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• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

  - 2007-04-01

  The One Hundred and Twenty-second Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union was held 16-21 August 2004 at the Université Lavai, Québec, QC, Canada. This was a joint meeting with the Society of Canadian Ornithologists / Société des Ornithologistes du Canada. The Local Host was the Université Lavai. Sponsors included...

  Tags: abundance, Arizona, Auburn University, biology, Canada, Chair, Computer Associates International Inc., conservation, Editor, financial, habitat, Kingston Technology Corp., Louisiana, Maine, Mexico, migration, Queen, Saskatchewan, Smithsonian Institution, species, Taiwan, Toronto

• PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

  - 2007-04-01

  The One Hundred and Twenty-third Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union was held 23-27 August 2005 at the University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. The Local Hosts were the University of California - Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, with the assistance...

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• Press Conference: Major Report on Tigers to be Released Thursday at National Zoo

  - 2006-07-17

  News Advisory: WHAT: The most comprehensive scientific study of tiger habitat ever done will be released at a press conference at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. at 8 a.m., Thursday, July 20. The study, produced by some of the world's leading tiger scientists contains startling new findings and...

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• Proceedings of the eighty-sixth annual meeting.

  - 2005-12-01

  The eighty-sixth annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society was held Thursday, 21 April, through Sunday, 24 April 2005, at the Sheraton Hotel in Beltsville, Maryland, in joint session with the Association of Field Ornithologists. The meeting was hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey USGS Patuxent...

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• SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM LISTING FOR THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

  - 2004-07-01

  6 - 9 August 2003University of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana, IllinoisThursday, 7 August 2003Plenary 1. Linking life zones, life history traits and cognition in select southwestern seed caching corvids. RUSSELL P. BALDA, Dept. Biol. Sci., Univ. N. Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ.Symposium A. The legacy of S. Charles Kendeigh. Douglas A. James, organizer.The legacy of...

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• National Zoo Breaks New Ground for Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat and Asia Trail

  - 2004-04-28

  WASHINGTON, April 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Zoo broke new ground today, April 28, on the future site of the Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat, the first step in a 10-year renovation of the Zoo. The first phase of the Zoo's renovation is called Asia Trail, and will cover...

  Tags: FINANCE, habitat, Smithsonian Institution, species, Washington

• Npt 100.(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2001-11-01

  NPT 100 Name ...

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• THE TAMARIN TAKES OFF.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-09-01

  The golden lion tamarin, one of the most endangered primate species in the world, reached a milestone last March with the birth of the 1,000th animal. The tamarin, indigenous to the Atlantic rainforests of Brazil, was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, and down to...

  Tags: brink, extinction, FINANCE, habitat, Litigation, Smithsonian Institution

• FLOCKING AND FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF WINTERING PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS.

  - 2000-03-01

  IAN G. WARKENTIN [1,2,4] EUGENE S. MORTON [1,3] ABSTRACT--We quantified flocking behavior and examined the impact of social context (solitary, single-species flocks, and mixed-species flocks) on the foraging behavior of Prothonotary Warblers Protonotaria citrea wintering in a Costa Rican mangrove forest...

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• Population limitation in neotropical migratory birds: Comments on Rappole and McDonald (1994)

  - 1997-10-01

  The importance of breeding- and winteringground phenomena in population declines of Neotropical migratory birds is the topic of much debate and discussion (see Martin and Finch 1995, Sherry and Holmes 1995). Recently, Rappole and McDonald (1994) provided and evaluated 14 predictions that they argued should be supported if population declines...

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