Burnet+Woods

Also, see Burnett Woods Important Bird Area and Cincinnati Birding Drive
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=Burnet Woods= Burnet Woods Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 Burnet Woods webpage Burnet Woods Important Bird Area webpage Burnet Woods trail map

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Burnet Woods
Coordinates: 39.1383157, -84.515934 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Burnet Woods
This 90-acre park near the University of Cincinnati sports hiking trails, a fishing lake, a historic bandstand, playgrounds, shelters, picnic areas, and a disc golf course. The Audubon Society named the park an Important Birding Area.

The park's Trailside Nature Center, located next to the lake, has a nature library, crafts room, meeting space, exhibits and the Wolff Planetarium, which is the oldest planetarium west of the Allegheny Mountains. Twenty people can sit under its intimate dome to view the stars in all seasons and all latitudes. The planetarium may also be reserved for private functions or school groups. From Burnet Woods webpage

About Burnet Woods Important Bird Area
Burnet Woods is a special category IBA. It is deemed important because of the migration ecology studies done in an urban park migrant trap. It is a City of Cincinnati Park, consisting of a matrix of woodlands and lawn, with a small lake and nature center. Ornithological Summary

This is a documented urban migrant trap. Duncan Evered's, master's thesis (1990), "The Influence of Weather on Landbird Ecology During Spring Migration in a Cincinnati Park") demonstrates that migrants recaptured (using mist nets) had gained weight. Results demonstrate the importance of urban stopover for energetic restoration and successful continued migration by neotropical migrants. Burnet Woods, holding a mixture of mature deciduous woodland, scrub areas (and lawn with trees and a pond), appears to have been an urban migrant trap for woodland birds for many years. Worth Randle confirmed reports of unbelievable numbers of migrants by the Stephenson sisters, naturalists with the City of Cincinnati Parks. More than 10 years of formal bird inventories during spring migration have been documented by Stephan Pelikan and David Styer. From Burnet Woods Important Bird Area webpage

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