A million robins and 10,000 pine siskins in the Dismal Swamp
B. Meanley
1970, Atlantic Naturalist (25) 40
Head-scratching method of the Swainson's warbler
Brooke Meanley
1970, The Auk (87) 163-163
Ficken and Ficken (Auk, 85: 136, 1968) suggest that the "Head-scratching method may prove a valuable addition to the set of complex characters that can be used in defining genera," and that field observers should continue to fill gaps in our knowledge of this behavior. In the course of a...
A transmitting harness for small birds
G.A. Godfrey
1970, IBBA [Inland Bird Banding Association] News (42) 3-5
Records of the brambling in North America
Richard C. Banks
1970, The Auk (87) 165-167
A Brambling, Fringella montifringella, was seen regularly in Portland, Oregon, from 22 November 1967 to 3 April 1968 and photographed by many people. First discovered at a feeder in the northeast section of the city by Jeff Gilligan and Ron Klein, from January on it was a daily visitor to...
1969 Inland Canadian banding report
L. L. Hood
1970, IBBA [Inland Bird Banding Association] News (42) 145-147
The Dismal Swamp - its flora and fauna
B. Meanley
1970, Living Wilderness (34) 34-37
The 1970 annual meeting of IBBA
L. L. Hood
1970, IBBA [Inland Bird Banding Association] News (42) 123-124
1969 Annual banding report
L. L. Hood
1970, IBBA [Inland Bird Banding Association] News (42) 102-119
Method of searching for food by the Swainson's warbler
B. Meanley
1970, The Wilson Bulletin (82) 228
The types and taxa of Harold H. Bailey
Richard C. Banks, J.P. Hubbard
1970, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (83) 321-332
Bird records from southern Nevada
Richard C. Banks, C.G. Hansen
1970, Condor (72) 109-110
No abstract available....
Bronzed cowbird taken in Florida
R.E. Matteson
1970, The Auk (87) 588-588
On 8 November 1968 in Gainesville, Florida, I removed a male Bronzed Cowbird (Tangavius a. aeneus) from a blackbird decoy trap containing a large number of Brown-headed Cowbirds (Malothrus ater). Oliver L. Austin, Jr., at the Florida State Museum, verified the species identification by noting the notched inner webs of...
Whistling swans breeding on the northwest coast of New Quebec
J.D. Heyland, E.B. Chamberlain, C.F. Kimball, D.H. Baldwin
1970, Canadian Field-Naturalist (84) 398-399
No abstract available....
Toxicity of DDT to Japanese quail as influenced by body weight, breeding condition, and sex
C.D. Gish, N.J. Chura
1970, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (17) 740-751
Controlled experiments were utilized to simulate the stresses on wild birds of breeding condition and of weight loss due to migration. Light conditions in the laboratory were manipulated to produce Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) in breeding condition and not in breeding condition. Within each of these groups, some birds...
Active anting in the Puerto Rican tanager
W.B. King, C. B. Kepler
1970, The Auk (87) 376-378
Anting, a bird’s intentional exposure of its body surface to chemical substances secreted by ants or other agents, has been recorded in over 20 species of birds of 40 families, mostly within the order Passeriformes. Our observations of anting in the Puerto Rico tanager (Neospingus speculiferus) extend the phenomenon to...
Organochlorine insecticide residues in soils and soil invertebrates from agricultural lands
C.D. Gish
1970, Pesticides Monitoring Journal (3) 241-252
Soils and earthworms and other soil invertebrates were collected from 67 agricultural fields in eight States. Samples were analyzed by gas chromatography for DDE, DDD, DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, and gamma-chlordane insecticides. Organochlorine insecticides in soils averaged 1.5 ppm, dry weight, and in earthworms, 13.8...
Incidence of malaria in a wintering population of canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) on Chesapeake Bay
R. M. Kocan, J.O. Knisley
1970, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (6) 441-442
Canvasback ducks wintering on Chesapeake Bay had a 6% incidence of Leucocytozoon sirnondi and 2% incidence of Haemoproteus. Sub-inoculation of whole blood into Pekin ducklings produced a Plasmodium infection rate of 31%. Females were more frequently infected (12/22) than males (15/68). The parasite was identified as P. circumflexum....
Passive immunization of pigeons against trichomoniasis
R. M. Kocan
1970, Journal of Protozoology (17) 551-553
Nonimmune homing pigeons Columba livia were infected with the Jones' Barn strain of Trichomonas gallinae and subsequently transfused with plasma from acute or chronically infected pigeons harboring one of 3 different strains of T. gallinae. The transfusions were either a single 2 ml dose given one day after inoculation or three 1 ml doses given 0,...
Accelerated research on migratory webless game birds
Duncan MacDonald, T.R. Evan
1970, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (35) 149-156
Paratyphoid in a barn owl
L. N. Locke, J.A. Newman
1970, Chesapeake Science (11) 67-68
No abstract available....
Measurements of brown pelican eggshells from Florida and South Carolina
L. J. Blus
1970, BioScience (20) 867-869
No abstract available....
A hoop-net trap for passerine birds--additional comments
E.B. Baysinger
1970, Bird-Banding (41) 311-311
No abstract available....
Challenge infection as a means of determining the rate of disease resistant Trichomonas gallinae-free birds in a population
R. M. Kocan, J.O. Knisley
1970, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (6) 13-15
Trichomonas gallinae-free pigeons and mourning doves were infected with the Jones' Barn strain of T. gallinae to determine the rate of disease resistant T. gallinae-free birds in each population. Although all birds became infected 88% of the pigeons were resistant to trichomoniasis while 82% of the mourning doves were resistant....
Re-evaluation of two supposed hybrid birds
Richard C. Banks
1970, The Wilson Bulletin (82) 331-332
Organochlorine pesticide residues in whooping cranes and Everglade kites
Thair Lamont, William L. Reichel
1970, The Auk (87) 158-159
Three Whooping Cranes (Grus americana), two Everglade Kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis), and one kite egg were analyzed for pesticide residues at this laboratory. This is the first time that specimens from this rare population from the wild have ever been analyzed, and the results are herein reported....