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Pine Siskin Nests At Wayne State College, A. Jewell Schock

Nebraska Bird Review

On 29 April 1976 I observed a number of Pine Siskins in the elm and blue spruce trees on the Wayne State College campus, Wayne, Nebraska. They were actively flying back and forth between the trees so I could not determine the exact number of them, but they would have numbered less than a dozen.

On 30 April I saw that a Pine Siskin appeared to be building a nest in a blue spruce tree, about five feet above the ground. I continued to watch from a safe distance for the next few days. By 5 May the nest appeared …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (December 1983) 51(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

A New Nesting Species for Nebraska ... 86
Book Reviews ... 87
A Second Black-shouldered Kite in Nebraska,
with Notes on Its Food Habits ... 88
Pine Siskin Nests at Wayne State College ... 89
1983 Fall Field Day ... 89
A Mississippi Kite in Hall County, Nebraska ... 90
Notes ... 91
Index of Volume ... 97

1983 Fall Field Day

Nebraska Bird Review

There were 55 who registered for the 1983 Fall Field Day, 24/25 September 1983, at the 4-H Camp at Halsey National Forest. With the benefit of good weather they tallied 94 species on or near the Forest, and a party that went up US 83 as far as the North Loup added 10 more (marked [N]), and 2 or 3 unidentified species of shore birds. The Scott's Oriole, near Wauneta, was selected as the best of the birds submitted for consideration, with the Black-necked Stilt, near Gothenburg, and the Glossy Ibis, at Lincoln, tied for second. After the slide show …

A Second Black-Shouldered Kite In Nebraska, With Notes On Its Food Habits, Gary Lingle, Kari L. Lingle

Nebraska Bird Review

On 31 August 1983 at about 1200 h COT, the junior author discovered a Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus) on Mormon Island Crane Meadows, Hall County, Nebraska, perched in a plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides). The senior author visited the site at 1800 h COT and observed the bird in the same tree, with a 25x spotting scope. It was perched on a dead limb and was carefully observed for 15 min. The next day, 1 September, we visited the area at 1200 hand observed the Kite. We carefully noted plumage and soft parts coloration as follows: eye …

"Book Reviews" From Nebraska Bird Review (December 1983) 51(4), Rusty Cortelyou

Nebraska Bird Review

Book Reviews

Bird Conservation: No.1, Stanley A. Temple, Editor, 148 pp. 6 x 9, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis. No index, paper. $12.95

The Care and Breeding of Seed-eating Birds, Finches and Allied Species - Doves, Quail and Hemipodes. Jeffery Trollope, 336 pp. 5¾ x8¾, Blandford Press, England, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., New York, bibliography, indexed, hardbound, $17.95.

Birds of North America, Expanded, Revised Edition Robbins, Bruun, and Zim, illustrated by Singer. 4½ x 7½, 360 pp. Golden Press, New York. $7.95 softcover, $10.95 hardcover.

Dues Are Due!

Nebraska Bird Review

N.O.U. dues are on a calendar year basis, and in case you haven't already done so, sit right down and send your check, payable to N.O.U., to Mrs. Jack Shafer, RR2, Box61, Wood River, Nebraska 68883. The rates are: Student, $3.00; Active, $7.00; Sustaining, $15.00; Family Active $10.00; Family Sustaining $20.00; Life, $100.00

1984 Annual Meeting will be in Chadron on 19 and 20 May. Mark your calendar!

A New Nesting Species For Nebraska, Gary Lingle

Nebraska Bird Review

The Chuck-will's widow (Caprimulgus carolinensis) is considered a highly local but regular migrant and presumed summer resident in Nebraska. Although it is known to breed in Kansas and Oklahoma, there were no nest records for Nebraska (Johnsgard, 1980). Egg dates for Kansas range from 21 April to 31 May (Johnsgard, 1979). On 4 June 1983 a Chuck-will's widow's nest with 2 eggs was discovered in a bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa)–red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) woodland at Camp Merrill, Saunders Co. (Sec 29 T17N RSW), approximately 6 miles southeast of Linwood (Janett Waever, pers. comm.) The …

"Notes," From Nebraska Bird Review (December 1983) 51(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

CORRECTIONS TO NBR 51:18. On line 8 of page 18 of the March 1983 Bird Review the number of parties for North Platte should be 3, rather than 30. At the bottom of the page, the Olivaceous Cormorant was taken at Sutherland, Lincoln County (Lincoln was left out).

MORE ON THE A.O.U. CHECKLIST. The 6th Edition of the A.O.U. Checklist has been released, and some of the loose ends in the previous report on it (NBR 50:74) can now be tied up. The Crested Tinamou (no Elegant) is listed in Appendix D - introduced species, either not established or …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 15, No. 4. December 1983

The Prairie Naturalist

Paul B. Kannowski, Editor

Nikki R. Seabloom, Assistant Editor

Douglas H. Johnson, Book Review Editor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ASPECTS OF THE NESTING ECOLOGY OF LEAST TERNS AND PIPING PLOVERS IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ▪ C. A. Faanes

LEAD SHOT INCIDENCE IN SANDHILL CRANES COLLECTED FROM ALASKA, CANADA, AND TEXAS ▪ B. M. Wallace, R. J. Warren and G. D. Gaines

LEAD SHOT INCIDENCE IN WATERFOWL COLLECTED FROM THE TEXAS HIGH PLAINS ▪ B. M. Wallace, R. J. Warren and R. J. Whyte

SMALL MAMMALS OF WINTER WHEAT AND GRAIN SORGHUM CROPLANDS IN WEST-CENTRAL KANSAS ▪ K. W. Navo and E. D. …

Aspects Of The Nesting Ecology Of Least Terns And Piping Plovers In Central Nebraska, Craig A. Faanes

Papers in Ornithology

Breeding habitat of the least tern is made up primarily of coastal beaches and inland river sandbars. Populations of the interior (Sterna antillarum athalassos) and east coast (S. a. antillarum) subspecies are now declining (Marshall et al. 1975, Duffy 1977, Jernigan et al. 1978) and the western subspecies (S. a. browni) is endangered (Wilbur 1974). Although coastal populations have received considerable attention (Wolk 1974, Atwood et al. 1977, Blodgett 1978), little research has been conducted on the interior race (Hardy 1957, Downing 1975).

The piping plover inhabits river sandbars and sand beaches and, like …

The Probe, Issue 38 - December 1983

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

The Probe National Animal Damage Control Association
No. 38 December, 1983
USFWS trying to close ADC
Ye Ed Comments
MIS Reports
Letters to Ye Ed
Meetings
Wolves

Acoustical Signals Of Passalid Beetles: Complex Repertoires, Jack C. Schuster

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

Adult passalids produced sounds of 7 basic structural types in at least 13 different behavioral contexts. A given type in a particular behavioral context may be termed a "signal". A total of 31 signals were recorded from 57 species. The presence of the same basic signals in both New World tribes suggests an early origin of the fundamental repertoire. The 14-signal repertoire of Odontotaenius disjunctus (Ill.) is larger than previously known for any arthropod and more extensive than those of many vertebrates. The large repertoire is associated with a high level of sociality. Dendroctonus beetles, similarly highly social, also have …

A Checklist Of Parasites Of California, Oregon, And Washington Marine And Estuarine Fishes, Milton S. Love, Mike Moser

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

This report is a summary of the published records of parasites found from the marine and estuarine fishes of California, Oregon, and Washington. Coverage has not been limited to the western United States, but rather includes parasite reports from throughout each fish's range. Included is a host-parasite list and parasite-host cross index.

We have produced this survey because we felt there was a need for a single source which would list all the parasites infecting marine and estuarine fish from California, Oregon, and Washington. Pertinent sources are scattered over a number of journals, covering many years. Workers find it time …

Agricultural Experiment Station News November 1983

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
IANR REALLOCATION RECOMMENDATIONS
FEDERAL RESEARCH BUDGET UPDATE
FACULTY RESIGNATIONS
IANR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS UPDATE
LAYMAN FUND PROPOSALS
NEBRASKA BANKERS ASSOCIATION GRANTS
WEIHING RETIREMENT RECEPTION
SUGAR BEET RESEARCH PLEDGES
PROGRAM REVIEW
THE GOOD LIFE WORKSHOPS
EXTENSION AND SERVICE COUNCIL GRANT PROGRAMS
NEW OR REVISED RESEARCH PROJECTS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
NEW EXPERIMENT STATION PERSONNEL
HOLIDAYS

The Probe, Issue 37 - November 1983

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

The Probe National Animal Damage Control Association
No. 37 November, 1983
1080
President Nixon's Executive Order No. 11643
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
EPA reports
Jerome, Idaho passed an ordinance Tuesday night regulating exotic pets and dangerous animals
Coyote Attacks
Animal Liberation Front
Erma Brombeck
Texas Trapline
Sixth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop
Water Poisoning
Letters to Ye Ed
Grizzly Bears
Albrect Bear Foot Snare Throwarm

Talking With Young Children About Social Ideas, Carolyn P. Edwards, Mary Ellin Logue, Anna Sargent Russell

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

During the early childhood years, children’s understanding of many social and moral issues undergoes immense changes. We became interested in learning more about these changes and supporting them through our laboratory preschool curriculum. One major change, for example, is that children come to classify themselves and others into sex, age, and kinship categories and to learn social role expectations. Children also show greatly deepened understanding of such moral issues as fair sharing, obedience, authority, and friendship.

These areas of development are part of what can be called social cognition, or “children’s understanding of social behavior—what children think about their own …

Assessment Of Methiocarb-Impregnated Sunflower Achenes As Bait To Repel Blackbirds From Ripening Sunflowers, Michael M. Jaeger, Donald J. Cunningham, Richard L. Bruggers, Edgar J. Scott

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Sunflower achenes impregnated with methiocarb at levels of up to 1,400 ppm were tested as baits to repel blackbirds from ripening sunflowers in 12, 0.8·ha fields at Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Brown County, South Dakota. Cue enhancement in the form of either 4-Aminopyridine (4-AP) impregnated sunflower achenes or blaze-orange marker flags was used in combination with the methiocarb baits. Combined bird damage was an estimated 53% during the 4-week period from first treatment, at the end of anthesis, until termination of the study. In addition, there was no difference in fields with the 4-AP vs. orange flags. The test …

Are Starlings A Potential Threat To Certain Corn Hybrids?, Paul P. Woronecki, Richard A. Dolbeer

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Although the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has long been considered a serious depredator of certain crops, especially fruit, it has not been thought to seriously damage maturing corn. In fact, most investigators have considered starlings to be beneficial in cornfields because of their consumption of earworms (Heliothus zea) and other insects. In controlled cage studies we determined starlings were capable of causing substantial damage to maturing field corn. Starling damage to a long-husked resistant and to a short-husked susceptible hybrid was 1.6 and 2.7 times greater, respectively, than that caused by male red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius …

An Evaluation Of Avitrol On Parakeets In Pakistan, Abdul Aziz Khan, Shakeel Ahmad

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Tableted corn bait of 4-Aminopyridine was laboratory evaluated against Psittacula krameri at three concentrations (2%, 2.5% and 3.0%) and three different dose levels within each concentration (23.85,71.87 and 122.44 mg/bird). The data analysis showed significant difference (P < 0.05) among the three concentrations in respect of the duration of vocal distress calls. The change in concentration and dose had nonsignificant effects (P < 0.05) on the time from dosing to first call. Similarly, change in dose also had a non-significant effect (P > 0.05) on the duration of vocal calls. Numbers of calls were significantly affected with the increase in concentration of 4-AP, but within three dose levels this effect was in the reverse order. Field trials are required to test the efficacy of 4-AP at these three bait concentrations against this psittid.

Enzymatic Determination Of Tepp Residues On Red-Winged Blackbirds, Huo Ping Pan, Donald T. Harke, Allen R. Stickley Jr., David G. Decker

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

In 1966 the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, since renamed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was considering the use of commercial tetraethylpyrophosphate (TEPP) for spraying problem bird roosts. Although TEPP was known to be a fast degrading organophosphate, the Bureau decided that a determination of TEPP residues on birds sprayed under simulated field conditions would be useful in reaching a decision on possible use of this material. The determination was done with an enzymatic Warburg manometric method for measuring the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), a major cause of neurotoxication. It was found that at simulated roost temperatures …

The Pest Control Products Act Registration Requirements And Procedures, M. P. Stewart, G. W.J. Laidlaw

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

In Canada there are in excess of 100 laws that have some authority over the sale, use, or consequence of use of pesticides. This includes legislation adopted by federal, provincial, and municipal governments, but only a few of these relate only to pesticides. The principal federal law that governs sale and use of pesticides is the Pest Control Products Act. Under the authority of the P.C.P. Act, the Pesticides Division of Agriculture Canada reviews registration applications for all pesticides intended for use in Canada. The Act defines a control product as anything that is manufactured (including devices), represented, sold, or …

Food Habits And Molt Of Red-Winged Blackbirds In Relation To Sunflower And Corn Depredation, George M. Linz, Gregory Fox

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

From late July to early November 1979, 1980, and 1982, red-winged blackbirds were collected in sunflower, field corn, and at two roosts in Cass County, North Dakota. Their espophageal contents were examined, and they were also assessed for stage of molt. Both males and females contained a higher proportion of sunflower in sunflower fields than corn in field corn (P < 0.05). Male redwings consumed proportionally more sunflower and corn than did females. Females used more weed seeds than did the males. Redwing depredation in sunflower fields was highest from 26 August through 6 October, making up 71 % of male diets and 57% of the female diets. Foxtail seeds made up 17% of the male and 20% of the female diets during this time. In comparison, the proportion of corn found in red-wing diets was highest from 9 September through 6 October. During this time, male diets consisted of 52% corn and 37% weed seeds; females contained 22% corn and 75% weed seeds. These data suggest that red-wings are able to obtain sunflower easier than corn. Furthermore, weed seeds appear to be a viable alternate food source for red-wings. This food source may be especially important when the birds have difficulty meeting their dietary requirements from sunflower or corn. We suggest, therefore, that if sunflower were energetically expensive for red-wings to obtain, the proportion of weed seeds in their diets would increase. The annual feather molt of red-wings begins soon after nesting and is completed in 7-9 weeks (in North Dakota from late July through September). The process of molting and regrowing leathers is energy demanding. Red-wings are difficult to "move out" of the fields during molt; this is a time when sunflower need to be resistant to depredation.

Table Of Contents

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

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Agricultural Experiment Station News October 1983

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
REALLOCATION PLANS
PARTIAL RETIREMENT OPPORTUNITIES
ARS MAKES CHANGES
CHANGE OF DUTY STATION
NEW EVENT: IANR AG EXPO
NEW EXPERIMENT STATION PERSONNEL
1982-83 GRANT SUPPORT
PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
RESEARCH LEAVE PROGRAM SUSPENDED
NEB 44-020 - Efficient Use of Limited Water Supplies
NEW OR REVISED RESEARCH PROJECTS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
CHECK-OFF BOARD REMINDER

Repellent Potential Of Vegetable Tannins On Quelea Quelea, R. W. Bullard, M. H. Zeinelabdin, W. B. Jackson

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

In many developing nations around the world. pest birds are a serious threat to human food supplies. In the Sahelian zone of Africa, red·billed quelea (Quelea quelea) is of greatest concern. Cereal grain crops within the range of quelea are subject to severe depredations. Therefore, a wide variety of approaches have been taken to alleviate these losses. In 1972 Magor and Ward reported that during the past 20 years, hundreds of millions of birds have been killed by explosives, flame throwers, and lethal chemicals used to control birds assembled at night in roosts and breeding colonies. Despite this …

Quelea Control Operations In Tanzania, D. N. Manyanza

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Ever since the quelea became an economically important pest of cereal crops, many control measures have been used and dropped as they proved ineffective with time. Aerial spraying of quelea concentrations is hitherto the only practical means of control. Spraying operations are done together with a ground supporting team which seeks out que lea concentrations, maps their locations, and moves chemical and solvent to required areas. Aerial spraying for Q.quelea suffers from constraints which often impair its success.

Parakeet Damage To Sunflower In Pakistan, Abdul Aziz Khan, Shakeel Ahmad

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri (Scopoli) damage to sunflower heads was estimated in two provinces of Pakistan during the spring of 1981. In seven districts of Punjab the damage ranged from 5.0-23.28 %, with an average of 11.72 %. In rainfed areas the damge was as high as 71.43%, with average of 38.29%. In Sind the damage was on the higher order. In nine districts the damage ranged from 6.98-26.09%, with an average of 16.61 % and as high as 55% at some locations. Majority of fields (47%) had 10% damage or less, while less than 10% of fields had …

Blackbird And Starling Depredations At Tennessee Livestock Farms, James F. Glahn

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

The distribution and magnitude of blackbird/starling depredations were investigated at 287 randomly selected livestock farms inspected once and 24 farms repeatedly in· spected throughout the damage season in six selected livestock producing counties in Tennessee. Of those inspected once, 25.8% were categorized as having more than a negligible problem, including 6.3% with significant damage problems. Data on farms repeatedly inspected suggested that some damage was only intermittent, while others were sustained throughout the damage season. Starlings were the overall principal species involved in the damage problem, as well as being the species involved with the more significant and sustained problems. …

Review Of Elliott Coues: Naturalist And Frontier Historian By Paul Russell Cutright And Michael J. Brodhead, Gary E. Moulton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Vain, petty, vengeful, arrogant, and austere would be appropriate words to describe Elliott Coues. Yet, on occasion, he unselfishly aided a promising career and took up unpopular causes such as women's rights. Trained as a physician and employed as an army surgeon during much of his career, Coues nevertheless used much of his time to observe, study, read, and write about birds. Indeed, Coues (pronounced "cows") was one of America's outstanding ornithologists. He was also a prolific writer with more than six hundred titles to his credit, including a seminal work of taxonomic organization, Key to North American Birds (1872). …