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The Eighty-Sixth (1987) Annual Meeting

Nebraska Bird Review

The eighty-sixth Annual Meeting was held in Valentine 15, 16, and 17 May, 1987, in conjunction with the South Dakota Ornithologists' Union. A previous joint meeting was held in Yankton, S. D. in 1959. Total attendance at some part of this meeting was 116; 6 who were members of both societies, 57 members of NOU only, 39 members of SDOU only, and 14 nonmembers. Friday night George Vandel, of the SD Game, Fish, and Parks Commission, spoke on the program, sponsored by the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, for the identification and preservation of shorebird habitat. At the …

Nebraska Bird Review June 1987 Volume 55 Number 2

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1986 Nebraska Nesting Survey
The Eighty-sixth (1987) Annual Meeting
Insects in Some Nebraska Crops as Food for Pheasant Chicks
A Red-naped Sapsucker in Sioux County, Nebraska
Black Rail in Knox County. Nebraska
MacGillilvray's Warbler in Cedar County, Nebraska
Notes

Karyotypic Analysis Of Five Rodents And A Marsupial From Belize, Central America, David W. Burton, John W. Bickham, Hugh H. Genoways, Timothy J. Mccarthy

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Karyotypes and chromosomal banding patterns of six species of small mammals from Belize are presented and discussed in light of relevant data in the literature. Individuals of Heteromys desmarestianus had FN values of 72, which differs from previous reports. G-bands were obtained and compared to fluorescent bands (DAPI) and with the location of NOR sites. The karyotypes of Peromyscus mexicanus, Sigmodon hispidus, Oryzomys couesi, and Ototylomys phyllotis are identical to the karyotypes for these species described in the literature. Active NORs were located on four pairs of chromosomes in O. phyllotis and fluorescent bands obtained with the …

Adaptation Of Striped Bass To Sea Water Following Direct Transfer From Freshwater: Morphological, Biochemical, And Physiological Parameters, Judy A. King

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There has been heightened interest in the biology of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) because of increased pollution in their native spawning grounds and because of their extensive use in landlocked sport fisheries. Their euryhalinity makes them an excellent species for osmoregulation studies. The objective of this research was to study the rate of adaptation of striped bass gills to sea water (3% salt) after direct transfer from freshwater using biochemical (ion transport enzyme levels), physiological (chloride efflux), and ultrastructural methods. Striped bass have specialized osmoregulatory cells located on the interlamellar and afferent surfaces of their gill filaments as shown by …

Behavioral Feeding Specialization In Pinaroloxias Inornata, The “Darwin's Finch” Of Cocos Island, Costa Rica, Tracey K. Werner, Thomas W. Sherry

Dartmouth Scholarship

As a population, Cocos Finches exhibit a broad range of feeding behaviors spanning those of several families of birds on the mainland, while individuals feed as specialists year-round. Although this extreme intraspecific variability occurs as predicted in a tropical oceanic island environment, these specializations challenge contemporary ecological theory in that they are not attributable to individual differences in age, sex, gross morphology, or opportunistic exploitation of patchy resources. Instead, they appear to originate and be maintained behaviorally, possibly via observational learning. This phenomenon adds another direction to the evolutionary radiation of the Darwin's Finches and underscores the necessity for detailed …

1986 Treasurer's Report

Nebraska Bird Review

Nebraska Bird Review

1986 TREASURERS REPORT

1986 (Twenty-Ninth) Fall Occurrence Report

Nebraska Bird Review

Two hundred ninety-three species (plus the possibility that the Loon sp. was not one listed) were reported from 13 "full-time" locations and 4 "spot check" locations in this report; the comparable figures for 1985 are 283 a!ld the possibility that the Empidonax species was not one listed, from 11 "full-time" and 8 "spot check" locations, 278 from 12 locations in 1984, and 262 from 10 locations in 1983.

The information is presented in a rough west (left) to east (right) order, with two locations of about the same longitude listed with the northernmost first. Two dates indicate the first and …

Book Reviews- Nebraska Bird Review March 1987

Nebraska Bird Review

Wildlife 2000 Modeling Habitat Relationships of Terestrial Vertebrates, edited by Jared Verner, Michael L. Morrison, and C. John Ralph, 496 pp., 9 x 11 1/2, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., bibliography, indexed, cloth, $17.50.

This book is based on the proceedings of a symposium at Stanford Sierra Camp, California, in 1984. Not all papers presented there are included; those that are were revised to reflect reactions to the presentations, and some additional papers were added to round out the presentation. The sixty papers are presented in several sections: Development, Testing, and Application of Wildlife-Habitat Models; Biometric Approaches to …

Correction To 1986 Spring Occurrence Report

Nebraska Bird Review

The text for Column 8 (Saunders Co.) gives (NBR 54:51) m = My 31 and m = Je 14. The second entry should read u = Je 14.

Notes- Nebraska Bird Review March 1987

Nebraska Bird Review

ROCK COUNTY, A pair of Cinnamon Teal, two Great Egrets, and a newly hatched clutch of Canada Geese were seen near Bassett on 26 April 1986.

--- Eldon Marsh, Box 365, Brunswick, Neb. 68720

On 19 and 20 May 1986 Mrs. Ratzlaff and I saw three White-faced Ibis on the Niobrara River, north of Bassett. They were feeding in a marsh.

--- Neal Ratzlaff, 536 Brentwood Road, Omaha, Neb. 68114

SHORT-EARED OWLS IN LANCASTER CO. Five to seven Short-eared Owls were observed on 10 January 1986, during a controlled burn on the Jack Sinn Memorial WMA, Lancaster Co. Two to …

Nebraska Bird Review- Whole Issue March 1987 Volume 55 Number 1

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1986 Treasurer's Report................... 2

1986 Christmas Count.....................3

1936 (Twenty-ninth) Fall Occurrence Report..................8

Notes...........................22

Book Reviews.............................26

Correction to 1986 Spring Occurrence Report......................28

1986 Christmas Count

Nebraska Bird Review

One hundred nine species are reported in this year's Christmas Count, eight more than last year. One species was reported present during the count week but not reported on any count, compared to two last year. Calmus-Loup made its first report this year, bringing to eleven the number of localities reporting. Fourteen species were reported on all counts; the comparable figure for. last year was also fourteen. The total individual count this year was 279,291, compared to 124,642 last year and 345,092 the year before. The Snow Goose count at DeSoto NWR and Red-winged Blackbirds and Starlings at Omaha account …

Comparison Of The Diet, Feeding Behavior, And Habitat Use Of Mallards (Anas Platyrhynchos) And Black Ducks (Anas Rubripes), Michael J. Bennett

Biology Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Division Pinophyta, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Striped Bass (Morone Saxatillis) Age From Body Scales, Opercles, And Dorsal Spines, Raj V. Kilambi, Thoniot T. Prabhakaran

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Cartographic Trend Analysis Of Furbearer Harvest Distributions In Arkansas, C. Renn Tumlison, Mark Trail, V. Rick Mcdaniel

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Average by-county fur harvest for the last nine harvest seasons (1977-1985) was used as data points to be interpolated using nearest neighbor algorithms in computer-assisted trend analyses. COMPLOT maps were produced which represented a surface of harvest densities drawn over a map of Arkansas. Twelve furbearer species are examined, and "topographic" features of harvest density for each are interpreted in terms of ecology and/or buyer distribution. The trend surface technique removed some of the error inherent to harvest records, and produced an aesthetic graphical display of the information that was more easily interpreted and explained than other methods of analysis …

Key To Subject Areas, Stephen L. Wood, Donald E. Bright Jr.

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Vol. 9

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Acknowledgments, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

General References, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Group Tracheophyta – Vascular Plants: Key To The Divisions And Classes, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Author Abbreviations, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

E–H, Stephen L. Wood, Donald E. Bright Jr.

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

R–S, Stephen L. Wood, Donald E. Bright Jr.

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

M–Q, Stephen L. Wood, Donald E. Bright Jr.

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Yellow Rail (Coturnicops Novaborancensis) With Dark Plumage From Arkansas, Douglas A. James

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Vol. 11

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Index, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

Division Magnoliophyta – Class Magnoliopsida, Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, Larry C. Higgins

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.