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Nesting of hooded mergansers of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland
The first known record of Hooded Mergansers (Lophodytes cucullatus) nesting on the coastal plain of Maryland was in 1961, when Mr. Francis Uhler (pers. comm) found two clutches in Wood Duck nest boxes in impoundments at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, about five miles southeast of Laurel, Maryland. R.E. Stewart and C.S. Robbins (“Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia,” N. Amer. Fau
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F. B. McGilvrey
Second nestings of the wood ducks
This is a description of the renesting of two Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa) after hatching broods. I can find but two previous records of such behavior. Barnes (Auk, 65: 449, 1948) reported an incident of a hand-reared bird nesting in the wild in Indiana. This female was unable to get her brood out of the nest box, and subsequently hatched a second brood. Hester (SE Wildlife Conf., 1962; 8 pp., mimeo.)
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F. B. McGilvrey
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