Glossary
- adaptation
- a trait that promotes survival and reproduction
- boreal forest
- northern forest, often growing on permafrost with little precipitation
- breeding/reproduction
- process of producing and successfully raising young
- conifer
- is a cone-bearing plant.
- conservation
- the management of natural resources so that they will be available for future generations.
- data
- information
- deciduous
- trees that lose their leaves every fall.
- ecosystem
- organisms interacting with their environment and each other.
- environment
- the surroundings that influence an individual's life such as air, water, vegetation, wildlife, etc.
- evergreen
- trees that keep their leaves or needles through the winter.
- glean
- in the case of birds, to collect insects from leaf surfaces.
- habitat
- an environment or surrounding that provides what is needed to live such as food, water, shelter, etc.
- migration
- seasonal movement
- natural resources
- raw materials supplied by the earth and its processes such as nutrients, minerals, water, plants and animals.
- perching
- roosting or standing on something like a branch.
- precipitation
- rain or snow
- recapture
- when a bird has been caught once, was banded and released and caught again within the same year.
- return
- when a bird is recaptured in a year that it was not banded.
- species code
- a four letter code, assigned to each bird based on its common name, used to identify the species when recording data.
- vertebrate
- animals including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish that have a backbone.
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