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- The Living Bird (1962-1981)


The Living Bird Nineteenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1981 Main contents: A Boreal Owl Portrait - George Miksch Sutton A Survey of the Tyrant Flycatchers - Melvin A. Traylor, Jr. and John W. Fitzpatrick The Hooded Grebe on Laguna de Los Escarchados: Ecology and Behavior - Robert W. Storer The Downy Young of the Hooded Grebe - Gary L. Nuechterlein and Andres Johnson Relationships and Speciation of the Hawaiian Thrushes - H. Douglas Pratt Biology and Conservation of the Bahama Parrot - Noel F.R. Snyder, Warren B. King, Cameron B. Kepler Notes on the Plumages of the Boat-billed Heron - Robert W. Dickerman, Kenneth C. Parkes, Joseph Bell The Breeding of the Pearl Kite in Trinidad - Richard P .ffrench The Bald Eagle Concentration in Glacier National Park, Montana: Origin, Growth, and Variation in Numbers - B. Riley McClelland, Leonard S. Young, et al Illustrations by: George Miksch Sutton et al.

The Living Bird Eighteenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1979 Main contents: A Yellow Rail Sketch - George Miksch Sutton Foraging and Coexistence of Spruce-Woods Warblers - Douglass H. Morse Beauty and the Beast: Natural History and Art - Robert M. Mengel Comparative Ecology of the Mountain and California Quail in the Carmel Valley, California - Ralph J. Gutiérrez Life History of the Five-Striped Sparrow - G. Scott Mills, James R. Silliman, Kathy D. Groschupf, Steven M. Speich The Evolutionary Biology of Kingfishers (Alcedinidae) - C. Hilary Fry The Contributions of the Amateur to North American Ornithology: A Historical Perspective - Marianne Ainely Ground Barbets of East Africa - Lester L. Short and Jennifer F. M. Horne Swinhoe's Pheasant in Taiwan - Sheldon R. Severinghaus Le Conte's Sparrow: A Rare Study From Life - Robert M. Mengel Illustrations by: George Miksch Sutton, Guy Coheleach, et al.

The Living Bird Seventeenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1978 Main contents: Red Phalaropes Breeding on Bathurst Island - Harold F. Mayfield Begging by Nestling Shiny Cowbirds: Adaptive or Maladaptive - Michael Gochfeld Display and Related Behavior of the Wire-Tailed Manakin - Paul Schwartz and David W. Snow Behavioral Interactions and Niche Separation in Black and Turkey Vultures - Paul A. Stewart Social Behavior of the African Comb Duck - W. Roy Siegfried A Review of the Hornbills: Biology and Radiation - Alan C. Kemp Breeding Ecology of the Clay-Colored Sparrow - Richard W. Knapton The Communal Social System of the Green Woodhoopoe in Kenya - J. David Ligon and Sandra Ligon Organization of a Tropical Nectar Feeding Bird Guild in a Variable Environment - Jean-Luc DesGranges A Nesting Study of the Brown Creeper - Cheyleen M. Davis Illustrations by: George Miksch Sutton et al.

The Living Bird Sixteenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1977 Main contents: A Wood Duck Portrait - George Miksch Sutton Coition, Nesting, and Postfledging Behavior of Williamson's Sapsucker in Colorado - Allen B. Crockett and Paula L. Hansley The Sea Birds of Culebra and its Adjacent Islands, Puerto Rico - Cameron B. Kepler and Angela K. Kepler Breeding Strategies in Birds of Prey - Ian Newton Breeding Ecology of Wilson's Warbler in the High Sierra Nevada, California - Robert M. Stewart, R. Phillip Henderson, Kate Darling With Louis Fuertes in Abyssinia - Alfred M. Bailey Foraging Strategies of Clark's Nutcracker - Diana F. Tomback Reproductive Behavior of the Noisy Miner, a Communally Breeding Honeyeater - Douglas D. Dow Impact of Human Visitations on Avian Nesting Success - Jonathan Bart Comparative Biology of Turquoise-Browed and Blue-Crowned Motmots in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico - Jorge Enrique Orejuela Growth Strategies in Nesting Passerines - Raymond J. O'Connor Illustrations by: Robert M Mengel, James E Coe, Tony Angell, Nancy McGowan, Diane Pierce, Peter Slater, Albert E. Gilbert, Orville O Rice, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ian C Tait, D Platt, R J C Blewitt, William C Dilger, George Miksch Sutton, Chuck Ripper.

The Living Bird Fifteenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1976 Main contents: A Resource-based Mating System: The Orange-rumped Honeyguide - Edward W. Cronin, Jr. and Paul W. Sherman Observed Acts of Predation on Birds in Northern Lower Michigan - Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. An Ecological and Behavioral Study of the Galapagos Penguin - P. D. Boersma The Origin and Evolution of Hawaiian Honeycreepers (Drepanididae) - Robert J. Raikow The Impact of Migrant Warblers on Resident Passerines in a Subtropical Colombian Woodland - Robert M. Chipley Biology of the Bald Eagle on Amchitka Island, Alaska - Steve K. Sherrod, Clayton M. White, Francis S.L. Williamson Recording Bird Sounds - James L. Gulledge How to Determine the Status of a Woodpecker Nest - Jerome A. Jackson Feeding Behavior in the Paradise Jacamar and the Swallow-wing - Philip J.K. Burton Illustrations by: Tony Angell, William McVa ugh Jr, Philip J K Burton, John P O'Neill, Diane Pierce, H Douglas Pratt, Arthur Singer, Robert Gillmor, Barry Kent MacKay, Ted Lewin, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, James E Coe, Michael J Hopiak.

The Living Bird Fourteenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1975 Main contents: The Social System of the Green Jay in Columbia - Humberto Alvarez Sunbathing in Grebes - Robert Storer, W. Roy Siegfried, John Kinahan Biology of Harris' Hawk in Southern Arizona - William J. Mader Factors Influencing Female Choice in the Lek Mating System of the Ruff - Julia M. Shepard Breeding Biology of Frigatebirds—A Comparative Review - J. Bryan Nelson Territorial Defense of People by Laughing Gulls - Peter R. Jutro The Development of North American Herons II - William McVaugh, Jr. Social Behavior of the Boat-Billed Heron - Douglas W. Mock Courtship Behavior of the Greater Roadrunner - Martha Whitson Hand-Rearing Hawks and Owls—Some Comparisons - Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom Complex Song Repertoire of Long-Billed Marsh Wrens - Jared Verner Illustrations by: George Mikisch Sutton , Don R Eckleberry, Albert E Gilbert, William McVaugh Jr, Diane Pierce, Robert Gillmor, Ted Lewin, Michael J Hopiak, John A Ruthven, James E Coe, peter Goll, John Busby, Lawrence B McQueen, William Zimmerman, Tony Angell.

The Living Bird Thirteenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1974 Main contents: Breeding Biology of Two Cuckoos and Their Hosts in South West Africa - Rolf A.C. Jensen, C.F. Clinning The Plumbeous Heron of the Galapagos - Barbara K. Snow Breeding Biology of Swallow-Tailed Kites in Florida - Noel F.R. Snyder The Red-Billed Toucan in Guyana - Godfrey R. Bourne Bird Diversity and Abundance in Amazon Forest Communities - Thomas E. Lovejoy Acoustic Behavior of the Northern Jacana - Donald A. Jenni, Roger D. Gambs, Burr J. Betts Evolution of Clutch Size and Male "Chauvinism" in the White-Bearded Manakin - Alan Lill The Antarctic Terns of Anvers Island - David F. Parmelee, and Stephen J. Maxson Social Structure and Reproductive Behavior in the Greater Rhea - Donald F. Bruning Patterns in the Life Histories of Storm Petrels on the Farallon Islands - David G. Ainley, Steve Morrell, T. James Lewis Illustrations by: Martin Glen Loates, William C Dilger, John P O'Neill, Arthur Singer, Frederick Kent Truslow, Rolf Jensen, Robert Gillmor, Donald L Malick, Orville O Rice, Tony Angell, John A Gwynne, Jr., Albert E. Gilbert, Don Radovich.

The Living Bird Twelfth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1973 Main contents: Migratory Patterns of Ruddy Turnstones in Central Pacific Region - Max C. Thompson Nesting and Survival in a Population of Florida Scrub Jays - Glen E. Woolfenden Green-Barred Flicker & Golden-Green Woodpeckerof South America - Lester L. Short Factors Directing Prey-Attack by the Young of Three Passerine Species - Susan M. Smith Adaptive Aspects of the Mountain Plover Social System - Walter D. Graul Passerine Birds of the Falkland Islands: Their Behavior and Ecology - Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. Breeding Behavior of the Snowy Owl - Philip S. Taylor Avian Evolution in the Aridlands of North America - John P. Hubbard Nest of the Northern Parula - David F. Parmelee Bristles of Birds - Peter R. Stettenheim Ecology of Social Organization in the Black-capped Chickadee - Jon C. Glase Avian Ecology of a Managed Glacial Marsh - Milton W. Weller and Leigh H. Fredrickson Illustrations by: Jo Polseno, William C Dilger, Don R Eckleberry, Orville O Rice, George Miksch Sutton, Charles L Ripper, Mary M Tremaine, John Wiessenger, Don Radovich, Donald L eo Malick, R B Ewing, Valpage, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Diane Pierce, Robert Gillmor, Tony Angell

The Living Bird Eleventh Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1972 Main contents: Breeding Biology of the Pinon Jay - Russell P. Balda and Gary C. Bateman Polyandry in the Spotted Sandpiper - Helen Hays Monogamy and Polyandry in the Spotted Sandpiper - Lewis W. Oring and Merle L. Knudson Biology of African Bee-eaters - C. Hilary Fry Time-lapse Photographic Records of Nesting PeregrineFalcons - James H. Enderson, Stanley A. Temple, and Gerard Swartz Wintering Warblers in Jamaica - David Lack and Peter Lack Development of Four North American Herons - William McVaugh, Jr. Blue Duck of New Zealand - Janet Kear Food Requirements and Growth of Cattle Egrets in South Africa - W. Roy Siegfried Distribution and Ecology of the Puerto Rican Whip-poor will, and Endangered Species - Cameron B. Kepler and Angela K. Kepler Illustrations by: Guy Coheleach, Robert Gillmor, N W Cusa, A J Whitten, Graham Byford, E E Jackson, Godfrey R Bourne, William McVaugh Jr, Louis Agass iz Fuertes, John Henry Dick, Diane Pierce, Tony Angell, Albert E Gilbert, Cristopher Pineo, John O'Neill, Donald Leo Malick

The Living Bird Tenth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1971 Main contents: Observations on the Purple-throated Fruit-Crow in Guyana - David W. Snow Laysan Albatross: Its Incubation, Hatching, and Associated Behaviors - Harvey I. Fisher The Biology of the American Finfoot in Southern Mexico - Miguel Alvarez del Toro Overlap in the Diet of Some Neotropical Birds - Charles F. Leck Cliff-nesting Raptors and Ravens Along the Colville River in Arctic Alaska - Clayton M. White and Tom J. Cade Social Behavior and Taxonomic Relationships of the Storks - M. Philip Kahl Vocalizations of the Chuck-will's-Widow and Some Related Behavior - Robert M. Mengel and Marion Anne Jenkinson An Ecological Study of the Birds of the Lowland Pine Savanna and Adjacent Rain forest in Northeastern Nicaragua - Thomas R. Howell Egg-pecking Behavior in Galapagos Mockingbirds - Robert I. Bowman and Anne Carter Grooming Behaviors of the Blue Jay - A.R. Weisbrod Illustrations by: Albert Earl Gilbert, Orville O Rice, Barry Kent M ackay, Paul Geraghty, George Miksch Sutton, Tony Angell

The Living Bird Ninth Annual The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1970 Main contents: A Study Of Nesting Torrent Ducks In The Andes - George M Moffett, Jr Displays Of Four Species Of Blue-Winged Ducks - Frank McKinney The Shoulder-Spot Display Of Grouse - H G Lumsden Orientation In Gulls: Effect Of Distance, Direction Of Release And Wind - William E Southern Breeding Behavior Of The Sanderling In The Canadian High Arctic - David F Parmelee The Scarlet Ibis in Surinam and Trinidad - Richard P ffrench and F Haverschmidt Breeding Behavior Of The Rock Ptamigan - S D MacDonald The Eastern Bluebird: Its Breeding Season, Clutch Size And Nesting Success - David B Peakall A Photographic Study Of The Potoo In Colombia - Jose Ignacio Borrero H. Life history of the Common Potoo - Alexander F Skutch Illustrations by: Robert Gillmor, R A Richardson, Albert Earl Gilbert, Keith Shackleton, Tony Angell, J H Czech, George Miksch Sutton, John Henry Dick, Paul Barruel, F Haverschmidt, John Crosby, and William Zimmerman	Buy from amazon.co.uk

The Living Bird Eighth Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill, Douglas A. Lancaster The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1969 Main contents: A study of the Cape Robin in Southern Africa - Mary K. Rowan A Study of Seedsnipe in Southern South America - Gordon L. Maclean Technique for Rearing Passerine Birds from the Egg - Wesley E. Lanyon and Vernia H. Lanyon Studies of a Nesting Colony of Green Herons at San Blas Nayarit, Mexico - Robert W. Dickerman and Gonzalo Gavino T Development of Migratory Orientation in Young Indigo Buntings - Stephen T. Emlen What Is a Tanager - Robert W. Storer Ecology and Adaptations of the Trembler on the Island of Dominica - Richard L. Zusi Nesting Cycle of Songbirds in Tropical and Temperate Regions - Robert E. Ricklefs Comparative Study of Mollusc Predation by Limpkins, Everglade Kites, and Boat-tailed Grackles - Noel F. R. Snyder and Helen A. Snyder Study of the Ferruginous Hawk: Adult & Brood Behavior - Tony Angell Discovery of the Nest of the Hawaiian Thrush - Andrew J. Berger Includes artwork by Charles L. Ripper.

The Living Bird Seventh Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill, Douglas A. Lancaster The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1968 Main contents: Courtship and Territorial Behavior of Franklin's Race of the Spruce Grouse - S.D. MacDonald Alarm Sounds and Responses of Birds and Their Application in Controlling Problem Species - Gordon W. Boudrea Singing Assemblies of Little Hermits - D.W. Snow Observation on the Behavior of Kittlitz's Sandplovers at the New York Zoological Park - William G. Conway and Joseph Bell Experiments on the Homing Ability of Purple Martins - William E. Southern Some Notes on the Chick-carring Behavior in the African Jacana - John B.D. Hopcraft A Review of Parental Carrying of Young by Waterfowl - Paul A. Johnsgard and Janet Kear Behavior of Hand-Raised Kirtland's Warblers - Andrew J. Berger Survival of Ruffed Grouse in a Boreal Forest - Gordon W. Gullion and William H. Marshall The Breeding Biology of the Parasitic Black-Headed Duck - Milton W. Weller Field Studies on the Sandgrouse of the Kalahari Desert - Gordon L. Maclean The Gyrfalcon and Falconry - Tom J. Cade

The Living Bird Sixth Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill, Douglas A. Lancaster The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1967 Main contents: Courtship Behavior in Manakins (Pipridae): A Review. - Helmut Sick Observations on Galapagos Tool-using Finches in Captivity - George C. Millikan and Robert I. Bowman Ecological and Behavioral Aspects of Predation by the Northern Shrike - Tom J. Cade Factors Affecting the Occurrence of the Eurasian Lapwing in Eastern North America - Aaron M. Bagg Dickcissel on It's Wintering Grounds in Trinidad - Richard P. ffrench Songs of the Yellowthroat - Donald J. Borror Status of Newell's Race of the Manx Shearwater - Warren B. King and Patrick J. Gould Ecological Adaptations in the Life History of the Brown Booby at Ascension Island. - K.E.L. Simmons Migratory Flights of Hylocichla Thrushes in Spring: A Radiotelemetry Study - W.W. Cochran, G.G. Montgomery and R.R. Graber Egg-carrying by the Pileated Woodpecker - Frederick K. Truslow Includes artwork by Arthur Singer.

The Living Bird Fifth Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill, Douglas A. Lancaster The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1966 Main contents: Nesting of the Hudsonian Godwit at Churchill, Manitoba - Joseph A. Hagar Behavior and Ecology of the South African Ostrich - E.G. Franz Sauer and Eleonore M. Sauer Speculations on the Origin of Feathers - Kenneth C. Parkes Activities and Coactions of Animals at Sapsucker Trees - William L. Foster and James Tate Pecking Responses of Peafowl chicks - William C. Dilger and J. Cherrill Wallen Regional Variation in the Song of the Carolina Chickadee - Rodman Ward Some Observations on Habitats of the Swainson's Warbler - Brooke Meanley Hearing Loss and Bird Song - Harold Mayfield Ground-Nesting Great Horned Owl - Frederick Kent Truslow A Photographic Study Role of Migrant Birds at Swarms of Army Ants - Edwin O. Willis Includes artwork by Roger Tory Peterson and George Miksch Sutton.

The Living Bird Fourth Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill, Douglas A. Lancaster The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1965 Main contents: Nesting of a Pair of Canada Warblers - Herbert Krause Brown-Headed Cowbird, with Old and New Hosts - Harold Mayfield Blood-Eating in a Galapagos Finch - Robert I. Bowman and Stephen L. Billeb Biotelemetry: A New Technique for Wildlife Research - William E. Southern Color Phases of the Western Grebe - Robert W. Storer Kelp Geese and Flightless Steamer Ducks in the Falkland Islands - Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. Recording the Flight-Speed of Birds by Doppler Radar - Gary D. Schnell Character Displacement in Some Phillippine Cuckoos - Kenneth C. Parkes Sound Production in Two Species of Geese - Charles A. Sutherland and Donald S.McChesney Relationships Between Two forms of the red-winged Blackbird - John William Hardy and Robert W. Dickerman Techniques in Bird Illustration - Don Richard Eckelberry Displays and Songs of a Hand-raised Eastern Meadowlark - Margaret Morse Nice

The Living Bird Third Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1964 Main contents: Survival in the Painted Bunting - David Freeland Parmelee Probable History of Species Formation in Some Northern Wood Warblers (Parulidae). - Robert M. Mengel Penguins Ashore at the Falkland Islands. - Olin Sewal Pettingill, Jr. Radar View of Bird Migration - Jeff Swinebroad Breeding Behavior of the American kestrel (Sparrow Hawk) - Ernest J. Willoughby and Tom J. Cade Songs of the Apapane - William V. Ward Birds in English Poetry - Thomas P. Harrison Evolution in the African Parrots Genus Agapornis - William C. Dilger Life Histories & the Evolution of Megapodes - George A. Clark, Jr. Northern Waterthrush in Venezuela - Paul Schwartz Solar Eclipse and Bird Song - Peter Paul Kellogg and Calvin M. Hutchinson Cover illustration: George Miksh Sutton.

The Living Bird Second Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1963 Main contents: Some Remarks on Trogons with Special Reference to the Mountain Trogon - Don Richard Eckelberry Nesting and Productivity of the Red-Winged Blackbird in Relation to Habitat - Neil A. Case and Oliver H. Hewitt Living cycles of Three Australian Parrots Some Comparative and Population Aspects - John Le Gay Brereton Notes on the Behavior of Common Nighthawks in Florida - Charles A. Sutherland Influence of the Nest-Site on Incubation in Mourning and Ringed Turtle Doves - Ronald J. Hock All-Day Observations at a Robin's Nest - Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. Touracos, The: An African Bird Family - James P. Chapin Birds in Art & Illustration - Don Richard Eckelberry Louis Fuertes Revisited - Frederick George Marcham Bird Photography at Sapsucker Woods - Arthur A. Allen Contribution of Museum Collections to Knowledge of the Living Bird - Kenneth C. Parkes Importance of Birds in the Ecology of Arthropod-Borne Animal Viruses - William F. Scherer Cadence of Bird Song - George B. Reynard - 139@Authors Briefly Noted

The Living Bird First Annual Editor: Olin Sewall Pettingill The Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University 1962 Illustrations by: William C. Dilger Main contents: Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology - Arthur A. Allen Bird-Sound Studies at Cornell - Peter Paul Kellogg Ornithology at Cornell Today - Gustav A. Swanson The Rediscovery of the Puerto Rican Whip-poor-will - George B. Reynard A Comparative Study of Songs Recorded From Five Closely Related Warblers - Robert C. Stein Is Bird-Art Art? - George Miksch Sutton Behavioral Research at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Niko Tinbergen Methods and Objectives of Ethology - William C. Dilger The Effects of Nest-Entrance Positions and Male Vocalizations on Reproduction in Budgerigars - Barbara F. Brockway The Comparative Ethology of Wood Warblers: A Review - Millicent S. & Robert W. Ficken Sexual Behavior in the Canda Goose - Robert B. Klopman Behavior of the Eastern Bluebird at the Nest - James M. Hartshorne How the Barn Owl Locates Prey by Hearing - Roger S. Payne	Buy from amazon.co.uk