Publications
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Green coloration of recently laid black-crowned night-heron eggs Green coloration of recently laid black-crowned night-heron eggs
Color of Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) eggs of known laying order was quantified in a Wisconsin (USA) colony. Eggs were of greener intensity on the day of laying and one day thereafter than earlier laid eggs within a clutch. Egg color can be used to identify clutches within one day after clutch completion and to assign laying order within clutches during this period.
Authors
T. W. Custer
Bats, cyanide, and gold mining Bats, cyanide, and gold mining
Although the boom days of prospectors and gold nuggets are long gone, modern technology enables gold to continue to be extracted from ore. Unfortunately, the extraction method has often been disastrous for bats and other wildlife, an issue I first became aware of in early 1989. Phone calls from Drs. Merlin Tuttle and Elizabeth Pierson, a BCI member and bat researcher from Berkeley...
Authors
Donald R. Clark
Acadia National Park studies coyote-deer interactions Acadia National Park studies coyote-deer interactions
No abstract available.
Authors
A.F. O'Connell
[Book review] The birds of Japan, by M.A. Brazil [Book review] The birds of Japan, by M.A. Brazil
No abstract available.
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R. B. Clapp
Managing suburban forest fragments for birds Managing suburban forest fragments for birds
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins
The amateur birdbander: The Bird Banding Laboratory perspective The amateur birdbander: The Bird Banding Laboratory perspective
No abstract available.
Authors
J. Tautin
Fence climbing by the arboreal snake Boiga irregularis Fence climbing by the arboreal snake Boiga irregularis
No abstract available.
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G.H. Rodda
Postfledging survival and recruitment of known-origin roseate terns (Sterna dougallii) at Falkner Island, Connecticut Postfledging survival and recruitment of known-origin roseate terns (Sterna dougallii) at Falkner Island, Connecticut
From 1981-1990, 166 (10.1%) of 1636 Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii) chicks banded from 1978-1985 at Falkner Island, Connecticut, [USA] and 68 (1.0%) of 6904 chicks banded during the same time period at all other colony sites in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts, were recaptured as breeding adults at Falkner Island. An analysis of the recapture data of the natal-site recruits...
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J. A. Spendelow
Remembering Francis Morley Uhler Remembering Francis Morley Uhler
No abstract available.
Authors
Matthew C. Perry
Breeding bird census, 1990: 9. Mature beech-maple-oak bottomland forest Breeding bird census, 1990: 9. Mature beech-maple-oak bottomland forest
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins