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Birding Nebraska’S Central Platte Valley And Rainwater Basin, Paul A. Johnsgard Dec 2015

Birding Nebraska’S Central Platte Valley And Rainwater Basin, Paul A. Johnsgard

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Central Nebraska's Platte River and Rainwater Basin are primary stops in the migration patterns of numerous North American waterfowl, including sandhill and whooping cranes, sandpipers, geese, ducks, gulls, and shorebirds of many types. Upland species also abound there as well. The region's most eminent ornithologist provides birding and travel information for casual tourists and hard-core enthusiasts: locations, seasons, events, routes, accommodations, contacts, etc. A complete species list is also included. This birders' guide is as essential as your boots and binoculars.

The central Platte River Valley region, as defined by Brown & Johnsgard (2012) and adopted here, encompasses 12 south-central …


Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections Nov 2015

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

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Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections Aug 2015

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

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At Home And At Large In The Great Plains: Essays And Memories, Paul A. Johnsgard Jul 2015

At Home And At Large In The Great Plains: Essays And Memories, Paul A. Johnsgard

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This volume presents fourteen essays (some updated) that originally appeared in Prairie Fire, a monthly free newspaper that for seven years (as of 2015) has carried important messages of social, environmental, and economic issues in a mature and nonpartisan manner to tens of thousands of residents of Nebraska, western Iowa, eastern Colorado, and southern South Dakota, and by mail to subscribers in the rest of the world. These essays discuss the North American east-west ecological boundaries, spring migration events, birds at the bird feeder, feathered survivors of a glacial past, the threatened sharp-tailed grouse of Nebraska and South Dakota, and …


Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections May 2015

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

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Global Warming And Population Responses Among Great Plains Birds, Paul A. Johnsgard Feb 2015

Global Warming And Population Responses Among Great Plains Birds, Paul A. Johnsgard

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Based on an analysis of 47 years (1967–2014) of Audubon Christmas Bird Counts (CBC), evidence for population changes and shifts in early winter (late December) ranges of nearly 150 species of birds in the Great Plains states is summarized, a region defined as including the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas panhandle. The rationale for this study had its origins in Terry Root’s 1988 Atlas of North American Wintering Birds. Root’s landmark study provided a baseline for evaluating the nationwide winter distributions of 253 North American birds in the mid-20th century, using data from the National Audubon Society’s …


Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collection Feb 2015

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 91, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collection

Kentucky Warbler

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Data For Sandler Et Al. 2015, Amanda G. Sandler, Libby C. Megna, James L. Hayward, Shandelle M. Henson, Cynthia M. Tkachuck, Richard D. Tkachuck Jan 2015

Data For Sandler Et Al. 2015, Amanda G. Sandler, Libby C. Megna, James L. Hayward, Shandelle M. Henson, Cynthia M. Tkachuck, Richard D. Tkachuck

Shandelle M. Henson

These data are archived for the paper "Every-other-day clutch-initiation synchrony in ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis)" by Sandler et al., submitted