Residues of organochlorine pesticides, mercury, and PCB's in mourning doves from eastern United States--1970-71
J.F. Kreitzer
1974, Pesticides Monitoring Journal (7) 195-199
Mourning dove (Zenaidura macroura) breast muscle samples from birds collected in 1970-71 from Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida were found to contain residues of DDT, DDE, DDD, polychlorinated biphenyls, dieldrin, mirex, mercury, and heptachlor epoxide in...
Breeding red-winged blackbirds in captivity
C.J. Know, A.R. Stickley Jr.
1974, The Auk (91) 808-816
Ability to establish and maintain self-sustaining breeding colonies of captive Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) would facilitate long-term studies designed to develop methods for alleviating blackbird depredations as well as provide basic life history data. To be most useful, the colonies should be established in pens near laboratory facilities; this frequently...
Avian eggshell thickness: Variability and sampling
Erwin E. Klaas, H. M. Ohlendorf, R.G. Heath
1974, The Wilson Bulletin (86) 156-164
Measurements of shell thickness of the eggs of five species were subjected to nested analyses of variance. The analyses separated variation into two or three levels for which variances and percentages of the total variation were derived. The results show that differences among measurements of the same egg contribute little...
The effect of sublethal dosages of five pesticides and a polychlorinated biphenyl on the avoidance response of coturnix quail chicks
J.F. Kreitzer, G. H. Heinz
1974, Environmental Pollution (6) 21-29
Coturnix quail (Coturnix coturnix) chicks were given sublethal amounts of chlordane, dieldrin, endrin, DDE, Ceresan M, or Aroclor 1254 (a polychlorinated biphenyl) in their feed, beginning at seven days of age, and their avoidance response to a moving silhouette was measured daily for fourteen days. The birds were on dosage...
Chlorinated hydrocarbon and mercury residues in woodcock in the United States, 1970-71
D. R. Clark Jr., M. Anne Ross McLane
1974, Pesticides Monitoring Journal (8) 15-22
During Late 1970 and early 1971, 229 woodcock (Philohela minor) were collected from 23 Eastern and Midwestern States. Analyses for chlorinated hydrocarbons and mercury in these migratory birds showed generally low levels which are not considered dangerous to human consumers. In this survey, Louisiana woodcock had lower...
Progress report on the North American Breeding Bird Survey
C.S. Robbins, W.T. Van Velzen
1974, Acta Ornithologica (14) 170-191
The Breeding Bird Survey has been monitoring bird population changes in the U.S.A. and Canada since 1966. Each cooperator makes 50 3-minute stops at 0.8-km intervals along randomly selected roadside routes in 4 to 4 1/2 hours on one morning in June of each year. Data from the 1500 to...
Effects of DDT on bobwhite quail adrenal gland
J.W. Lehman, T.J. Peterle, C.M. Mulls
1974, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (11) 407-414
A wide range of responses to sublethal levels of DDT exist, many of which are species specific and vary within each species depending upon age, sex, and physiological state. Sublethal levels of DDT do cause an increase in the adrenal cortical tissue of bobwhite quail, which may cause increased secretion...
Optimal exploitation strategies for an animal population in a stochastic serially correlated environment
David R. Anderson
1974, Dissertation Abstracts International (35) 3107
Optimal exploitation strategies were studied for an animal population in a stochastic, serially correlated environment. This is a general case and encompasses a number of important cases as simplifications. Data on the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) were used to explore the exploitation strategies and test several hypotheses because relatively...
The winter bird survey of central Maryland, U.S.A
C.S. Robbins, D. Bystrak
1974, Acta Ornithologica (14) 254-271
A method for monitoring changes in winter bird populations was tested in central Maryland in the winters of 1970, 1971 and 1972. A systematic sample of 41 transects was established to sample an area of 6150 sq. km. Each transect, located at the center of a standard 7 1/2-minute topographic...
The breeding bird atlas of Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
M. K. Klimkiewicz, C.S. Robbins
1974, Acta Ornithologica (14) 446-458
A two-year Breeding Bird Atlas program for Montgomery County was undertaken by the Maryland Ornithological Society in 1971-1972. The county was divided into 65 5 km blocks and each block was assigned to an observer. Preliminary results show 46 to 93 species (mean 66) recorded per 5 km...
Percutaneous absorption of several chemicals, some pesticides included, in the red-winged blackbird
J.G. Rogers Jr., R.H. Cagan, M.R. Kare
1974, Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry (4) 104-111
Percutaneous absorption in vivo through the skin of the feet of the red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) has been investigated. Absorption after 18-24 hours exposure to 0.01 M solutions of salicylic acid, caffeine, urea, 2,4-D, dieldrin, diethylstilbesterol, and DDT was measured. Of these, only DDT and diethylstilbesterol were not...
Mammals imported into the United States in 1972
R. B. Clapp
1974, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 181
Relationships between chemical structure and rat repellency: II. compounds screened between 1950 and 1960
Walter A. Bowles, V. A. Adomaitis, J.B. DeWitt, J.J. Pratt Jr.
1974, Technical Report 75-11-FEL.
Over 4,600 compounds, chiefly organic types, were evaluated using both a food acceptance test (Part A) and a barrier penetration bioassay (Part B), to correlate relationships between chemical structure and rodent repellency. These chemicals are indexed and classified according to the functional groups present and to the degree of substitution...
Effects of urbanization and type of urban development on bird populations
A. D. Geis
J.H. Noyes, D.R. Progulske, editor(s)
1974, Book chapter, A Symposium on Wildlife in an Urbanizing Environment
Diseases and parasites in urban wildlife
L. N. Locke
J.H. Noyes, D.R. Progulske, editor(s)
1974, Book chapter, A Symposium on Wildlife in an Urbanizing Environment.
Environmental effects
D. coordinator Pimentel coordinator, E. Kenaga, F.W. Slife, H. Mooney, R.E. Odum, L. Stickel
1974, Book chapter, Herbicide Report. Chemistry and Analysis, Environmental Effects, Agriculture and other Applied Uses
Research on shore and upland migratory birds in New Jersey: Clapper rail studies: 1974 final report
R.E. Mangold
1974, Book
Optimal exploitation strategies for an animal population in a stochastic serially correlated environment
David R. Anderson
1974, Book
Optimal exploitation strategies were studied for an animal population in a stochastic, serially correlated environment. This is a general case and encompasses a number of important cases as simplifications. Data on the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) were used to explore the exploitation strategies and test several hypotheses because relatively...
The National Center of the U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Report
In August of 1973, the U. S. Geological Survey moved its first group of employees into the John Wesley Powell Federal Building of its newly constructed National Center at Reston, Virginia. The move signaled the fruition of more than a decade of planning and work to consolidate the agency's widespread...
An Anvilian (early pleistocene) marine fauna from western Seward Peninsula, Alaska
D.M. Hopkins, R.W. Rowland, R.E. Echols, P. C. Valentine
1974, Quaternary Research (4) 441-470
Cover sediments of the York Terrace exposed near the California River, western Seward Peninsula, Alaska, yield mollusks, ostracodes, and foraminifera that lived during the Anvilian transgression of early Pleistocene age. The fossiliferous sediments lie at the inner edge of the York Terrace, a...
Quaternary deposits in southwestern Afghanistan
G.I. Smith
1974, Quaternary Research (4) 39-52
Geologic evidence in the closed Seistan Basin of southwestern Afghanistan and adjacent parts of Iran and Pakistan indicates that a lake as much as 65,000 sq km in size occupied this closed depression during Pleistocene time. The deposits consist mostly of lacustrine silt and clay and have a maximum observed...
Thin and layered subcontinental crust of the Great Basin western North America inherited from Paleozoic marginal ocean basins?
Michael Churkin Jr., E.H. McKee
1974, Tectonophysics (23) 1-15
The seismic profile of the crust of the northern part of the Basin and Range province by its thinness and layering is intermediate between typical continental and oceanic crust and resembles that of marginal ocean basins, especially those with thick sedimentary fill. The...
Preliminary results from a search for regional tectonomagnetic effects in California and western Nevada
M.J.S. Johnston
1974, Tectonophysics (23) 267-275
Physical theory and laboratory experiments both indicate that tectonomagnetic effects in seismically active areas should be detected with highly sensitive drift-free differential magnetometers. By using a pair of synchronized 0.25 7 absolute magnetometers to measure precisely field differences between 70 adjacent sites with...
Structure and development of the southern Moroccan continental shelf
William P. Dillon
1974, Marine Geology (16) 121-143
The structure of the continental shelf off southern Morocco was studied by means of 2,100 km of seismic reflection profiles, magnetic and bathymetric surveys, and dredge samples. The research area lies off four geologic divisions adjacent to the coast: the Atlas Mountains; the...
Bimodal tholeiitic-dacitic magmatism and the Early Precambrian crust
F. Barker, Z. E. Peterman
1974, Precambrian Research (1) 1-12
Interlayered plagioclase-quartz gneisses and amphibolites from 2.7 to more than 3.6 b.y. old form much of the basement underlying Precambrian greenstone belts of the world; they are especially well-developed and preserved in the Transvaal and Rhodesian cratons. We postulate that these basement rocks are largely a metamorphosed, volcanic, bimodal suite...
