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Outwitting The House Sparrow [Passer Domesticus (Linnaeus)], William D. Fitzwater

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

With the decline of house sparrow populations during the first quarter of this century, control research attention shifted to other avian species so little new is available on either life history studies or management. Solutions to animal damage control problems are generally through (1) environmental controls, (2) protection of crops and/or sites, and (3) population reduction. In the case of sparrow problems, environmental controls are of limited application as the birds prefer the habitat modifications made by man. Protection of crops or sites relies on repellents which are generally ineffective against this particular species. The only viable population level controls …

Poster Session Abstracts

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Poster Abstracts include:

● FURBEARER TRAPPER-HUNTER EDUCATION IN KANSAS
EDWARD K. BOGGESS and F. ROBERT HENDERSON, Cooperative Extension Service, Kansas State University

● A FLOW CHART FOR HOUSE MOUSE CONTROL
DARYL D. FISHER and ROBERT M. Timm, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

● BIRD DRAMAGE CONTROL AND DISPERSAL RECORDINGS
RON J. JOHNSON and ROBERT H. SCHMIDT, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

● GROUND SQUIRREL CONTROL IN NEWLY PLANTED GRAlN FIELDS
ANN E. KOLHLER and RON J. JOHNSON, Department of Forestry. Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

● WOODPECKER DAMAGE TO HOUSES AND …

Formula To Build A Better "Rat Trap" Rodenticide, George W.J. Laidlaw

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

In the time that the Pesticides Division of Agriculture Canada has been evaluating rodenticides, it has become apparent that the formulated product's efficacy is dependent on the character of the inert ingredients as well as on the actual active toxicant. The type of food, its level of manufacture, the adhesive-binder, the attractants and preservatives can each affect the efficiency of the active ingredient. Currently, very serious problems have arisen because of the anticoagulant resistance and bait shyness that rodents have developed towards existing products.

A Vertebrate Ipm Project In Nebraska, Robert M. Timm

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

An Integrated Pest Management project in Nebraska is assisting farmers, particularly pork producers, in controlling damage caused by Norway rats, house mice, house sparrows, and starlings. This extension program also provides information on control of pocket gophers in alfalfa and on rangelands. Integrated control recommendations include rodent- and bird-proof construction, limitation of food and shelter, traps, and toxicants (rodenticides and avicides). The project is attempting to gather data on economic damage, including structural damage to confinement buildings, caused by these pests. This information will be used to assist producers in deciding when to initiate control.

Panel Discussion: Integrated Pest Management—A Viable Approach To Wildlife Damage Control?, Roger E. Gold Moderator

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Questions & answers. Questioners and respondents include:
Roger E. Gold, Moderator
Robert M. Timm
Bill Ahlschwede
Rex E. Marsh
George Laidlaw
James Miller
Terry Salmon

A Forecasting-Programming Method For Swine Production-Marketing Decisions, Larry Janssen, James B. Hassler

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This study reports on the development and progress of a forecasting-programming model for swine inventory management and marketing decisions. This model considers interrelationships between breeding herd, feeder pig and finishing hog activities. Objectives were: 1. To structure a dynamic operational decision model for a modern farrow-to-finish swine confinement unit which conforms with economic theory, uses price and cost forecast information and is as consistent as possible with current production scheduling practices. 2. To use and test this model during a combined production and marketing decision process and to compare economic results with results of a standard strategy.

Germ Plasm Evaluation Program- Progress Report No. 9, Larry V. Cundiff, Keith E. Gregory, Robert M. Koch, Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

This report provides reproduction and maternal performance data for cows in each cycle and phase of the Germ Plasm Evaluation Program.

The cattle Germ Plasm Evaluation Program has been conducted in three cycles. Cycle I involved breeding Hereford, Angus, Jersey, South Devon, Limousin, Simmental, and Charolais bulls by artificial insemination (AI) to Hereford and Angus cows to produce three calf crops (Cycle I, Phase 2) in the spring of 1970, 1971 and 1972.

Cycle II. initiated with the 1972 breeding season involved the Hereford and Angus cows used in the first cycle. These cows were bred by AI to Hereford, …

Agricultural Experiment Station News October 1981

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
From the Director’s Desk
The Curiosity Factor
IANR - 1982 Conference
Grants and Contracts
Sahs Sez
Energy Farm Progress
North Platte Station
Projects Approved
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS - September 1981
New Experiment Station Personnel

The New Rural History: Defining The Parameters, Robert P. Swierenga

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the last ten years the "new social history" and its stepchild the "new urban history" have become the dominant sub field s within the history discipline; but the "new rural history" remains an orphan child with little recognized place as yet in academic curricula or historical writings.¹ Unlike urban history, which is studied as a coherent whole, aspects of rural history are usually discussed under such rubrics as the westward movement, agricultural history, land history, frontier development, Indian history, and so forth.

The implicit assumption behind this disjointed scholarly perception is that rural history is an incongruity in …

Review Of Panhandle Cowboy By John R. Erickson, Nellie Snyder Yost

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a valuable contribution to the history of the working cowboy and the ranches that brought him into being. The twentieth century has furnished a wealth of books, both historical and fictional, delineating the cowboy and his way of life. Most have dealt with the old-time cowboy who followed cattle up the long trails from Texas and carved out his livelihood on the open ranges of the West. Few have been written on the modern cowboy, living within fences and under vastly changed conditions.

John Erickson has provided this modern version. An excellent writer, Erickson has spiced his …

Animal Science Newsletter, Fall 1981

Department of Animal Science: Departmental News

Contents:

Animal Science Complex Completion Gains Support

New Faculty in Animal Science

Coming Events

Department Hosts Midwestern Animal Science Society Meetings

Students Visit European Livestock Establishments

Merlyn Carlson Selected as Hall of Fame Honoree

Animal Science Faculty Receive National Recognition

New Facility For Range Beef Research

Animal Science Students Receive Special Recognitions

Winkler Scholarship Established

Block and Bridle Club Officers for Fall Semester

Beef Cattle Teaching Herds on the Move

Emeriti Faculty Continue Interest in Department

Dynamics, Movements, And Feeding Ecology Of A Newly Protected Wolf Population In Northwestern Minnesota, Steven H. Fritts, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The gray wolf Canis lupus occupies only about 1 percent of its former range in the lower 48 states (Mech 1974a). Most of the range is in northern Minnesota, where the resident population is classified as "threatened" by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Wolves have been and will continue to be the subject of considerable controversy in Minnesota.

The first scientific study of wolves in Minnesota was conducted by Olson (1938a,b). That and all subsequent re- search was in the Superior National Forest (SNF) of northeastern Minnesota even though wolves inhabit approximately the northern third of the state. Consequently, …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 13, Numbers 3 And 4. September - December 1981

The Prairie Naturalist

PROVISIONAL CHECKLIST OF MAMMALS OF SOUTH DAKOTA ▪ J. R. Choate and J. K. Jones, Jr.

LABORATORY FEEDING PREFERENCES OF THREE SMALL MAMMALS FOR FIVE TREE SPECIES ▪ T. G. Barnes and T. A. Schaid

NESTLING DIETS OF RED-WINGED AND YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS ON PLAYA LAKES OF WEST TEXAS ▪ D. H. Fischer and E. C. Bolen

COMPARISON OF FOUR NORTH DAKOTA IMPOUNDMENTS AND FACTORS AFFECTING

THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPOUNDMENT PARASITOFAUNA ▪ H. L. Holloway, Jr. and N. T. Hagstrom

FIRST STATE RECORD OF RICHARDSON'S GROUND SQUIRREL IN IOWA ▪ R. P. Lampe, J. B. Bowles, and R. Spengler

THE EFFECT …

Geology Of Lake Mcconaughy Area, Keith County, Nebraska, Roger K. Pabian, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., Frankie Gould

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Rocks cropping out along the North Platte River valley at Lake McConaughy provide a glimpse into Nebraska's geologic past. Here are excellent exposures of the Ogallala Group, which consists of continental sedimentary rocks deposited during the Miocene epoch of the Tertiary period of geologic time. This group of rocks extends throughout much of Nebraska (see geologic bedrock map on outside back cover) but is overlain in most places by younger stream and wind deposits of Pliocene(?) and Pleistocene age. Easily accessible, the Ogallala outcrops contain locally abundant fossils of seeds, casts of pedotubules, and occasional fossils of vertebrate animals such …

The Probe, Issue 16 - September 1981

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE National Animal Damage Control Association No. 15 September, 1981
Kelly Keene was killed by a coyote as she left her house in Glendale (Calif.) on her way to preschool classes.
"SHEEP PERFUME" IS CHIC FOR COYOTES
According to the by-laws, NADCA has to hold its' first election.
We appreciate Bill Jackson (Director, Center of Environmental Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio) checking further on our note in PROBE No. 15 about the rabid mouse in Nebraska.
CAGE TRAP
The price tag on the 101 mile Washington, D.C. transit system is now estimated at $10 billion and going up …

Additional Christmas Count

Nebraska Bird Review

Additional Christmas Count

Information on the Norfolk Christmas Count was received after the tabulation was published (NBR). The count was taken 20 December 1980 from 7 AM to 5:30 PM, temperature was from -1 ° to 15° F, and wind from the south at 8 mph. The count was centered on the intersection of US 275 and US 81 (13th Street and Norfolk Avenue). Since the 15 December 1979 count was not included in the 1979 tabulation (NBR 48:15) it is also included (the first figure is for 1979).

Nebraska Bird Review- Whole Issue September 1981 Volume 49 Number 3

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1981 (Fifty-sixth) Spring Migratlon and Occurrence Report.........38

Breeding Season Occurrence of Sharp-Shinned Hawks in Southeast Nebraska.........44

Breeding of the Least Tern and Piping Plover on the lower Platte River, Nebraska.........45

Breeding of the Great tailed Grackle In Lancaster County.........52

Notes.........53

Additional Christmas Count......... 54

Book Review......... 56

1981 (Fifty-Sixth) Spring Migration And Occurrence Report

Nebraska Bird Review

Two hundred ninety-eight species are listed in this report, from 12 locations. The comparable figures from 1980 are 298 species from 14 locations; 1979292 from 12; and 1978300 from 13.

The symbols used in the tabulation are:

Ja, Fe, Mr, Ap, My, and Je for the months

P to indicate a species which is present all the year, although the same individuals may not be present during the whole year, and the numbers may vary greatly between periods. p to indicate a species which is permanent in Garden Co. but not at the Refuge. -S to indicate a species which …

Book Review Nebraska Bird Review Sep 1981 49(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

Furbearing Animals of North America, Leonard Lee Rue III, viii +344 pages, 7½ x 9½, Crown Publishers, Inc. New York. Hardbound, indexed, $19.95.

The Bird Identification Calendar, Common Birds of North America, 1982, illustrated by John Sill. Prepared under the direction of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. 12 x 9. The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vermont. With self-mailer, $6.95.

Masthead From Nebraska Bird Review (September 1981) 49(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

Published quarterly in March. June. September. and December by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union. Inc. as its official journal and sent free to all members who are not in anears for dues. Subscriptions (on acalendar year basts only) are $6.00 per year in the United States and $7.00 per year in all other countries, payable in advance. Single numbers are $1.75 each, postpaid.

Memberships (on a calendar year basis only): Student. $3.00; Active. $7.00; Sustaining. $15.00; Family Active. $10.00; Family. Sustaining. $20.00; Life. $100.00.

Notes [September 1981]

Nebraska Bird Review

GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE. The note on Great-tailed Grackles at Columbus (NBR 49:28) incorrectly described them as "nesting"; Prof. Holtz's report said only "a pair of Greattailed Grackles". This error apparently came from overloading memory before typing in transcribing the report.

CHASE COUNTY. Iola Pennington, Wauneta, made five reports on her observations at Wauneta, Enders Reservoir, and Champion from 25 February to 26 April 1981. The birds on the first report had been there earlier, and except for the last report only the more notable species were reported: Geese: Canada 2/25, Snow 4/2; Mallard 2/25-4/26, Gadwall 3/27, Pintail 2/254/ 2; Teal: Green-winged …

Proceedings Of 14th Conference Prairie Grouse Technical Council. September 23-25, 1981: Halsey, Nebraska

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: White Papers, Conference Presentations, and Manuscripts

HOST: Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

INTRODUCTION - Jim Mitchell, Upland Game Specialist, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (Conference Coordinator)

WELCOME - Bill Bailey, Assistant Director, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

IN MEMORIAM — This publication is dedicated to Ken Robertson

THE NEBRASKA SANDHILLS - AN OVERVIEW, Jon Farrar, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

PRAIRIE GROUSE IN THE SANDHILLS, Carl W. Wolfe, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

GROUSE ON fflE BESSEY DIVISION NEBRASKA NATIONAL FOREST, Steve Marquardt, U.S. Forest Service

EXPERIMENTAL SHARP-TAILED GROUSE INTRODUCTIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA, John J. Kriz, Pennsylvania Game Commission

ANALYSIS OF GREATER PRAIRIE CHICKEN POPULATION AND HARVEST …

Key To Trematodes Reported In Waterfowl, Malcolm Edwin Mcdonald

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

This key is the second in a series for identification of the helminths reported in waterfowl (Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes). The first was a key to nematodes (McDonald 1974).

The trematodes show the greatest variety of forms among the helminth parasites of waterfowl, including over half of all species reported; sometimes this group also includes the greatest part of the worms in a single bird. Over 500 species of trematodes have been reported in waterfowl. Almost all of these have been included in the present set of keys; it was not possible, however, to obtain the descriptions of a few …

Vegetative Filter Treatment Of Livestock Feedlot Runoff, Elbert C. Dickey, D. H. Vanderholm

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Four vegetative filters were installed on feedlots in central and northern Illinois. Two configurations were used: channelized Dow and overland Dow. After settling for partial solids removal, runoff was applied directly to the filters and allowed to Dow from the inlet to the outlet section. Results from measurement analyses and sampling of influent, effluent, and surface Dow at intermediate points were reported.

Most runoff events were infiltrated completely, resulting in no filter discharge. Runoff from larger events was partially discharged. Filters removed as much as 95% of nutrients and oxygen-demanding materials from the applied runoff on a weight basis, and …

Immunochemical Studies Of Conjugates Of Isomaltosyl Oligosaccharides To Lip I. Antigenicity Of The Glycolipids And The Production Of Specific Antibodies In Rabbits, Charles Wood, Elvin Kabat

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

The antigenicity of lipids is still ill-defined, and there is very little evidence that any pure lipid by itself will act as an antigen . To produce an immune response they must be complexed with or coupled to carriers (1-6) . Only glycosphingolipids and phosphatides have been found to function as haptens when mixed with carriers such as serum albumin (7), methylated bovine serum albumin (8), or other auxillary lipids (9-11), or when the glycolipid was incorporated into liposomes (12). Antibodies to glycolipids are usually directed primarily against the carbohydrate moiety (1, 7, 13, 14), and there is little evidence …

Inhibition Of In Vitro Macrophage Digestion Capacity By Infection With Leishmania Donovani (Protozoa: Kinetoplastida), Gerald F. Kutish, John J. Janovy Jr.

John J. Janovy, Jr. Publications

Promastigotes of Leishmania donovani transformed into amastigotes and survived in cultured macrophages. Promastigotes of Leptomonas costoris, a kinetoplastid parasite of water striders, transformed into amastigotes but did not survive in cultured macrophages. A significant difference in size between the two species of parasitic protozoa allowed development of a bioassay in which the in vitro digestion rate of L. costoris was taken as a measure of macrophage digestive capacity following preinfection with L. donovani. In a 12- to 24-hr period, macrophage cultures infected with the 2S strain of L. donovani retained 50% more L. costoris than did control macrophages …

Terranova Ceticola N. Sp. (Nematoda: Anisakidae) From The Dwarf Sperm Whale, Kogia Simus (Owen), In The Gulf Of Mexico, Thomas L. Deardorff, Robin M. Overstreet

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Terranova ceticola n. sp. is described from specimens in the stomachs of an individual dwarf sperm whale, Kogia simus, which stranded on the beach at Biloxi, Mississippi. It is characterized by possessing a single pair of medial preanal papillae, 38 to 40 pairs of lateral preanal papillae, five pairs of postanal papillae. and spicules 1 to 2% of the body length and by lacking cuticular plates at the posterior anal lip of males.

Results Of The Alcoa Foundation-Suriname Expeditions. V. Noteworthy Records Of Surinamese Mammals, Hugh H. Genoways, Stephen L. Williams, Jane A. Groen

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

The occurrence of seven species of mammals previously unknown in Suriname is documented. The new taxa recorded include Didelphis albiventris, Peropteryx macrotis, Lonchorhina aurita, Micronycteris hirsuta, Vampyrodes caraccioli, Furipterus horrens, and Thyroptera discifera . Additional information is provided on several species already known to occur in Suriname, including Metachirus nudicaudatus, Peronymus leucopterus, Mimon bennettii, Tonatia carrikeri, T. schulzi, Anoura geoffroyi, Choerniscus intermedius, Mesophylla macconnelli, Neaeomys guianae, Holochilus brasiliensis, and Potos fiavus.

Results Of The Alcoa Foundation-Suriname Expeditions. Vi. Additional Chromosomal Data For Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) From Suriname, Robert J. Baker, Hugh H. Genoways, Paisley A. Seyfarth

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

As part of ongoing studies of the bats of Suriname, karyotypic information is presented for seventeen species. Chromosomal data are presented for the first time for Peronymus leucopterus, Peropteryx macrotis, Mimon bennettii, Artibeus concolor, Furipterus horrens, and Thyroptera discifera. Additional chromosomal data are presented for eleven other species of bats for which some information was available previously.

Results Of The Tenth International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Grown In 1978, S. L. Kuhr, V. A. Johnson, P. J. Mattern, K. D. Wilhelmi, J. W. Schmidt

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This is the tenth report of results from an International Winter Wheat Performance Nursery (IWWPN) organized in 1968 by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation with the Science and Education Administration (SEA), U.S. Department of Agriculture, under contract number AID/ta-C-1093 with the U.S. International Development Corporation, Agency for International Development. The Nursery was designed to (1) test the adaptation and stability of winter wheat cultivars in a range of latitudes, daylengths, fertility conditions, water management regimes, and disease complexes; (2) identify superior winter cultivars to serve as recipient genotypes for high protein and high lysine genes: (3) test the …