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Nebraska Bird Review (April 1961) 29(2), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

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Wintering Bald Eagles in Nebraska, 1959-1960 ........................26

1956-1960 Nesting Reports ........................31

Dr. George Miksch Sutton ........................35

Dr. Olin Sewell Pettingill, Jr......................... 36

Fall Field Trips and Winter Meeting ........................37

Treasurer's Report ........................38

General Notes ........................39

Letter To The Editor ........................40

Book Reviews........................40

Worms In Poultry, H D. Seddon

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

WORMS occurring in poultry in Western Australia include both round worms and tapeworms.

However, the intestinal round worm (Ascaridia galli) which is found in the small intestine and duodenum is by far the most important and its effects the most serious.

Pullorum Tested Poultry Flocks : 1961, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THIS year's pullorum tests of poultry flocks have revealed the lowest incidence of reactors since the tests began. Results are recorded below.

Third West Australian Random Sample Egg Laying Test : 1959-1960, R H. Morris

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

AS part of the poultry improvement plan for Western Australia, the Department of Agriculture inaugurated a random sample laying test for commercial grade chickens at the Poultry Research Station, Herdsman Lake, in 1957.

The results of the first test appeared in the May-June, 1959 issue of the Journal of Agriculture and those of the second test in the June, 1960 issue.

Feeding For Egg Yolk Colour, P Smetana

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

ON July 3, 1961, the Western Australian Egg Marketing Board commenced paying a bonus to producers for yolk colour.

This is an extremely important step in the marketing of eggs and should have a widespread beneficial effect on the poultry industry of this State.

Automatic Waterers For Day Old Chickens, P Smetana, W. Ward

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

ONE of the most tedious and time consuming tasks on a poultry farm is the provision of water to chicks from day old up to the age of three or four weeks.

Most poultry farmers use half-gallon glass fonts with metal bases for the first few weeks, until the chicks are old enough to use the automatic watering system usually situated along one wall of the brooder house.

This cumbersome glass font system can be replaced by the cheap and easily installed automatic watering system described below. This system has already been adopted by several local poultry farmers.

Incubation, R V. Vagg

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

TH E artificial incubation of eggs is not a recent innovation. For many centuries, some species of birds—our mallee-hen being a typical example—have hatched out their eggs by the heat generated in mounds of decaying vegetation.Furthermore, they have shown considerable skill in maintaining the mounds at uniform temperatures throughout the hatching period.

A number of reptiles employ similar methods to hatch their eggs, although in these instances there does not seem to be the same need for carefully-controlled temperatures

Poultry Diseases In Western Australia, I. J. Miller, P Smetana

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

POULTRY diseases constitute a major factor in losses sustained by the industry.

It is the aim of this article to provide a ready source of information to assist the poultry farmer in understanding the common disease conditions that he is likely to encounter and to suggest possible means of control and treatment.

Nebraska Bird Review (January 1961) 29(1), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

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Notes On Bird Distribution In The Central Plains ...................2

Excerpts From Letters ...................23

Nebraska Bird Review (October 1960) 28(4), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

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Thirty-Sixth Annual Cooperative Spring Migration and Occurrence Report ...............58

Index ...............81

Nebraska Bird Review (July 1960) 28(3), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

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Fall Roosting Sites and Flights of the Common Grackel and Associated Species in Kearney, Nebraska, 1959 ..................34

The Least Tern ..................39

Current Problems in Hawk and Owl Protection and Legislation ..................43

Identification of Birds in Flight.................. 45

Meetings and Reports ..................52

General Notes.................. 53

Letters to the Editor ..................55

Nebraska Bird Review (April 1960) 28(2), Whole Issue

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Golden Eagles ......................18

History and Status of Introduced Game Birds In Nebraska ..........................19

A Day of Bird Banding ..........................23

A Robin Study in Kearney, Nebraska ..........................24

1959 Nesting Report ..........................27

Fredrick J. Adams ..........................28

General Notes ..........................29

Meetings ..........................30

Treasurers' Report.......................... 30

Letters to the Editor ..........................32

Second West Australian Random Sample Egg Laying Tests : 1958-59, R H. Morris

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

4S part of the poultry improvement plan for Western Australia, the Department of Agriculture inaugurated a random sample laying test for commercial grade chickens at the Poultry Research Station, Herdsman Lake, in 1957.

Better Rations For Broiler Production, P Smetana

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

DURING 1959, trials were conducted at the Poultry Research Station, Herdsman Lake, with the object of developing a broiler-feeding ration that was better than the one at present recommended by the Department of Agriculture and commonly used by local broiler producers.

Pullorum-Tested Poultry Flocks : 1960, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

EARLY in 1955, an amendment to the Stock Diseases Act made blood-testing compulsory for all commercial breeding and hatchery flocks of poultry, and it was required that the incidence of infection, as determined by the last test prior to the commencement of hatching, must be less than two per cent.

Hold On To Your Egg Profits, J A. Hoy

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

IN recent years, much sound advice has been made available to poultry farmers to assist them in developing their properties and operating them on profitable lines.

Much of this advice has been utilised to good advantage, but there are still many properties on which the profits are being reduced by feed wastage, damage by rats and mice, lack of sufficient attention to egg quality, unnecessarily high labour costs and failure to keep farm records.

Nebraska Bird Review (January 1960) 28(1), Whole Issue

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"Twin nests" of House Wren, picture ... 2

Trees and Shrubs of Value as a Food Source to Migratory and Non-Migratory Bird Life in the Sandhill Region of Central Nebraska ... 3

Summer Birds of Camp Opal Springs, 1958-1959 ... 5

Some Observations of Bird Behaviorisms in and Near Traps and Nets ... 7

Nesting Study of Long-Eared Owls in Box Butte County ... 10

General Notes ... 11

Excerpts from Letters ... 13

Nebraska Bird Review (October 1959) 27(4), Whole Issue.

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Thirty-Fifth Annual Cooperative Spring Migration and Occurrence Report ............................................................................ 50

Fall Records .............................................................................................. 67

Birding in Kearney "On The Run" .................................................... 69

General Notes ............................................................................................ 73

Index to Volume XXVII........................................................................ 74

Nebraska Bird Review (July 1959) 27(3), Whole Issue

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Dr. R. Allyn Moser .................................................................................. 34

Dr. R. Allyn Moser's Contribution to Ornithology ........................ 35

1958 Nesting Report ................................................................................ 36

Meetings and Reports ............................................................................ 38

General Notes ............................................................................................ 39

Some Early Records of the Wild Turkey in Nebraska .................... 42

The Distribution of the Western Red-bellied Woodpecker in the Missouri River Valley ........................................................ 43

Excerpts from Letters ............................................................................ 44

Artificial Pothole And Level Ditch Development As A Means Of Increasing Waterfowl Production, Charles H. Lacy

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The glaciated prairie pothole country of the Midwest forms a vital segment of the most important waterfowl breeding habitat in North America. Here are hatched three-quarters of all the ducks raised in the United States. During a recent seven-year period the three-state area of Minnesota and the Dakotas produced an average of 4 to 5 million ducks annually (Janzon, 1947). This wetland region which once comprised 115,000 square miles in five states had shrunk to about 56,000 square miles by 1956 (Lynch, 1956). To maintain the present rate of waterfowl production in the face of continued destruction of habitat through …

Behavior Of The Red-Footed Booby (Sulasula) In British Honduras, Jared Verner

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

During three months of the breeding season in a colony of 3500 Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula) on 45½-acre Half Moon Caye, fifty miles east of Belize, British Honduras, that species’ little-known breeding activities were investigated. Feeding flights of boobies began leaving the caye before daylight and returned in the evening until after dark. Wind direction and velocity notably affected the mode of the birds’ departure but little affected their direction. Average flight-unit size was 2.41 birds. Contrary to published accounts, the boobies were able to take flight from the ground.

Nebraska Bird Review (April 1959) 27(2), Whole Issue

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Nesting of the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher in Gage County ............................................................ 19

Third Mid-Winter Meeting ...................................... 20

A Monthly Record of Birds Occurring at Bladen, Webster County, 1957 and 1958 ..................... 21

Articles of Incorporation .......................................... 24

1959 Treasurer's Report ..................................................... 26

General Notes ..................................................... 28

Excerpts from Letters .......... ................................ ..... 32

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (January 1959) 27(1)

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Population Dynamics of Diurnal Birds of Prey in the Panhandle of Nebraska ...................2

Notes on Summer Birds of Western Nebraska ...................6

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (October 1958) 26(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

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Thirty-Fourth Annual Cooperative Spring
Migration and Occurrence Report....................50

General Notes....................68

Excerpts from Letters ....................70

Second Annual Fall Meeting....................72

George E. Condra ....................72

Index ....................73

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (July 1958) 26(3)

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Some Observations of the Nesting Habits of the Eastern Phoebe ......................34

Twenty-five Year Summary of Bird Migration in Nebraska ......................38

Meetings and Reports...................... 45

Rollie A. Bunney, 1897-1958 ......................46

Lillian Steele Loveland ......................47

Excerpts From Letters ......................48

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (Apr 1958) 26(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

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Yellow Warblers at the Nest ....................18

1957 Nesting Report ....................20

A Study of Bird Habitats in Alliance City Park.................... 22

General Notes ....................26

Excerpts From Letters ....................29

Treasurer's Report for the Year 1957 ....................30

Behavior Notes.................... 31

Second Annual Winter Convention ....................32

Experiment In Raising Of Prairie Chicken, Harold Milton Malicky

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

Describes an experiment to try to hatch 16 prairie chicken eggs. Harold "Bus" Milton Malicky, Burwell, Nebraska, May 1958.

Experiment In Raising Of Sharp-Tailed Grouse, Harold Milton Malicky

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

Describes the attempt to hatch 6 sharp-tailed grouse eggs. Harold Milton "Bus" Malicky, Burwell, Nebraska, July 1958.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (Jan 1958) 26(1)

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Man Changes the Pattern ......................2

Are We Careless with our Bird Identifications? ......................6

General Notes...................... 9

Excerpts From Letters ......................13

Fall Field Day, October 13, 1957 ......................15

Mrs. Hallie Jennings Allen...................... 16

George Oscar Smith ......................16

Mrs. Myrtle Wilson Blinco ......................16

Arthur Sperry Pearse ......................16

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (Oct 1957) 25(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

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A Letter From Your Editor.................... 50

Thirty-Third Annual Cooperative Spring Migration and Occurrence Report.................... 51

Index to Volume XXV ....................73