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Distribution and abundance of nesting ospreys in the United States

Nesting Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) in the contiguous United States now number about 8,000 pairs. Five regional populations exist (in order of abundance): Atlantic Coast, Florida and Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest, Western Interior, and Great Lakes. Pesticides severely impacted the populations in the northern portion of the Atlantic Coast (Boston to Cape May) and the Great Lakes, but both are now r
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C. J. Henny

Status of the red-cockaded woodpecker on Federal lands in the South

No abstract available.
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M.R. Lennartz, P.H. Geissler, R.F. Harlow, R.C. Long, K.M. Chitwood, J.A. Jackson

Statistical problems arising from surveys of rare and endangered forest birds

No abstract available.
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F.L. Ramsey, J. M. Scott, R.J. Clark

Monitoring bird population trends in North America

Se ofrece un nuevo metodo para computar las oscilaciones demograficas de las aves a lo largo de los anos. Con los datos suministrados por el proyecto 'Aves nidificantes en Norteamerica' , se indican en la Tabla 1 las pautas de cambio numerico de una serie seleccionada de aves holarticas.
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C.S. Robbins, D. Bystrak, P.H. Geissler

Population regulation in wolves

No abstract available.
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J.M. Packard, L. D. Mech

Distribution and migration of seaside sparrows

The majority of the nine presently recognized races of the Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima) are so similar to neighboring races that individual birds outside their known breeding range cannot be subspecifically identified with certainty. The northern race, A. m. maritima, is partially migratory, with most individuals departing in autumn from Chesapeake Bay and from all the coastal marshes tha
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C.S. Robbins

Circulating corticosteroid and leucocyte dynamics in channel catfish during net confinement

No abstract available at this time.
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J.R. Tomasso, B.A. Simco, K. B. Davis