R: Abundances of breeding birds in Quacker Run Valley, NY

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## Abundances of breeding birds in Quacker Run Valley, NY

### Description

Number of sights of nesting birds by species in a census in a 16,697 acres Park in New York State, ran in 1936 by A. A. Saunders.

### Usage

    data(birds)

### Format

An unnamed vector of integers

### Details

This is one of the datasets that F. W. Preston used in order to show the application of the lognormal distribution to describe the abundance of species in a sample of a biological community.

### Source

Table IA of Preston (1948), which did not provide species' names.

### References

Preston, F. W. 1948. The Commonness, and rarity, of species. Ecology 29:254-283.

Saunders, A. A. 1936. Studies of breeding birds in the Allegany State Park. New York State Museum Handbook 16. Albany, NY.

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