[Book review] A field guide to the birds of New Zealand and outlying islands
Chandler S. Robbins
1969, The Auk (86) 579-580
This field guide is so closely patterned after the familiar Peterson style that it may best be described in terms of its departures from that style. Color plates are disappointingly few. They depict: Penguin heads, parrots and kingfisher, eight species of ducks, a pigeon and seven species of native songbirds,...
Rediscovery of the nesting grounds of the Newell's manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus newelli), with initial observations
J.L. Sincock, G.E. Swedberg
1969, Condor (71) 69-71
No abstract available....
The Breeding Bird Survey in Virginia, 1966-1968
W.T. Van Velzen
1969, Raven (40) 3-9
The Breeding Bird Survey in Georgia, 1967-1969
W.T. Van Velzen
1969, Oriole (34) 71-76
The season - October, November, December, 1968
C.S. Robbins
1969, Maryland Birdlife (25) 21-28
California condor surveys, 1968
F.C. Sibley, R.D. Mallette, J.C. Borneman, R.S. Dalen
1969, California Fish and Game (55) 298-306
Let's save the dusky seaside sparrow
Brian Sharp
1969, Florida Naturalist (42) 68-70
[Book review] Life histories of North American cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, towhees, finches, sparrows, and allies
R.C. Banks
1969, The Auk (86) 768-770
The completion of an ornithological series as important as the Bent Life Histories is an exciting event. Here is a series of 21 volumes, spanning a history of nearly 60 years from inception to completion, containing over 9,500 text pages of information about North American birds, largely the work of...
Dieldrin and DDT: Effects on sparrow hawk eggshells and reproduction
Richard D. Porter, Stanley N. Wiemeyer
1969, Science (165) 199-200
Patterns of reproductive failure in declining populations of several European and North American raptorial species were duplicated experimentally with captive American sparrow hawks Falco sparverius that were given a diet containing two commonly used organochlorine insecticides. Major effects on reproduction were increased egg disappearance, increased egg destruction by parent birds,...
Progress report on Carolina Sandhills mourning dove studies
S.R. Amend
1969, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners (23) 191-201
Different organ preferences by the same strain of Trichomonas gallinae in different host species
R. M. Kocan
1969, Journal of Parasitology (55) 1003
No abstract available....
Interference from extraction thimbles in the gas chromatographic analysis of insecticides
T. G. Lamont, E. Cromartie
1969, Journal of Chromatography A (39) 325-326
No abstract available....
Pre-nesting and nesting behavior of the Swainson's warbler
B. Meanley
1969, The Wilson Bulletin (81) 246-257
The Swainson?s Warbler is one of the least known of southern birds. Although fairly common in some parts of its summer range, observations of its breeding biology have been made by very few persons. The present study was conducted mostly at Macon, Georgia; Pendleton Ferry, Arkansas; and Dismal Swamp, Virginia....In...
Various grains and liquid as potential vehicles of transmission for Trichomonas gallinae
R. M. Kocan
1969, Bulletin of the Wildlife Disease Association (5) 148-149
No abstract available. ...
Pyramiding damage
T.J. Peterle
1969, Environment (11) 34-40
The wild camellia and dwarf trillium in the Great Dismal Swamp
B. Meanley
1969, Atlantic Naturalist (24) 19-20
Dieldrin and eggshell thickness in ducks
P.N. Lehner, A. Egbert
1969, Nature (224) 1218-1219
Notes on Dismal Swamp birds
B. Meanley
1969, Raven (40) 47-49
Growth and mortality of herring gull chicks
J.A. Kadlec, W.H. Drury, D.K. Onion
1969, Bird-Banding (40) 222-233
No abstract available....
Loss of bands from adult herring gulls
J.A. Kadlec, W.H. Drury
1969, Bird-Banding (40) 216-221
No abstract available....
A method for producing healthy carriers of the Jones' barn strain of Trichomonas gallinae
R. M. Kocan
1969, Journal of Parasitology (55) 397
No abstract available....
Swainson warbler in the Dismal Swamp
B. Meanley
1969, Atlantic Naturalist (24) 204-205
A winter record of the Wilson's warbler at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland
L. N. Locke, F.S. Locke
1969, Maryland Birdlife (25) 16
No abstract available....
Lead poisoning and aspergillosis in an Andean condor
L. N. Locke, George E. Bagley, D.N. Frickie, L. T. Young
1969, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (155) 1052-1056
The killing efficiency of soft iron shot
R. Andrews, J. R. Longcore
1969, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (34) 337-345
A cooperative research effort between the ammunition industry and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife is aimed at finding a suitable non-toxic substitute for lead shot. A contract study by an independent research organization evaluated ways of coating or detoxifying lead shot or replacing it with another metal. As...
