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Endemicity And Regional Biodiversity In Nebraska's Breeding Avifauna, Paul A. Johnsgard
Endemicity And Regional Biodiversity In Nebraska's Breeding Avifauna, Paul A. Johnsgard
Papers in Ornithology
I estimate that 215 bird species currently breed or have previously bred in Nebraska. This number compares with a total of 330 spe¬cies that breed or have bred in the Great Plains region south of Canada, as I defined that region in my book on the breeding birds of the Great Plains (Johnsgard, 1979). An analysis of the relative species diversity of Nebraska's breeding avifauna establishes several areas of unusual species richness and endemicity, these most important being the Missouri Valley and associated middle to lower Niobrara Valley, the Pine Ridge area of the northwestern Panhandle, and the entire Platte …
Masthead And Table Of Contents [December 1998]
Masthead And Table Of Contents [December 1998]
Nebraska Bird Review
The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $14.00 in the United States; $18.00 for all foreign countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $4.00 each, postpaid, in the United States, and $5.00 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Mary Lou Pritchard, NOU Librarian, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514.
Memberships in NOU (on a calendar year basis only): Active, $15.00; Sustaining, $25.00; Student, $10.00; Family Active, $20.00; Family Sustaining,$30.00; …
Index [For Volume 66]
Nebraska Bird Review
Alexander, G. 26
Alexander, I. 26
Allen, A. A. 68
Allen, B. 27, 60, 61, 110
Alt, J. 8
Amiotte, S. 27
Armstrong, M. 60
Aversa, T. 158
Avocet, American 39, 90, 128
Nebraska Bird Review (December 1998) 66(4), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review (December 1998) 66(4), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review
In Memorium: Harvey L. Gunderson … 114
Parasitic Jaeger at Lake McConaughy … 114
Endemicity and Regional Biodiversity in Nebraska's Breeding Avifauna … 115
Fall Field Report: Introduction … 121
Fall Field Report: Species Accounts … 123
1997 (Ninth) Report of the NOU Records Committee … 147
Bird Banding Notes … 159
Index for Volume 66 … 160
Bird Banding Notes From Ruth Green, Ruth Green
Bird Banding Notes From Ruth Green, Ruth Green
Nebraska Bird Review
On 29 April 1998, while working with school children from the Chadron Public Schools, Ruth banded a Pine Siskin at Nebraska's Chadron State Park, Dawes County. Approximately seven and a half months later, on 12 December, this same bird was recovered beneath a feeder in Springfield, Oregon. The Pine Siskin was dead, perhaps a victim of disease sweeping the siskin population on the West Coast. This particular occurrence is noteworthy for the distance traveled both west and north.
The Summer Tanager pictured below was also banded by Betty. She banded the AHY-F (After Hatching Year, Female) Summer Tanager on 10 …
Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Warbler
No abstract provided.
Wpa News 57 (1998), World Pheasant Association
Wpa News 57 (1998), World Pheasant Association
Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters
WPA News (November 1998), number 57
Published by the World Pheasant Association
Grassland Birds And Habitat Structure In Sandhills Prairie Managed Using Cattle Or Bison Plus Fire, Randall Griebel, Stephen L. Winter, Allen Steuter
Grassland Birds And Habitat Structure In Sandhills Prairie Managed Using Cattle Or Bison Plus Fire, Randall Griebel, Stephen L. Winter, Allen Steuter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Grassland birds are known to respond to specific changes in habitat structure, such as plant height and density. However, the response of grassland bird communities to management induced changes in the regional habitat mosaic are less well understood. Grazing by ungulates and fire regimes play an important role in defining the habitat mosaic in the Great Plains. We provide information on bird abundance, distribution, and habitat structure from similar sandhill prairie landscapes managed traditionally with grazing by cattle (Bos taurus) and by a dynamic bison (Bos bison)-plus-fire regime. Although the two management regimes are dissimilar, only …
1998 Midwinter Eagle Survey For Nebraska Including Summary Tables For The 1980-1998 Period From The Nebraska Game And Parks Commission, John J. Dinan
1998 Midwinter Eagle Survey For Nebraska Including Summary Tables For The 1980-1998 Period From The Nebraska Game And Parks Commission, John J. Dinan
Nebraska Bird Review
Mild temperatures were prevalent in the weeks prior to this year's survey; however, temperatures cold enough to form a thin layer of ice on some reservoirs and lakes occurred between aerial surveys. Three of the aerial surveys were conducted on the 6th and 7th of January and one was conducted on the 13th. The survey route that includes the Platte River from Kearney to Plattsmouth and the Loup River was not surveyed this year because of persistent foggy conditions.
Temperatures recorded during the 1998 survey were variable, ranging from 5 to 40 degrees F. The Niobrara River was 50 to …
Book Review: Baby Bird Portraits By George Miksch Sutton: Watercoiors In The Field Museum By Johnsgard, P. A. (1998), John J. Janovy Jr.
Book Review: Baby Bird Portraits By George Miksch Sutton: Watercoiors In The Field Museum By Johnsgard, P. A. (1998), John J. Janovy Jr.
Nebraska Bird Review
George M. Sutton's baby bird portraits are his most captivating works. The subjects are isolated against a stark, raw-paper background, and they stare out at the viewer with eyes typically naive but alert. Sutton's artistic mastery of the foot is integral to the underlying biology in these pictures: sturdy and sure against the table for a ruffed grouse, curled inward and near useless for a gallinule on dry land, and almost casually clutching a twig, the hallux resting loosely, for a newly fledged grosbeak. The match between these pictures and Paul Johnsgard's text is perfect. In his first two paragraphs, …
Table Of Contents And Masthead [September 1998]
Table Of Contents And Masthead [September 1998]
Nebraska Bird Review
The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $14.00 in the United States; $18.00 for all foreign countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $4.00 each, postpaid, in the United States, and $5.00 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Mary Lou Prichard, NOU Librarian, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514.
Memberships in NOU (on a calendar year basis only): Active, $15.00; Sustaining, $25.00; Student, $10.00; Family Active, $20.00; Family Sustaining,$30.00; …
Bald Eagle Counts At Two Facilities Owned And Operated By The Central Nebraska Public Power And Irrigation District, Mark M. Peyton, Rodger Knaggs
Bald Eagle Counts At Two Facilities Owned And Operated By The Central Nebraska Public Power And Irrigation District, Mark M. Peyton, Rodger Knaggs
Nebraska Bird Review
Since 1988 the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District (Central) has provided, free to the public, a bald eagle viewing facility in its Johnson #2 Hydroelectric Plant south of Lexington, Dawson County, and since 1990 a facility near the outlet of the Kingsley Hydroelectric Plant at Lake Ogallala in Keith County.
Central provides binoculars and viewing scopes at both locations as well as personnel to answer questions and provide assistance. These individuals also conducted daily eagle surveys at the facilities.
A Half-Century Of Winter Bird Surveys At Lincoln And Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard
A Half-Century Of Winter Bird Surveys At Lincoln And Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard
Papers in Ornithology
Since 1900, the National Audubon Society has sponsored annual "Christmas bird counts" during the two-week period encompassing Christmas; and as a result, long-term data on winter bird populations have accumulated, especially for some locations. The first two such counts in Nebraska were made in 1909 and in 1912 in Lincoln. Beginning in 1947 and continuing to the present, an unbroken series of counts were made in Lincoln, usually by members of the Uni¬versity Place Bird Club, the Audubon Naturalist's Club, or the Wachiska chapter of the National Audubon Society. For Scottsbluff, an unbroken set of counts extends from 1949 to …
"A Half-Century Of Winter Bird Surveys At Lincoln And Scottsbluff, Nebraska", Paul A. Johnsgard
"A Half-Century Of Winter Bird Surveys At Lincoln And Scottsbluff, Nebraska", Paul A. Johnsgard
Nebraska Bird Review
Since 1900, the National Audubon Society has sponsored annual "Christmas bird counts" during the two-week period encompassing Christmas; and as a result, long-term data on winter bird populations have accumulated, especially for some locations. The first two such counts in Nebraska were made in 1909 and in 1912 in Lincoln. While similar counts were made in Omaha from 1909 to 1911, no further counts were conducted elsewhere in the state until the 1940's. Beginning in 1947 and continuing to the present, an unbroken series of counts were made in Lincoln, usually by members of the University Place Bird Club, the …
Nebraska Bird Count For 1997 Addendum
Nebraska Bird Count For 1997 Addendum
Nebraska Bird Review
Site and Party Data
Observers
Total Species
Total Individuals
CW Birds
Summer Field Report, June-July, 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen
Summer Field Report, June-July, 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen
Nebraska Bird Review
First, some housekeeping is in order. . . . You will also notice the new order of species (AGAIN!!), reflecting the latest American Ornithologists' Union Checklist, published this spring. The most noticeable change concerns the placement of shrikes and vireos between flycatchers and corvids; but the order of species within some genera also differs, especially among the waterfowl, where, for instance, swans now follow the geese.
And now let's turn to the birds! As in most summers, many species went about their business in routine fashion, hence the notation "Routine Reports" for many.
We encourage observers to note and to …
Nebraska Bird Review (September 1998) 66(3), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review (September 1998) 66(3), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review
A Half Century of Winter Bird Surveys in Lincoln and Scottsbluff ... 74
Summer Field Report, June to July, 1998, Introduction ... 84
Species Accounts ... 86
Book Review: Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton ... 100
1998 Midwinter Eagle Survey and Ten-Year Summary Tables ... 101
Central Nebraska Public Power Facilities Eagle Count ... 108
Nebraska Bird Count for 1997 Addendum ... 110
Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Warbler
No abstract provided.
In Memorium: Charles G. Sibley, Paul A. Johnsgard
In Memorium: Charles G. Sibley, Paul A. Johnsgard
Papers in Ornithology
Dr. Charles Sibley, who passed away in April 1998, is recalled and appreciated by a former student, lab assistant, co-worker, and colleague, who first encountered him at Cornell University in 1955, beginning a 43-year working relationship.
Nebraska Bird Review (June 1998) 66(2), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review (June 1998) 66(2), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review
Spring Field Report, March to May, 1998, Introduction … 30
Species Accounts … 32
Cooperative Whooping Crane Tracking Project Report … 55
Confirmed Whooping Crane Sightings in the USA … 58
NOU Fall Field Days Count, 1997; May NAMC Count, 1998 … 60
Table for NOU Fall Count and NAMC Count … 61
In Memorium: Charles G. Sibley … 68
Three Poems by Twyla Hansen … 70
Spring Field Report, March To May 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen
Spring Field Report, March To May 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen
Nebraska Bird Review
In most respects, this was a routine spring. While a few rarities and several interesting reports appeared, perhaps most interesting was the arrival of the electronic age. Foremost was the start-up of "NEBIRDS," the Nebraska Birding Listserver set up and operated by Robert Price at Kearney. This resource should greatly enhance communication and collective learning amongst birders in the state. We have culled several reports from observations submitted to NEBIRDS, and several reporters now contact us by email. We urge observers to forward their email addresses; if we have questions on their reports, communication would be easy! Submit reports and …
Cooperative Whooping Crane Tracking Project (February 1998-May 1998)
Cooperative Whooping Crane Tracking Project (February 1998-May 1998)
Nebraska Bird Review
Whooping crane spring and fall migrations are monitored each year. Sighting reports are forwarded to the Ecological Services Field Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service, Grand Island, Nebraska, by private organizations, State and Federal conservation agencies, and the Canadian Wildlife Service. Cooperation throughout the whooping crane flyway continues to be excellent. Special thanks go out to each participant.
Between 1977 and 1988, 132 juvenile whooping cranes were color marked on the breeding grounds; of these 40 were accounted for during the winter of 1997–98. One color-marked crane was observed during the spring migration. All sightings of color-marked whooping …
Table Of Contents And Masthead [June 1998]
Table Of Contents And Masthead [June 1998]
Nebraska Bird Review
The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $14.00 in the United States; $18.00 for all foreign countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $4.00 each, postpaid, in the United States, and $5.00 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Mary Lou Prichard, NOU Librarian, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514.
Memberships in NOU (on a calendar year basis only): Active, $15.00; Sustaining, $25.00; Student, …
Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Warbler
No abstract provided.
Changes In The Breeding Bird Community Of Subtropical Evergreen Forest In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of Texas, 1970s-1990s, Timothy Brush, Alberto Cantu
Changes In The Breeding Bird Community Of Subtropical Evergreen Forest In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of Texas, 1970s-1990s, Timothy Brush, Alberto Cantu
Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Breeding-bird censuses conducted in 1994-1996 at the Santa Ana National Wildlife, southern Texas were compared to those done on the same site in 1973-1978. The study site was described as subtropical evergreen forest in the 1970s, but is now thorn-forest with remnant evergreen forest. Canopy cover was incomplete and lower and trees were smaller and more densely packed in 1994-1996 than in 1973-1978. Seven bird species typical of thorn-forest and thorn-scrub, which were not present in 1973-1978, made up 20% of the breeding bird community in 1994-1996. Species tolerant of thorn-forest and thorn-scrub made up 76.0% of the breeding bird …
Wpa News 56 (1998), World Pheasant Association
Wpa News 56 (1998), World Pheasant Association
Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters
WPA News (May 1998), number 56
Published by the World Pheasant Association
Addendum To The G. M. Sutton Bibliography, Paul A. Johnsgard
Addendum To The G. M. Sutton Bibliography, Paul A. Johnsgard
Paul Johnsgard Collection
Since the publication of "The George Miksch Sutton Bibliography" (Nebraska Bird
Review 65(2): 46-58), the following additional titles have come to light:
Sutton, G. M. 1921. "Night Voices." Bird Lore 21:108-110.
__ 1933. "Fifty years of progress in American bird art." pp 181-197 in: Fifty Years'
Progress of American Ornithology: 1883-1933. American Ornithologists Union, Lancaster, PA.
__ 1962. Is bird art art? Living Bird 1 :73-78.
__ 1977. A wood duck portrait. Living Bird 16:5-6.
__ 1978. Three pine grosbeaks. Living Bird 17:5-6.
__ 1980. A yellow rail sketch. Living Bird 18:5-6.
__ 1981. A boreal owl portrait. Living …
Nebraska Bird Review (March 1998) 66(1), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review (March 1998) 66(1), Whole Issue
Nebraska Bird Review
NOU Treasurer's Annual Report ... 2
Nebraska's First Curlew Sandpiper ... 3
Addendum to G. M. Sutton Bibliography ... 3
Mystery Duck at Sinninger Waterfowl Production Area ... 4
Bald Eagle Nest Monitoring - Nebraska, 1997 ... 5
Winter Field Report, Dec 1997-Feb 1998 ... 6
Nebraska Christmas Bird Count for 1997 ... 18
Note from the New Editors ... 27
Winter Field Report, Dec 1997 To Feb 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen
Winter Field Report, Dec 1997 To Feb 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen
Nebraska Bird Review
As one observer (DH) noted, this was a "weird" winter. January and February were more like March, producing winter reports of species with few such previous reports; the species involved come from all parts of the taxonomic list, from loons to icterids. Almost certainly, a first (in recorded history) was a slam of all the Nebraska grebe species in January, even Red-necked and Clark's! Also in January, a Pacific Loon was reported. As shown in the species' accounts below, the list of rare midwinter species is long.
Another significant, related finding involved early-arriving spring migrants, also a long list. In …
Bald Eagle Nest Monitoring - Nebraska, 1997 Summary Report, John J. Dinan
Bald Eagle Nest Monitoring - Nebraska, 1997 Summary Report, John J. Dinan
Nebraska Bird Review
In 1997, 38 Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) nests in 22 counties were surveyed for breeding activity. Eagles occupied territories at 10 of these sites. These same 10 territories were occupied in 1996. Two separate, mid-July sightings of Bald Eagles along the Niobrara River, one of an adult and three juveniles in Knox County and one of an adult and a juvenile in Holt County, suggests the presence of additional nesting territories. All nest attempts in 1997 were successful, producing a total of 16 fledged young. The Lake Alice nest on the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge fell during …