Publications
This list of publications includes peer-review journal articles, official USGS publications series, reports and more authored by scientists in the Ecosystems Mission Area. A database of all USGS publications, with advanced search features, can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Red-winged blackbirds searching beneath pine bark for insects in winter
Most observers usually associate the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) with open country such as marshes or upland fields and their wooded or brushy borders. On the wintering grounds in the coniferous belt of the southeastern United States, however, Red-wings spend some of their time feeding in pine forests. In the course of a day's feeding they move back and forth between pine woods and
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B. Meanley
Rapid dosing of food pellets in toxicological studies with birds
No abstract available.
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H.P. Pan, J.W. Caslick
Chlordiazepoxide and pentobarbital as tranquilizers for cowbirds and Coturnix quail
No abstract available.
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J.M. Peek
A method of shipping live larvae of Simulium vittatum long distances (Diptera: Simuliidae)
During studies on the biology and ecology of black flies (Simuliidae) at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Seney, Michigan, and at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland, larvae of 3 species of black fly (Simulium vittatum Zetterstedt, S. aureum Fries, and S. decorum Walker) were collected and transported for distances of up to 50 miles in nonagitated jars of water. In each case
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I.B. Tarshis
The occurrence of Trichomonas gallinae in white-winged doves in Arizona
No abstract available.
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E.W. Toepfer, L. N. Locke, L. H. Blankenship