About the location of my field trip was Winnipeg, Manitoba, via Kings Park at the University of Manitoba. On January 2, 2025, between 9:27 a.m. and 11:52 a.m. local time. The temperature was minus 15 degrees. It was cloudy and very cold. The species I have observed are the distribution of all bird activity that occurred during this time period. I wanted to explore the distribution of birds in response to extreme weather. The areas I chose to observe were wooded areas, shrub areas, and man-made lake areas. According to the overall distribution of the park, the forest area is the main area, which is wrapped around the artificial lake area and the shrub area, and the shrub area is shrub area within 160 meters of the entrance of the park, and the shrub area is composed of low landscape shrubs. In the middle of the park is the area of the artificial lake (next to the scrub area. I chose these three areas for the distribution of birds. The bush area is more densely populated by human activity because of the proximity to the parking lot. The surface of the lake in the artificial lake area is frozen, and the forest area is inaccessible, and there are very, very few human footprints, which can be regarded as basically non-existent. I will use visual and counting methods to determine whether the population in that area is more dense to determine whether human activities are negatively affecting the distribution of birds.
Based on my learning experience, I would like to make the following hypothesis：
The birds of Kings park are not affected by human activity in the city park during the winter.My prediction is that there is more activity of birds in human-dependent areas, based on the birds’ demand for human food, and the difficulty of foraging birds in extreme temperatures, which leads to the interest of birds in the fifteen residues of human trash cans.
Response variables: Bird species distribution i.e. species density in each region
Explanatory variables: The distribution of plants