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Nebraska Bird Review (September 1998) 66(3), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

A Half Century of Winter Bird Surveys in Lincoln and Scottsbluff ... 74

Summer Field Report, June to July, 1998, Introduction ... 84

Species Accounts ... 86

Book Review: Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton ... 100

1998 Midwinter Eagle Survey and Ten-Year Summary Tables ... 101

Central Nebraska Public Power Facilities Eagle Count ... 108

Nebraska Bird Count for 1997 Addendum ... 110

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Review Of A Guide To The Nests, Eggs, And Nestlings Of North American Birds, Paul A. Johnsgard

Papers in Ornithology

In 1978, during a visit to England, I purchased a copy of the first edition of this book, then called a field guide. It was written by Colin Harrison, published by Collins, and produced in standard field guide size. It never was effectively distributed in North America, which was unfortunate, because it was far better than the guide to bird nests by Hal Harrison in the well-known Peterson field guide series. Not only did it illustrate the eggs of about 550 species, in color and life size, but it also offered nestling paintings of nearly 150 species, plus numerous line …

Cooperative Whooping Crane Tracking Project (February 1998-May 1998)

Nebraska Bird Review

Whooping crane spring and fall migrations are monitored each year. Sighting reports are forwarded to the Ecological Services Field Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service, Grand Island, Nebraska, by private organizations, State and Federal conservation agencies, and the Canadian Wildlife Service. Cooperation throughout the whooping crane flyway continues to be excellent. Special thanks go out to each participant.

Between 1977 and 1988, 132 juvenile whooping cranes were color marked on the breeding grounds; of these 40 were accounted for during the winter of 1997–98. One color-marked crane was observed during the spring migration. All sightings of color-marked whooping …

Spring Field Report, March To May 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen

Nebraska Bird Review

In most respects, this was a routine spring. While a few rarities and several interesting reports appeared, perhaps most interesting was the arrival of the electronic age. Foremost was the start-up of "NEBIRDS," the Nebraska Birding Listserver set up and operated by Robert Price at Kearney. This resource should greatly enhance communication and collective learning amongst birders in the state. We have culled several reports from observations submitted to NEBIRDS, and several reporters now contact us by email. We urge observers to forward their email addresses; if we have questions on their reports, communication would be easy! Submit reports and …

Nebraska Bird Review (June 1998) 66(2), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Spring Field Report, March to May, 1998, Introduction … 30

Species Accounts … 32

Cooperative Whooping Crane Tracking Project Report … 55

Confirmed Whooping Crane Sightings in the USA … 58

NOU Fall Field Days Count, 1997; May NAMC Count, 1998 … 60

Table for NOU Fall Count and NAMC Count … 61

In Memorium: Charles G. Sibley … 68

Three Poems by Twyla Hansen … 70

Table Of Contents And Masthead [June 1998]

Nebraska Bird Review

The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $14.00 in the United States; $18.00 for all foreign countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $4.00 each, postpaid, in the United States, and $5.00 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Mary Lou Prichard, NOU Librarian, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514.

Memberships in NOU (on a calendar year basis only): Active, $15.00; Sustaining, $25.00; Student, …

In Memorium: Charles G. Sibley, Paul A. Johnsgard

Papers in Ornithology

Dr. Charles Sibley, who passed away in April 1998, is recalled and appreciated by a former student, lab assistant, co-worker, and colleague, who first encountered him at Cornell University in 1955, beginning a 43-year working relationship.

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Wpa News 56 (1998), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (May 1998), number 56

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Changes In The Breeding Bird Community Of Subtropical Evergreen Forest In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of Texas, 1970s-1990s, Timothy Brush, Alberto Cantu

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

Breeding-bird censuses conducted in 1994-1996 at the Santa Ana National Wildlife, southern Texas were compared to those done on the same site in 1973-1978. The study site was described as subtropical evergreen forest in the 1970s, but is now thorn-forest with remnant evergreen forest. Canopy cover was incomplete and lower and trees were smaller and more densely packed in 1994-1996 than in 1973-1978. Seven bird species typical of thorn-forest and thorn-scrub, which were not present in 1973-1978, made up 20% of the breeding bird community in 1994-1996. Species tolerant of thorn-forest and thorn-scrub made up 76.0% of the breeding bird …

Addendum To The G. M. Sutton Bibliography, Paul A. Johnsgard

Nebraska Bird Review

Since the publication of “The George Miksch Sutton Bibliography” (Nebraska Bird Review 65(2): 46-58), additional titles [eight] have come to light. Other additional titles [four] related to Sutton may be of additional interest.

Nebraska’S First Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris Ferruginea), Joel G. Jorgensen, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

During a birding trip on 19 July 1997, we stopped at Funk WPA, Phelps County. While viewing from the north-south road that runs through the marsh at the east end of the marsh, we caught glimpses of a large group of shorebirds behind cattails in an area on the south side of the main marsh and about a third of a mile west of the road. We eventually decided to walk out and get a closer look at the shorebirds. Once we were close enough we were able to see that there were approximately 250 shorebirds. We began sifting through …

Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union, Inc., Treasurer’S Annual Report, 31 December 1997, Elizabeth Grenon

Nebraska Bird Review

1/1/97 balance on cash basis per bank account: Cash $1,519.59 Investments $15,851.40 Total $17,370.99

Total Receipts: Cash $10,790.91 Investments $900.04 Total $11,690.95

Total Disbursements: Cash $7,546.26 Investments $0 Total $7,546.24

Balance 12/31/97: Cash $4,764.26 Investments $16,751.44 Total $21,515.70

Table Of Contents And Masthead [March 1998]

Nebraska Bird Review

The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates are (on a calendar-year basis only): $12.50 in the United States; $15.00 in Canada and Mexico; and $17.50 for all other countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $4.00 each;postpaid, in the United States, and $5.00 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Mary H. Prichard, NOU Librarian, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514.

Memberships in NOU (on a calendar year basis …

Bald Eagle Nest Monitoring - Nebraska, 1997 Summary Report, John J. Dinan

Nebraska Bird Review

In 1997, 38 Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) nests in 22 counties were surveyed for breeding activity. Eagles occupied territories at 10 of these sites. These same 10 territories were occupied in 1996. Two separate, mid-July sightings of Bald Eagles along the Niobrara River, one of an adult and three juveniles in Knox County and one of an adult and a juvenile in Holt County, suggests the presence of additional nesting territories. All nest attempts in 1997 were successful, producing a total of 16 fledged young. The Lake Alice nest on the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge fell during …

Nebraska Bird Review (March 1998) 66(1), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

NOU Treasurer's Annual Report ... 2

Nebraska's First Curlew Sandpiper ... 3

Addendum to G. M. Sutton Bibliography ... 3

Mystery Duck at Sinninger Waterfowl Production Area ... 4

Bald Eagle Nest Monitoring - Nebraska, 1997 ... 5

Winter Field Report, Dec 1997-Feb 1998 ... 6

Nebraska Christmas Bird Count for 1997 ... 18

Note from the New Editors ... 27

A Note From The New Editors, Bill Clemente, Tom Klubertanz

Nebraska Bird Review

Special thanks go to Dr. Rosiland Morris for her many years of service to the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, especially for her exceptional editorship of The Nebraska Bird Review. I can only hope that the journal will continue to reflect Rosiland's attention to detail and her devotion to excellence.

As the Newsletter noted, I am an Associate Professor of English at Peru State College and an enthusiastic birder here in Nebraska—and during the summer in Ripon, Wisconsin, where my family lives; my wife is an Associate Professor of French at Ripon College. When Betty Allen notified me that NOU Board …

Nebraska Christmas Bird Count For 1997 Statewide Summary

Nebraska Bird Review

The official count period for the 98th National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count was from December 19, 1997, to January 4, 1998. Data were reported from ten locations throughout Nebraska (Fig. 1). Table 1 gives numeric data from the bird counts, with locations listed in alphabetical order. Unusual counts that were noted by the participants are in bold print. For counts of separate forms or subspecies, brackets are used to indicate that the entry is a part of the overall count given for the species. Counts also are given for identifications above the species level, such as "hawk sp." These …

Winter Field Report, Dec 1997 To Feb 1998, W. Ross Silcock, Joel G. Jorgensen

Nebraska Bird Review

As one observer (DH) noted, this was a "weird" winter. January and February were more like March, producing winter reports of species with few such previous reports; the species involved come from all parts of the taxonomic list, from loons to icterids. Almost certainly, a first (in recorded history) was a slam of all the Nebraska grebe species in January, even Red-necked and Clark's! Also in January, a Pacific Loon was reported. As shown in the species' accounts below, the list of rare midwinter species is long.

Another significant, related finding involved early-arriving spring migrants, also a long list. In …

Mystery Duck At Sinninger Waterfowl Production Area, York County, Joel G. Jorgensen

Nebraska Bird Review

On the evening of 8 May 1997, I was scanning the shorebirds and ducks at the cattleyard basin of Sinninger WPA, York County. Most of the 300 or so puddle ducks were Bluewinged Teals (Anas discors), but also present were Green-winged Teal (A. crecca), American Wigeon (A. americana), Gadwall (A. strepera), Northern Shoveler (A. clypeata), and a Cinnamon Teal (A. cyanoptera). I eventually noticed a male duck in breeding plumage that superficially resembled a Baikal Teal (A. formosa). All descriptive discussion that follows is of male …

Addendum To The G. M. Sutton Bibliography, Paul A. Johnsgard

Paul Johnsgard Collection

Since the publication of "The George Miksch Sutton Bibliography" (Nebraska Bird
Review 65(2): 46-58), the following additional titles have come to light:
Sutton, G. M. 1921. "Night Voices." Bird Lore 21:108-110.
__ 1933. "Fifty years of progress in American bird art." pp 181-197 in: Fifty Years'
Progress of American Ornithology: 1883-1933. American Ornithologists Union, Lancaster, PA.
__ 1962. Is bird art art? Living Bird 1 :73-78.
__ 1977. A wood duck portrait. Living Bird 16:5-6.
__ 1978. Three pine grosbeaks. Living Bird 17:5-6.
__ 1980. A yellow rail sketch. Living Bird 18:5-6.
__ 1981. A boreal owl portrait. Living …

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 74, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Wpa News 55 (1998), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1998), number 55

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Megapode Newsletter 12(3)-16(1) (1998-2002), World Pheasant Association, Birdlife International, Ssc Megapode Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Volume 12, Number 3 (December 1998)

Editors: Rene W. R. J. Dekker, Darryl N. Jones, and Gary J. Wiles

Project description: Ontogeny of behaviour in the Australian brush-turkey Alectura lathami, Ann Göth

Notes on the nesting grounds of the Moluccan megapode Eulipoa wallacei at Amahai and desa Iha Baru (Elpaputih), South Seram, Indonesia, C. J. Heij

Maleo survey and conservation project, Gillian C. Baker

Nesting biology of the Vanuatu megapode Megapodius layardi on Ambrym, Vanuatu, Tanya Foster

Volume 13, Number 1 (July 1999)

Editors: Rene W. R. J. Dekker, Darryl N. Jones, and Gary J. Wiles

SHOCing news . …

Boletín De El Iucn/Birdlife/Wpa Grupo De Especialistas En Crácidos 6-11 (1998-2000), Iucn, Birdlife International, Wpa Cracid Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Volume 6 (March 1998)

Editors: Daniel M. Brooks (English), Alfredo J. Begazo (Spanish), Fábio Olmos (Portuguese)

¡Noticias de Armonia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia! Notícias de Armonia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, News from Armonia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia!

O raro jacu-de barriga-castanha (Penelope ochrogaster) no Pantanal de Pantanal, Poconé, Matto Grosso, Brazil, Fábio Olmos

The chestnut-bellied guan (Penelope ochrogaster) in the northern Pantanal of Poconé, Matto Grosso, Brazil, Fábio Olmos

Estado de la subespecie guacharaca de utila (Ortalis vetula deschauenseei) en la Isla Utila, Gilles Seutin

Status of the Utila Island subspecies of the plain chachalaca (Ortalis vetula deschauenssei …

Breeding Ecology And Behavior Of The Hawaiian Hawk, Curtis R. Griffin, Peter W. C. Paton, Thomas S. Baskett

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

We studied the ecology of the endangered Hawaiian Hawk (Buteo solitarius) on the island of Hawaii for three breeding seasons. Their breeding strategy is a prime example of a K-selected species characteristic of many birds in tropical environments: clutch size was one and brood-rearing was among the longest reported for any diurnal raptor. Twenty-eight nests were found in a variety of native and exotic habitats. Incubation lasted 38 days, nestlings fledged after 59-63 days, and parents cared for fledglings for an average of 30.2 weeks, which was 2.5 to 10 times longer than similar-size temperate zone raptors. Males …

Tragopan: Newsletter Of The Wpa/Species Survival Commission/Birdlife Pheasant Specialist Group 8-13/14 (1998-2001), World Pheasant Association, Iucn Species Survival Commission, Birdlife International Pheasant Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Issue 8 (March 1998)

Editorial

From the Chairman

Project news

International Symposium

Vietnamese Seminar

Edwards"s pheasant workshop

Studies on Elliot's pheasant

Neating of Blyth 's tragopan

Annamese silver pheasant

Siamese firebacks in Vietnam

Peoples' participation in Vietnam

Funding agencies

PSO core committee

Issue 9 (August 1998)

Editorial

From the Chairman

Project news

lnternational Galliformes Symposium

The New Pheasant Action Plan

Brown eared pheasant distribution

Imperial pheasant - a hybrid?

Probable new pheasant taxon

Dolan's eared pheasant

Pheasunts in Great Himalayan National Park

Reeves's pheasant nature reserve

Pipar pheasant survey, Nepal

Obituaries

Issue 10 (March 1999)

Editorial

From the Chairman

Project …

The Birds And Habitat Of Kings Park, Bradley W. Cox

Theses : Honours

Kings Park is a large urban park in the centre of Perth with extensive areas of semi-natural bushland. The park is an important refuge for birds in the metropolitan area but is losing species through habitat disturbance. Understanding the way in which birds are related to their habitat helps to understand the effect of habitat disturbance on the bird community. The aim of this project was to generate guidelines which will aid in the management and conservation of birds in the park, through an understanding of the relationship of the birds to their habitat. The avifauna and various habitat factors …

Locational Factors Determining The Distribution Of Nesting Sites For A Colony Of Wedge-Tailed Shearwaters, Puffinus Pacificus, On West Wallabi Island, Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, Julie Davis

Theses : Honours

West Wallabi Island in the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, provides significant breeding habitat for the largest colony of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, Puffinus pacificus, in the Eastern Indian Ocean. The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) surveyed the Island in 1992 and estimated the population to be in excess of 1,117,000 pairs of breeding birds. Recent proposals to open the Abrolhos area to a larger number of visitors has identified the need for more detailed investigations into the relationship of birds and habitat. An understanding of this relationship provides a means of determining the ways in which populations will respond to …