Research Catalog

Title

Migration, harvest, and population dynamics of mourning doves banded in the Central Management Unit, 1967-77 / by James H. Dunks ... [et al.].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1982.

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Additional Authors

• Dunks, James H.
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006435

Description

iv, 128 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

A banding program for mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) was conducted by the 14 Central Management Unit (CMU) States and the U.S. FIsh and Wildlife Service during 1967-74. Banding and recovery records, as well as data from annual call-count and harvest surveys, were subsequently analyzed by a subcommittee of the Central Migratory Shore and Upland Game Bird Technical Committee. This paper presents information on mourning dove habitat, hunting regulations, and harvest in the CMU; distribution and derviation of band recoveries in and from CMU; distribution of mourning dove harvest in Mexico and Central America; chronology of migration; survival and recovery rates; effects of hunting on CMU mourning dove populations; and indirect nationwide mourning dove population estimates.

Series Statement

Special scientific report--wildlife ; no. 249

Uniform Title

Special scientific report--wildlife ; no. 249.

Subjects

• Birds > United States
• Mourning dove shooting > United States
• Birds > West (U.S.)
• Mourning dove > West (U.S.)
• Bird banding > United States
• Mourning dove > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 35-37.

Contents

• Abstract.
• Background.
• Central Management Unit Mourning Dove Habitat.
• Mourning Dove Hunting Regulations and Harvest.
• Objectives of Banding and Underlying Assumptions.
• Objectives of the Central Management Unit Banding Analysis.
• Methods.
• Results.
• Distribution of the Harvest.
• Derivation of the Harvest.
• Chronology of Migration.
• Summary.
• Acknowledgments.
• References.
• Appendix A. Tables A-1 to A-82.
• Appendix B. State Representatives on the Central Migratory Shore and Upland Game Bird Technical Committee.
• Appendix C. Individuals and Agencies Who Banded More than 100 Mourning Doves.
• Appendix D. Glossary.

LCCN

82600275

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