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The seventy-sixth Audubon Christmas bird count. 365. Little Creek, Va
No abstract available.
Authors
P. Sykes
The seventy-sixth Audubon Christmas bird count. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
No abstract available.
Authors
P.W. Sykes
Organochlorine residues in three bat species from four localities in Maryland and West Virginia, 1973
In 1973, 119 bats of three species were collected from four localities in Maryland and West Virginia. The collection included 43 big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), 43 little brown brown bats (Myotis lucifugus), and 33 eastern pipistrelles (Pipistrellus subflavus). The bats were collected from Round Top Mountain, Washington Co., Md.; Trout Cave, Pendleton Co., W. Va.; Montpelier Barn, Prince George
Authors
D. R. Clark, R. M. Prouty
The seventy-sixth Audubon Christmas bird count. Delaware, Maryland, D.C., Virginia
No abstract available.
Authors
D. Bystrak
The seventy-sixth Audubon Christmas bird count. 350. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Va
No abstract available.
Authors
P. Sykes
Comments on recent canvasback habitat trends and threats on Chesapeake Bay
During the last 22 years, the North American winter population of canvasbacks has fluctuated from 481,000 in 1955 to 179,000 in 1972. The Chesapeake Bay population has averaged 33 percent of the North American population and 64 percent of the Atlantic Flyway population. In Maryland, significant annual fluctuations have been recorded between the eastern and western shore of Chesapeake Bay. In 19
Authors
M. C. Perry
Distribution and abundance of aquatic vegetation in the upper Chesapeake Bay, 1971-1974
No abstract available.
Authors
J.A. Kerwin, R. E. Munro, W.W.A. Peterson
Effects of environmental pollutants on Connecticut and Maryland ospreys
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) eggs were exchanged between Connecticut and Maryland osprey nests in 1968 and 1969 to test the hypothesis that the decline in reproductive success of Connecticut ospreys was caused by something within the external environment of the eggs. Incubation of 30 Connecticut osprey eggs by Maryland ospreys did not improve the hatching rate. Forty-five Maryland osprey eggs incu
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Stanley N. Wiemeyer, P.R. Spitzer, W.C. Krantz, T. G. Lamont, E. Cromartie
[Book review] Birds and Marshes of the Chesapeake Bay Country, by B. Meanley
No abstract available.
Authors
M. C. Perry
Osprey productivity during the mid-fifties in a portion of Chesapeake Bay
No abstract available.
Authors
C. J. Henny, Vernon D. Stotts
The seventy-fifth Audubon Christmas bird count. Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia
No abstract available.
Authors
D. Bystrak