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Description: |
ix, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm. |
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General Note: |
"North American Wading Bird Conference was held at Charleston, South Carolina, on 14-17 October 1976"--Preface. |
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Conference cosponsored by National Audubon Society and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Behavior and evolution of wading birds. Introductory remarks / Douglas W. Mock. A review of the classification of the Ciconiiformes / Kenneth C. Parkes. The comparative approach to wading bird behavior / Douglas W. Mock. Heron nest-site selection and its ecological effects / Jochen H. Wiese. Display characteristics and frequency of breeding by subadult little blue herons / James A. Rodgers Jr. Time-lapse photography and computer analysis of behavior of nesting white-faced ibises / David E. Capen. The pattern and mechanism of nesting in mixed-species heronries / Joanna Burger -- Conservation and management of wading birds. Introductory remarks / Alexander Sprunt IV. Environmental pollutants and eggshell thinning in the black-crowned night heron / Harry M. Ohlendorf, Erwin E. Klaas and T. Earl Kaiser. Conservation and management problems of wading birds and their habitats : a global overview / Kai Curry-Lindahl. Protection and management of wading birds / John M. Anderson. The use of dredge islands by wading birds / James F. Parnell and Robert F. Soots Jr. Eggshell measurements and organochlorine residues in little blue herons / Mary L. Biskup, Robert W. Risebrough and Julian L. Dusi. Great blue heron nesting success in two Iowa reservoir ecosystems / Ann D. Konermann, Larry D. Wing and John J. Richard. Control of wading bird predation at fish-rearing facilities / Donald F. Mott -- Populations and surveys of wading birds. Introductory remarks / Donald A. McCrimmon Jr. Recent population trends of colonial wading birds on the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains / John C. Ogden. Colonial wading bird survey and census techniques / Kirke A. King. |
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Contents: Dispersal and movements of six North American ciconiiforms / Mitchell A. Byrd. The collection, management, and exchange of information on colonially nesting birds / Donald A. McCrimmon Jr. Breeding distribution, movements, and mortality of snowy egrets in North America / Ronald A. Ryder. Survey methods used for wading bird studies in Alabama / Julian L. Dusi and Rosemary D. Dusi. Aspects of an Oregon estuarine great blue heron population / R.D. Bayer. A method for banding and color-marking large numbers of wading birds / Danny A. Swepston, Carl D. Frentress and Ray C. Telfair II. A wading bird inventory of coastal Louisiana / John W. Portnoy. Distribution and ecology of great blue heron colonies on the Willamette River, Oregon / Scott M. English -- Ecology of wading birds. Introductory remarks / Thomas W. Custer. Feeding ecology of wading birds / James A. Kushlan. Colonial nesting in birds, with special reference to the Ciconiiformes / John R. Krebs. Habitat and the modern range expansion of the cattle egret / W. Roy Siegfried. A modeling study of water, wetlands and wood storks / J.A. Browder. Predatory ecology of the great egret at Humboldt Bay, California / Ronald W. Schlorff. Feeding-site description of three heron species near Beaufort, North Carolina / Thomas W. Custer and Ronald G. Osborn. Feeding ecology of little blue herons at a radionuclide-contaminated reservoir / A.H. Domby and R.W. McFarlane. The diets of herons and egrets in southwestern Lake Erie / Robert D. Hoffman. |