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Trends from the Breeding Bird Survey in : Urban or Suburban

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Area	1970–2009 ♦ 1973–2009 + 1986–2009			1970–1989 ♦ 1973–1989			1989–2009			1999–2009
	Trend	P	N	Trend	P	N	Trend	P	N	Trend	P	N
Canada	- 1.0	*	827	- 0.7	*	464	- 0.8	*	770	- 1.3	*	708
Province and Territory
+ Yukon	0.8		27	–			0.1		27	0.1		24
♦ British Columbia	- 1.8	*	123	- 1.4	*	68	- 1.7	*	117	- 1.7	*	103
♦ Alberta	- 0.5		143	- 0.1		62	0.4		138	- 0.7		127
♦ Saskatchewan	- 2.0	*	76	- 1.7	*	48	- 1.5	*	62	- 0.9		56
♦ Manitoba	- 1.1	*	67	- 1.0		36	- 1.4	*	67	- 0.4		67
Ontario	- 0.9	*	153	- 0.6		80	- 0.7	*	144	- 1.4	*	137
Quebec	- 0.5	*	124	0.2		68	- 0.8	*	111	- 1.8	*	97
New Brunswick	- 0.7	*	37	- 1.4	*	29	- 0.6		33	- 2.6	*	31
Nova Scotia	0.2		32	- 1.4		23	0.4		32	- 1.4		29
Bird Conservation Regions (BCR)	1970–2009 ♦ 1973–2009 + 1986–2009			1970–1989 ♦ 1973–1989			1989–2009			1999–2009
	Trend	P	N	Trend	P	N	Trend	P	N	Trend	P	N
+ Northwestern Interior Forest	0.9		31	–			0.2		31	0.1		27
♦ Northern Pacific Rainforest	- 2.0	*	37	- 0.1		22	- 1.9	n	35	- 3.1	*	30
♦ Boreal Taiga Plains	- 1.5	*	114	- 1.0		51	- 1.6	*	105	- 1.7	*	97
Boreal Softwood Shield	- 0.6		68	1.2		46	- 2.3	*	62	- 3.0	*	54
♦ Great Basin	- 0.9	n	26	–			- 1.3	*	25	- 0.9		23
♦ Northern Rockies	- 1.6	*	66	- 2.0	*	35	- 1.3	*	65	- 1.1		59
♦ Prairie Potholes	- 1.0	*	155	- 1.0		87	0.1		142	- 0.1		134
Boreal Hardwood Transition	- 0.9	*	129	- 0.3		65	- 1.1	*	119	- 1.8	*	109
Lower Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence Plain	- 0.6	*	79	- 0.6		43	- 0.4		76	- 0.8		74
Atlantic Northern Forest	- 0.6	*	109	- 1.3	*	75	- 0.5		102	- 1.9	*	95

Annual indices of population change for the Urban or Suburban in Canada based on Breeding Bird Survey data (1970 - 2009)

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