Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of small clearcuts on breeding bird communities found in adjacent forest stands. The study was conducted in a deer yard of the Duchenier Wildlife Preserve located in the boreal balsam fir-yellow birch ecological domain of eastern Quebec. The balsam fir-northern white cedar stands of the deer yard had been treated by strip cutting 2 years before the study. Total abundance of nesting passerines in stands adjacent to 60-m-wide strip cuttings was greater (P = 0.10) than in similar control unlogged stands. The establishment of shrub strata within the strip probably provided an additional food source for shrub- and ground-feeding species without significantly affecting canopy-feeding species.
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