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Book Review [June 1980]

Nebraska Bird Review

A Preliminary List of the Birds of Nebraska and Adjacent States, Paul A. Johnsgard, vi +119 + 37 pages of maps, mimeographed, paperbound, indexed. Privately printed, $5.00 (plus $1.00 postage). Available from Dr. Paul A. Johnsgard, School of Life Sciences, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588.

This book grew out of the work for Dr. Johnsgard's Birds of the Great Plains. and includes range maps from that book, and at the end of the Nebraska list short notes on birds reported from the Dakotas, Kansas, and Oklahoma, but which are not on the Nebraska list. For Nebraska …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (June 1980) 48(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

An Analysis of Migration Schedules of Non-passerine Birds in Nebraska .......................26

Book Review .......................37

The Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting .......................37

Correction to 1979 Fall Occurrence Report .......................39

1978 Nebraska Nesting Survey .......................39

Notes .......................44

1978 Nebraska Nesting Survey, Esther V. Bennett

Nebraska Bird Review

Data on the 1978 nesting season in Nebraska were receivead from 17 observers, reporting on 71 species from 27 counties. Counties in the tabulation are listed in a west to east order, with the northernmost of approximately equal locations given first. Numbers represent Nest-Record Cards. Letters are from the NOU Nesting Report forms: Y represents young observed; F represents carrying food; and N represents nests for which no Nest-Record Card was submitted. Fifty·one species were reported on 187 North American Nest·Record Cards. The counties, with the column numbers on the tabulation shown in parentheses, and the contributors, were: Adams (20) …

An Analysis Of Migration Schedules Of Non-Passerine Birds In Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard

Nebraska Bird Review

One of the major components of the Nebraska Bird Review since its inception has been the annual spring migration and occurrence report, and in more recent years the fall occurrence report has become equally important. Yet, other than an uncompleted effort by W. F. Rapp, Jr. to summarize the first 25 years of spring migration data, these records apparently have not been analyzed by anyone. Part of the problem is the sheer mass of data to be assimilated, and a second issue is the question of how to classify certain species, for the analysis of a winter visitor required different …

Notes [June 1980], Ben G. Ohlander

Nebraska Bird Review

GYRAFALCONS, PRAIRIE FALCONS. Of great interest are reports again this season of Gyrafalcons in Nebraska. At least three confirmed sightings were reported by knowledgeable individuals. First, Gary and Jackie Ohman, of Battle Creek, sighted an immature gray phase male Gyrafalcon about 3 miles west of Thedford, Thomas Co., on 25 September 1979. On 11 November 1979 I observed an immature male gray phase Gyrafalcon about 12 miles southwest of Minden, Kearney Co. I was able to approach as close as20 feet from the bird in my car. Athird reported sighting occurred in early December 1979 about 4 miles west of …

Notes- Nebraska Bird Review (June 1980), Ben G. Ohlander

Nebraska Bird Review

NOTES

GYRAFALCONS, PRAIRIE FALCONS. Of great interest are reports again this season of Gyrafalcons in Nebraska. At least three confirmed sightings were reported by knowledgeable individuals. First, Gary and Jackie Ohman, of Battle Creek, sighted an immature gray phase male Gyrafalcon about 3 miles west of Thedford, Thomas Co., on 25 September 1979. On 11 November 1979 I observed an immature male gray phase Gyrafalcon about 12 miles southwest of Minden, Kearney Co. Iwas able to approach as close as 20 feet from the bird in my car. Athird reported sighting occurred in early December 1979 about 4 miles west …

The Seventy-Ninth Annual Meeting

Nebraska Bird Review

The Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting was held at the 4-H Camp in the Bessey Division of the Nebraska National Forest, near Halsey, 17 and 18 May, 1980. The attendance at this meeting was 73, compared to "seventy-odd" at the 1973 meeting and 87 at the 1970 meeting, both held at the Camp. The formal program, which was held to a minimum to maximize the time available for birding consisted of demonstrations of bird banding by Hazel and Fitzhugh Diggs of Hamburg, Iowa, and Ruth Green of Bellevue, and at the annual banquet a slide-illustrated talk by David Griffiths, of Pueblo, Colorado, …

1979 Treasurer's Report

Nebraska Bird Review

1979 Treasurer's Report

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Book Reviews [March 1980], R. G. Cortelyou

Nebraska Bird Review

Reviews of three books: Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution by Paul A. Johnsgard, Welcome the Birds to Your Home by Jane and Will Curtis, and Birding Areas of Iowa by Peter C. Peterson.

Notes- Nebraska Bird Review (March 1980)

Nebraska Bird Review

NOTES

WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. Two White-winged Scoters were taken in November 1979 at some pond in Sarpy Co. and taken to the Plattsmouth Refuge for identification.

- Ruth C. Green, 506 West 31st Avenue, Bellevue, 68005

AMERICAN WOODCOCK. Three American Woodcocks (Philohela minor) were taken as game along the Platte River on 11 October 1979. They were collected about 8:30 AM approximately 2 miles south and 2 miles west of Kearney, in Kearney Co. A specimen was examined by Dr. John C.W. Bliese, of Kearney State College, who encouraged the sending in of this report.

The writer has hunted these birds …

Correction To 1979 Spring Migration Report

Nebraska Bird Review

CORRECTION TO 1979 SPRING MIGRATION REPORT. The date for Orchard Oriole in Scottsbluff Co. should be 24 May, rather than March, and the following paragraph was omitted:

Sioux, Mitchell RFD, 12.3 species, David and Helen (reporter) Hughson.

1979 Christmas Count

Nebraska Bird Review

Ninety-nine species (four less than last year) were reported in the 1979 Christmas Count, and one species was reported present but not seen on the count. (There was no such species reported last year.) This drop was in spite of one more count - from Kearney - this year. The number of additional races reported - three - was the same as last year. The individual count this year was 188,102 compared to 90,000 last year, and most of the increase was due to the Snow Goose and Mallard counts along the Missouri River, which in turn was due to …

Twenty-One Years Of Say's Phoebes, Doris Gates

Nebraska Bird Review

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lindeken live 10.5 miles northeast of Chadron, Nebraska, in a home with a big picture window over the kitchen sink, a window that faces the Sheridan Gates, a formation which is in Sheridan County across the Dawes County line. Outside the window is a small platform on which Say's Phoebes have nested for many years.

The first year the Lindekens were aware of Say's Phoebes was in 1958 when a pair nested in the garage, a building which is attached to the house. The birds were "messy" but they were allowed to remain through the summer. …

Observations Of Late Fall Migratory Sandhill Cranes, Platte River, Nebraska, John G. Aronson

Nebraska Bird Review

Observations of migratory Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) were made on the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska. On 26 November 1978, night roosting in the Platte River occurred on thin ice (less than 2 cm) in open areas which were protected by riparian vegetation from cold north winds (35-40 km/hr-NNW, -10°C). Roosting Cranes were spaced very closely (less than 0.5 m) during evening and early morning hours, with increased spacing (about 1.0 m) occurring during late morning. A diagram of the roost area was prepared. The roost was located near the northern river bank in a river stretch characterized …

1979 (Twenty-Second) Fall Occurrence Report

Nebraska Bird Review

Two hundred eighty four species (plus a possible Black Rail) are listed in this report, from eleven localities. Comparable figures for prior years are: 269 species from twelve localities in 1978,267 from eleven in. 19-77, and 271 from eleven in 1976.

The information is presented in a rough west (left) to east (right) order, with locations of about the same longitude listed with the northernmost first (except for Washington Co.). Two dates indicate the first and last records for the period. The symbols used are:

JI, Au, Sp, Ot, No, and Dm for the months

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (March 1980) 48(1)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

1979 (Twenty-second) Fall Occurrence Report .......................3

Correction to 1979 Spring Migration Report .......................15

1979 Christmas Count .......................15

Observations of Late Fall Migratory Sandhill Cranes, Platte River, Nebraska .......................20

Twenty-one Years of Say's Phoebes.......................21

A Ground Dove at DeSoto NWR .......................22

Book Reviews.......................22

Notes.......................23

A Ground Dove At Desoto Nwr, Loren Padelford, Babs Padelford

Nebraska Bird Review

A Ground Dove was sighted at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge on 18 November 1979, for about ten minutes around 11 AM, in the hedgerows opposite the entrance to the nature trail, south of the swimming beach.

It was a small dove, only slightly longer but chunkier than Tree Sparrows sitting in the same small tree. There was gray scalloping on the head and breast, the eye was dark, the beak light colored at the base, with the rest appearing dark. The wing was grayish with black speckling from shoulder to tip. We noticed a short tail when the bird was …

The Nebraska Bird Review- Whole Issue March 1980 Volume 48 Number 1

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Treasurer's Report ................2
1979 (Twenty-second) Fall Occurrence Report....................3
Correction to 1979 Spring Migration Report ...............15
1979 Christmas Count ..............................15
Observations of Late Fall Migratory Sandhill Cranes, Platte River, Nebraska ........20
Twenty-one Years of Say's Phoebes..........................21
A Ground Dove at DeSoto NWR ...........................22
Book Reviews ..........................22
Notes...............................23

Nongame Birds Of The Rocky Mountain Spruce- Fir Forests And Their Management, Kimberly G. Smith

T.W. "Doc" Daniel Experimental Forest

Spruce-fir forests in the Rocky Mountains consist mainly of Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir. The breeding avifaunas in these forests show remarkable consistency in composition along a latitudinal gradient from Montana to Arizona and New Mexico, and with avian communities in the Hudsonian life zone in Washington, Oregon, and California. Woodpeckers, corvids, and seed-eating finches are the most common components. Only the Golden Eagle and a few other raptors are threatened or endangered. Few species winter in these high mountain forests. The distribution of many species is controlled primarily by the vegetation physiognomy, a variable under the control of the …

Analyses Of Illinois Wild Turkey Habitat And April Foods, Kim D. Price

Masters Theses

A vegetative analysis of turkey habitat was conducted in Alexander, Jackson, Union, and Calhoun Counties, Illinois. From these studies it was determined that turkeys inhabit relatively open stands of timber with agricultural fields and forest clearings in close proximity. Species of Quercus comprise approximately 40% or more of the tree species sampled, with Q. alba, Q. rubra, and Q. velutina being the most dominant. Found growing in association with Quercus are species of Carya, Cornus florida, Acer saccharum, Sassafras albidum, Fraxinus americana, and Ulmus rubra, in varying concentrations. The examination of food …

Evaluation Of Potential Wild Turkey Habitat In Eastern Illinois, Cara B. Daugherty

Masters Theses

Reestablishment of the wild turkey has been successful in the southern part of Illinois where large established tracts of woodland occur. However, turkeys are capable of surviving in areas with less forest cover, if food, nesting materials and protection are available. This project evaluated the potential turkey habitat of a 14-county area of eastern Illinois along the drainage of the Wabash River. Six potential release sites were selected and the habitat evaluated. In these areas, oak (Quercus spp.) and hickory (Carya spp.) were the dominant tree species. Disturbance from human populations was determined in each of …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (December 1979) 47(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Great Gray Owl Distribution, Winter 1977-78 ....................................... 62

Book Reviews .................................................................. 65

Notes ......................................................................... 66

Index of Volume 47 ............................................................. 70

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (September 1979) 47(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1979 (Fifty-fourth) Spring Migration and Occurrence Report .......................... 42

The Seventy-eight Annual Meeting ................................................ 54

1979 Fall Field Day................................. 55

Book Reviews.............................................................. 56

Successful Golden Eagle Nest in Southwest Nebraska ............................... 57

Notes ......................................................................... 57

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (June 1979) 47(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1978 (Twenty-first) Fall Occurrence Report ........................................ 22

Addition to 1978 Spring Migration Report .......................................... 33

1978 Christmas Count........................................................... 33

Some Comments on "The Breeding Birds of Nebraska”............................. 38

A Second Nesting Record for Merlins in Nebraska .................................. 39

Great Black-backed Gull near Omaha............................................. 39

Subject And Author Index For Bulletins Of The Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, Mohini Mundkur

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin #453, 68 pages.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (March 1979) 47(1)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1978 Treasurer's Report ........................................ 2

The Breeding Birds of Nebraska. ...........................................3

Book Reviews .............................................................. 17, 19

Notes ..................................................................... 17, 19

Effect Of Size And Type Of Operation On The Cost Of Producing Eggs In Connecticut, The, Donald G. Stitts, Eisenhower J. Douglas

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

Modifications And Improvements In The Formax Method Of Preparing Small Avian Study Specimens, Martin A. Floyd, Gary A. Heidt

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Coccidian Parasites Of Wild Turkeys, Meleagris Gallopavo Silvestris, In Illinois, D. Michael Watkins

Masters Theses

Fecal samples from 124 wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris), collected in three southern Illinois counties, were examined for coccidia. Three and two tenths percent (4) of the birds sampled were infected with Eimeria of apparently four different species. These species were tentatively designated as: E. meleagridis, E. adendeides, E. meleagrimitis and E. subrotunda.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (December 1978) 46(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1978 (Fifty-third) Spring Migration and Occurrence Report

Notes ...................86

1978 Fall Field Day ...................86

Index of Volume XXXXVI ...................87

Index of Volume XXXXVI ...................87