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The eighty-fifth Christmas bird count. 466. Southern Dorchester County, MD
No abstract available.
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C.S. Robbins
The eighty-fifth Christmas bird count. 459. Ocean City, MD
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins
The austral peregrine falcon: Color variation, productivity, and pesticides
The austral peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus cassini) was studied in the Andean foot- hills and across the Patagonian steppe from November to December 1981. The birds under study (18 pairs) were reproducing at or near normal (pre-DDT) levels for other races. Pesticide residues, while elevated, were well below the values associated with reproductive failure in other populations. With one exceptio
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D. H. Ellis
[Book review] The birds of San Diego County
San Diego County, California is larger in area than 2 of the 50 states (combined), its geographic (and thus biological) diversity ranges from the seacoast across mountains of nearly 2,000 m elevation to extreme desert, it is the southwesternmost county of the contiguous U.S., and it is inhabited by dedicated birders whose observations have boosted the county list to more than 450 species. "The Bir
Authors
R.C. Banks
Contamination from battery salvage operations on the Chipola River, Florida
No abstract available.
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P. V. Winger, D.P. Schultz, W.W. Johnson
Organochlorine residues in fish from the Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge
No abstract available.
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P. V. Winger, D.P. Schultz, W.W. Johnson
[Book review] Aquatic Toxicology, Jerome O. Nriagu, editor. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York. 1983
No abstract available.
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R. Eisler
Shiny cowbird parasitism in two avian communities in Puerto Rico
The shiny cowbird (M. bonariensis), a brood parasite, has recently expanded its range from South America to Puerto Rico via the Lesser Antilles. This species is a host generalist and, on reaching Puerto Rico, encounteed avian species with no history of social parasitism. In mangrove habitat study areas, 42% of the resident non-raptorial land bird species were parasitized. Some species were heavily
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J. W. Wiley
[Book review] Seabirds of Eastern North Pacific and Arctic Waters, Delphine Haley, editor
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins
[Book review] Seabirds: An Identification Guide, by Peter Harrison
No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins