Effects of the CZU Lightning Complex Fire on Hermit Thrushes of Big Basin Redwoods State Park

From August 2020 through July 2021, the CZU Lightning Complex fire burned 97% of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in California. The fire burned at high severity levels in areas where Hermit Thrushes were known to breed. Allison R. Paules Nelson, founder and director of Gold Country Avian Studies, discusses her past geolocator tracking studies on Hermit Thrushes breeding in Big Basin, as well as those wintering at SFBBO’s Coyote Creek Field Station, and how she used this previous capture data to compare the pre-fire population to numbers observed post-fire in summer 2021.
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Living in Felton! I've seen Hermit Thrushes a few times now in my backyard this fall, hoping there's a nest somewhere!