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Excerpt from Breeding Ecology of Riparian Birds Along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona And finally, the third objective was to examine the nest placement preferences of selected obligate riparian birds in tamarisk to determine if tamarisk was preferred over native plants as a nest site. This was done because it was necessary to determine, after first determining the density and habitat preferences of birds nesting in tamarisk, whether or not the availability of native plants was a limiting factor in determining avian density and habitat preferences. If tamarisk was preferred over native plants as a nest site, this would help to explain why breeding birds could occur in such high densities in tamarisk and why such diverse patterns of habitat selection were observed in tamarisk-dominated communities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.