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Reproductive maturation and breeding of woodcock in North Carolina
Breeding woodcock (PhiJohela minor) were studied in North Carolina during the winters and springs of 1974-75 and 1975-76.. Measurements of testes and ovaries from 19 male and 30 female woodcock suggest that gonadal recrudescence in many woodcock occurs on the wintering grounds. In males, testicular recrudescence occurred as early as December and was accompanied by territory selection and courtship
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R.T. Stamps, P.D. Doerr
Reproductive success of Potomac River ospreys, 1971
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Stanley N. Wiemeyer
Research needs on effects of environmental chemicals on wildlife populations
No abstract available.
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L. F. Stickel
Research, management, and status of the osprey in North America
Osprey populations were studied throughout North America during the last decade as a result of dramatic declines reported along the North Atlantic Coast in the1950s and early 1960s. Researchers used banding, localized studies, aerial surveys, and pesticide analyses to identify factors influencing regional populations. Declining populations showed extremely poor production, contamination by envir
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C. J. Henny
Scent-marking in lone wolves and newly-formed pairs
No abstract available.
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R. Rothman, L. D. Mech
Suspended particle transport and circulation in San Francisco Bay - an overview
Differences in the relative magnitude and timing of wind stress and river inflow in the northern and southern reaches of San Francisco Bay create different sedimentary conditions. The northern reach is a partially to well mixed estuary receiving most of the total annual fresh-water input (840 m3 sec−1) and suspended sediment input (4 × 106metric tons) into the bay; more than 80% of the sediment is
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T. J. Conomos, D.H. Peterson
The current status of woodcock and woodcock surveys in the United States
A comparison of American woodcock (Philohela minor) wing collection survey data for 1975-76 and 1976-77 showed that there was little change in the indices to breeding success and hunter success between years in the Atlantic and Central regions. The 1977 breeding population index was up 15.2 percent from 1976 in the Central region and static in the Atlantic region. There is a long-term decline in t
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J. Tautin
The study of chemical communication in free-ranging mammals
No abstract available.
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L. D. Mech, R.P. Peters
Woodcock utilization of commercial timberlands in the northeast
This paper reports the results of studies in Maine (1975-77) and New Brunswick (1974) on the utilization of commercial timber areas by woodcock (Philohela minor). Openings created by logging operations were utilized for singing grounds and nocturnal roosting habitat. Singing male densities of 3.4 birds/1oo ha on were found on New Brunswick elearcuts, 0.24 birds/IOO ha on northern Maine elearcuts
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C.P. Nicholson, S. Homer, R.B. Owen, T.G. Dilworth
The four Jurassic belts of northern California and their significance to the geology of the southern California borderland
No abstract available.
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D. L. Jones, M. Clark Blake, C. Rangin