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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The seventy-sixth Audubon Christmas bird count. 345. Southern Dorchester County, Md
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins
The seventy-sixth Audubon Christmas bird count. 339. Ocean City, MD
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins
Blood values of the canvasback duck by age, sex and season
Blood samples were obtained from canvasback ducklings from Manitoba and Saskatchewan and from immature and adult canvasbacks on the Mississippi River near LaCrosse, Wisconsin and the Chesapeake Bay. These samples were used to determine baseline data on red cell counts, hematocrit, total protein, glucose, cholesterol, hemoglobin and distribution of plasma proteins. Calculations were also made to d
Authors
R. M. Kocan, S.M. Pitts
Report of the American Ornithologists' Union Committee on Conservation 1975-76
This Committee's report for 1974-75 (Marshall et al. 1975, Auk 92 (4, Suppl.): lB-16B) summarized activities affecting bird conservation in the United States and Canada since 1973, including new legislation, international activities, avian conflicts with industrial and population growth, and habitat preservation. It also summarized the status of many of the endangered birds of North America, and a
Authors
W.B. King, G.V. Byrd, J.J. Hickey, C.B. Kepler, W. Post, H.A. Raffaele, P. F. Springer, H.F. Snyder, C.M. White, J.N. Wiley
[Book review] A Field Guide to Mexican Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson and Edward L. Chalif
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins
[Book review] American sportsmen and the origins of conservation
The relationship of this book to ornithology is so indirect that the work barely merits a review on these pages. In a rather subtle way, however, the book may have a considerable effect on at least one aspect of ornithology, that involving scientific collecting. In essence, the volume is an entry in the hunting versus antihunting controversy, by a historian who is a sportsman. A challenge to antih
Authors
Richard C. Banks
[Book review] The Seabirds of Britain and Ireland, by Stanley Cramp, W.R.P. Bourne, and David Saunders
No abstract available.
Authors
C.B. Kepler
[Book review] Organochlorine Insecticides: Persistent Organic Pollutants, edited by F. Moriarty
No abstract available.
Authors
J. L. Ludke
How National Capital parks contract Dutch Elm Disease
No abstract available.
Authors
J.L. Sherald, R.S. Hammerschlag