species of resident North American breeding birds.
Common Name | Number of land cover types used | ln (mass) |
Wild turkey | 9 | 9.31 |
Greater sage grouse | 1 | 8.01 |
Greater prairie chicken | 2 | 6.91 |
Gambel’s quail | 3 | 5.30 |
Red-headed woodpecker | 10 | 4.32 |
Red-bellied woodpecker | 8 | 4.32 |
Fish crow | 6 | 5.71 |
Carolina chickadee | 1 | 2.49 |
Carolina wren | 5 | 2.99 |
Bewick’s wren | 7 | 2.43 |
Bachman’s sparrow | 2 | 3.12 |
Tricolored blackbird | 2 | 4.09 |
Trait data were obtained from online natural history databases.