TABLE 2.
Quantity of fecal samples collected and DNA successfully sequenced from 19 bird species.
| Location where bird was captured a | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common name | Scientific name | Crop edge | Crop interior | Prairie edge | Prairie interior | Total samples |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | 5 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 29 |
| Song Sparrow | Melospiza melodia | 3 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 17 |
| Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| Dickcissel | Spiza americana | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| House Wren | Troglodytes aedon | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| American Goldfinch | Carduelis tristis | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Field Sparrow | Spizella pusilla | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Willow Flycatcher | Empidonax traillii | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | Molothrus ater | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker | Dryobates pubescens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | Sturnella magna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Eastern Towhee | Pipilo erythrophthalmus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | Colaptes auratus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 33 | 17 | 46 | 18 | 113 |
a Mist-net effort was unequal between locations. Crop edge includes corn or soybeans within 5 m of the cultivated field edge. Crop interior includes corn or soybeans >5 m from the cultivated field edge. Prairie edge includes prairie habitat within 5 m of the cultivated field edge. Prairie interior includes prairie habitat 5–10 m from the cultivated field edge.