The season - January, February, March, 1971
C.S. Robbins
1971, Maryland Birdlife (27) 73-78
The season - July, August, September, 1971
C.S. Robbins
1971, Maryland Birdlife (27) 186-193
The season - October, November, December, 1970
C.S. Robbins
1971, Maryland Birdlife (27) 42-50
Population ecology of the great blue heron with special reference to western Oregon
Charles J. Henny, M.R. Bethers
1971, Canadian Field-Naturalist (85) 205-209
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) begin nesting in western Oregon about 1 month earlier than reported from the Philadelphia region and about 2 months earlier than reported from Southern Alberta. The number of young fledged per nesting pair in Oregon was 2.04 in 1970 which was nearly identical to the...
Hawk migration over White Marsh, Maryland
C.D. Hackman, Charles J. Henny
1971, Chesapeake Science (12) 137-141
The average number of hawks observed per hour in autumn migration between 1951-1954 and 1958-1961 at White Marsh, Maryland, was compared. The counts indicated that the status of the ten species observed may be divided into three categories: (1) relatively stable species (red-tailed hawk), (2) declining species (sparrow hawk, red-shouldered...
Distribution of the fiddler crab (Uca minax) in relation to marsh plants within a Virginia estuary
J.A. Kerwin
1971, Chesapeake Science (12) 180-183
The distribution and abundance of the red-jointed fiddler crab, Uca minax, was related to the distribution of marsh plants within a Virginia estuary. The crab was found in association with 15 species of marsh phanerogams, occurring with five plant species more than 20 percent of the time. These plants were...
Using your head when banding
L. L. Hood
1971, Western Bird Bander (46) 12
Imperfect albinism in a red-tailed tropicbird
R. B. Clapp, L.N. Huber
1971, Condor (73) 123-123
No abstract available. ...
Atlantic shore salt marshes
J.A. Kerwin
1971, Atlantic Naturalist (26) 71-74
Some patterns of woodcock activities on Maine summer fields
W.B. Krohn
1971, The Wilson Bulletin (83) 396-407
Certain aspects of woodcock usage of summer fields were studied in Maine. Findings were as follows: ....1. On two study fields in 1968, numbers of woodcock first began spending nights in the fields during the second week of June. During 1968 and 1969, the number of birds flushed from the...
Annual adult survival rates of blackbirds and starlings
Don P. Fankhauser
1971, Bird-Banding (42) 36-42
No abstract available. ...
Department of the Interior's regulations on importation and shipment of scientific and zoological specimens of fish and wildlife
Richard C. Banks, E.P. Denson
1971, Journal of Mammalogy (52) 491-493
Publication dates of the North American Fauna series
Richard C. Banks
1971, The Auk (88) 676-676
The correct date of publication of numbers in the well-known North American Fauna series, begun in 1889, was printed on the cover of each issue through No. 48. After that time dates of publication that appear on the covers are either incomplete or incorrect. For taxonomic purposes, for developing a...
A specimen of Jouanin's petrel from Lisianski Island, northwestern Hawaiian Islands
R. B. Clapp
1971, Condor (73) 490-490
No abstract available....
Eggshell thinning in the brown pelican: Implication of DDE
L. J. Blus, R.G. Heath, C.D. Gish, A. A. Belisle, R. M. Prouty
1971, BioScience (21) 1213-1215
No abstract available....
Monitoring pesticides in wildlife
E. H. Dustman, W.E. Martin, R.G. Heath, W. L. Reichel
1971, Pesticides Monitoring Journal (5) 50-52
Early in the development of the wildlife monitoring program, certain criteria were recognized as being important in the selection of species of wild animals suitable for pesticide monitoring purposes. Ideally, the forms selected should be geographically well distributed, and they should be reasonably abundant and readily available for sampling....
Thickness of 1967-69 whooping crane eggshells compared to that of pre-1910 specimens
Daniel W. Anderson, J.F. Kreitzer
1971, The Auk (88) 433-434
Table 1 summarizes measurements of pre-1910 Whooping Crane (Grus americana) eggshells obtained from 10 North American museums and private egg collections. They include 30 eggs from Iowa, 5 from North Dakota, 13 from Manitoba, and 2 each from Saskatchewan and Alberta; 11 of the eggs were classified as subelliptical and...
Reproduction and survival of short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) in captivity
L. J. Blus
1971, Laboratory Animal Science (21) 884-891
First Puerto Rican record of the Antillean palm swift
C. B. Kepler
1971, The Wilson Bulletin (83) 309-310
Proceedings of the eighty-eighth stated meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
Richard C. Banks
1971, The Auk (88) 144-162
The Eighty-eighth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union was held 5-9 October 1970 at Buffalo, New York. Cosponsors were the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the Buffalo Audubon Society, and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Business sessions were held in the Statler Hilton Hotel on 5 October, and papers...
How to prepare a winter range map from Christmas bird count data
D. Bystrak
1971, American Birds (25) 952-956
Point system tests continue
A. D. Geis
1971, In-Sight (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 3-4
Preservation of Maui's endangered forest birds
W. Banko
1971, Condor (73) 120-121
No abstract available....
Synecology of a Virginia salt marsh
J.A. Kerwin, R. Pedigo
1971, Chesapeake Science (12) 125-130
In the spring and summer of 1964 a salt marsh in Gloucester County, Virginia, was analyzed using random quadrat sampling. Synthetic treatments were employed to evaluate data and were correlated with observed differences in elevation. Floristic data indicate the Virginia salt marshes show closer similarity to marshes north of Chesapeake...
Thirty-fifth breeding-bird census. 47. Powerline right-of-way
J. R. Longcore
1971, American Birds (25) 997-999