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Dallas For The Birds, So Think The Birds, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Birds Provide Assist To Man During Time Insects Abound, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Bird Watching Popular At East Texas Lake O' Pines, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Song Of Celebrity Warbler Caught By Devout Observers, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Mulberry Status Symbol For Bird Watchers, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Watchers Observe 772 Migrating White Pelicans, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 41, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

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Society Spots 150 Kinds Of Birds, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Bird Songs And Movements Give Animation To Spring Scenery, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Easter Eggs Linked With Ancient History, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Flycater Flies Coop Birds Dogged By Dogged Watchers, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Hybridization In Bird Life Exception, Not Usual Rule, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Bird Observers In Situation Similar To Thoreau's, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Bird Watchers Have Own Weather Ideas, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Odd Nesting, Singing Wren Trademarks, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Appetite, Not Spring, Draws Robins, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Species Provides Mystery Singing Of Junco Foretells Spring, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Cardinal Is Ideal Bird For Valentines, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 41, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

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Bird Houses Erected Now Will Blend Into Springtime, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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It's Not Too Late To Save Attwater's Prairie Chicken In Texas, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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December Food Habits Of The Mallard (Anas Platyrhynchos Linn.) In The Grand Prairie Of Arkansas, Bill Forsyth

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Rail (Bird) Has New Fame After S-T Story, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Nebraska Bird Review (January 1965) 33(1), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Bird Records from Northern Nebraska during the Breeding Season...................2

Two Species of Ibis Seen in Nebraska in May, 1964 ...................6

Nesting Report, 1964 ...................9

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Nesting in Clay County................... 14

Song Sparrow Nesting at Plattsmouth ...................14

A Changed Habitat ...................15

General Notes................... 18

Excerpts from Letters ...................19

Fall Field Day ...................20

Handbook Of Waterfowl Behavior: Frontmatter And Introduction, Paul A. Johnsgard

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior by Paul A. Johnsgard

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Illustrations
Background and Objectives of This Study
Value and Limitations of Behavior as a Taxonomic Tool
Biological Characteristics of the Family Anatidae

Handbook Of Waterfowl Behavior: Tribe Anseranatini (Magpie Goose), Paul A. Johnsgard

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior by Paul A. Johnsgard

The first subfamily and tribe of the Anatidae consists of the single genus and species Anseranas semipalmata, or magpie goose. This species deviates in almost every respect from the rest of the Anatidae, and anatomical evidence indicates that it has some affinities with the South American family of screamers, the Anhimidae (Delacour, 1954; Woolfenden, 1961). The screamers are a group of semiterrestrial birds which in turn have some of the characteristics of gallinaceous birds. It appears that the screamers and the magpie goose represent major stages in the evolution of the typical waterfowl from a gallinaceous ancestor. Besides the …

Handbook Of Waterfowl Behavior, Paul A. Johnsgard

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior by Paul A. Johnsgard

The present study was undertaken to test and evaluate the various taxonomic arrangements of the family, to discover some of the trends of behavioral evolution, and to provide a basis for future workers to use in naming, describing, and evaluating the behavioral patterns observed in waterfowl.

The major sexual behavior patterns of the species of Anatidae are reviewed and summarized, for the purpose of clarifying evolutionary relationships in the family, tracing the evolution of behavior patterns through various taxa, and evaluating the importance of certain behavior patterns as potential isolating mechanisms.

Species treated include:
Magpie Goose, Fulvous and Cuban Whistling …

Handbook Of Waterfowl Behavior: Tribe Dendrocygnini (Whistling Ducks), Paul A. Johnsgard

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior by Paul A. Johnsgard

The whistling, or "tree," ducks comprise a group of eight species of world-wide, though primarily tropical, distribution. A single genus, Dendrocygna, is generally accepted, and indeed the species form such a homogeneous group that it is extremely difficult to establish intrageneric differences upon which to judge probable species relationships. In most respects, whistling ducks are very gooselike, differing from geese mainly in their more specialized tracheal structure, their whistling voices, and their distinctive downy plumage patterns. They possess relatively long legs and large feet, and they can dive remarkably well.

Handbook Of Waterfowl Behavior: Tribe Anserini (Swans And True Geese), Paul A. Johnsgard

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior by Paul A. Johnsgard

The swans and true geese of the present tribe include about 21 species which are primarily temperate and arctic in distribution, with most forms occurring in the Northern Hemisphere. They are generally large grazing or dabbling birds, and all are highly social and have strong family bonds. Plumage patterns are the same in both sexes and tend to be relatively simple, with visual signal characteristics generally restricted to the bill, head, and rump. For the most part the species are very vocal, and in the true geese vocalizations probably reach the highest degree of development in the entire family.

Handbook Of Waterfowl Behavior: Tribe Stictonettini (Freckled Duck), Paul A. Johnsgard

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior by Paul A. Johnsgard

I include the Australian freckled duck, as the only member of a proposed tribe Stictonettini, as I originally suggested in 1960 on a tentative basis. Previously the freckled duck had been generally considered an aberrant dabbling duck with several primitive features, such as a reticulated tarsus, simple tracheal structure (illustrated in Johnsgard, 1961c), and absence of metallic plumage coloration or distinct plumage dimorphism. No hybrids have been recorded involving this species, which occurs widely but infrequently over the southern half of Australia.