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Trends from the Breeding Bird Survey in : Scrub or Successional

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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	- 0.6	*	827	- 0.9	*	464	- 0.6	*	770	- 0.5	n	708
Province and Territory
+ Yukon	1.8	*	27	–			2.0	*	27	6.2	*	24
♦ British Columbia	- 0.4		123	- 0.6		68	- 1.0	*	117	- 0.9		103
♦ Alberta	- 0.7	*	143	- 0.6		62	- 1.3	*	138	- 0.5		127
♦ Saskatchewan	- 0.9	n	76	- 0.4		48	- 1.8	*	62	- 2.1		56
♦ Manitoba	0.2		67	- 1.5		36	- 0.1		67	- 0.5		67
Ontario	- 0.4		153	- 0.9	n	80	- 0.2		144	0.5		137
Quebec	- 0.4		124	- 0.2		68	0.0		111	0.0		97
New Brunswick	- 1.0	*	37	- 1.7	*	29	- 0.2		33	0.5		31
Nova Scotia	- 0.8		32	- 1.6		23	- 0.5		32	- 0.7		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	1.8	*	31	–			2.0	*	31	5.6	*	27
♦ Northern Pacific Rainforest	- 1.4	*	37	- 1.9	*	22	- 1.4	n	35	- 0.4		30
♦ Boreal Taiga Plains	- 1.3	*	114	- 1.4		51	- 1.6	*	105	- 1.0	n	97
Boreal Softwood Shield	- 1.0	*	68	- 1.1		46	- 1.6	n	62	- 1.7		54
♦ Great Basin	0.2		26	–			0.0		25	1.8	*	23
♦ Northern Rockies	0.5		66	0.5		35	- 0.7	n	65	- 0.9		59
♦ Prairie Potholes	- 0.1		155	- 0.3		87	- 0.7		142	- 1.2		134
Boreal Hardwood Transition	- 0.7	*	129	- 1.2	n	65	- 0.3		119	0.8		109
Lower Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence Plain	0.1		79	0.2		43	0.2		76	0.2		74
Atlantic Northern Forest	- 0.7	*	109	- 1.4	*	75	- 0.2		102	- 0.2		95

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

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