Comparisons of wintering bird communities in mature pine stands managed byprescribed burning

We compared the effects of growing season and dormant season prescribed fir e on the winter bird communities in mature pine stands on Fort Benning Mili tary Reservation, Georgia. We surveyed the avian community using fixed-radi us point counts from 1 December 1995 to 28 February 1996, one year after bu rning. We detected no differences in mean bird abundance or species richnes s between burn treatments. No species was observed more or less frequently in either burn treatment. Season of burn had little apparent effect on the composition of wintering bird communities in managed mature pine forests.