Nest site locations of breeding birds in the Wassuk Range, Sweetwater Mountains, and east slope of the Sierra Nevada, Nevada and California

These data document nest site locations of breeding birds in canyons throughout three mountain ranges in the western Great Basin (Mineral, Douglas, and Lyon Counties, Nevada; and Alpine and Mono Counties, California): the Wassuk Range, Sweetwater Mountains, and east slope of the Sierra Nevada. Data were collected during the breeding season from 2016 through 2018, inclusive. Nests were found using standard nest search protocols. Data include coordinates of each nest, species of bird, identification and measurement of nest substrate, and date of detection.
Data were collected to examine relations between previously collected detection data from point count surveys and nest locations. Data also were collected to examine vegetation associations with nest site selection at multiple spatial scales. Knowledge about the ability of detection data to predict nesting and provide inference about environmental variables correlated with nesting has implications for management actions.
Additional data are available from the Forest Service Research Data Archive (see Cross-References below): birds detected during point counts; various measurements of vegetation at each point.