Research Catalog

Title

Research and management of the brown-headed cowbird in western landscapes : proceedings of a symposium of Partners in Flight-Research Working Group [and others] / Michael L. Morrison [and others], editors.

Publication

Camarillo, CA : Cooper Ornithological Society, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Morrison, Michael L.
• Partners in Flight. Research Working Group.

Description

312 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 26 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in avian biology ; no. 18

Uniform Title

Studies in avian biology ; no. 18.

Alternative Title

Brown-headed cowbirds in western landscapes

Subject

• Brown-headed cowbird > Ecology > West (U.S.)
• Brown-headed cowbird > Conservation > West (U.S.)
• Birds > Conservation > West (U.S.)
• Birds > Conservation
• Icteridae
• West United States

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses.
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-312).

Contents

• Section I. Cowbird ecology: factors affecting the abundence and distribution of cowbirds / Scott K. Robinson -- Review of the causes and implications of the association between cowbirds and livestock / Christopher B. Goguen, Nancy E. Matthews -- Managing riparian vegetation to control cowbirds / Cara A. Staab, Michael L. Morrison -- Cowbirds in a western valley: effects of landscape structure, vegetation, and host density / Joshua J. Tewksbury ... [et al.] -- Parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds in the shrubsteppe of eastern Washington / W. Matthew Vander Haegen, Brett Walker -- Habitat and landscape factors affecting cowbird distribution in the northern Rockies / Jock S. Young, Richard L. Hutto -- Use of different habitats by breeding brown-headed cowbirds in fragmented midwestern landscapes / Scott K. Robinson ... [et al.] -- Density and distribution of brown-headed cowbirds: the central coastal California enigma / Chris Farmer.
• Landscape effects on cowbird occurances in Michigan: implications to research needs in forests of the inland west / John M. Stribley, Jonathan B. Haufler -- Brown-headed cowbirds in ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir-dominated landscapes in the northern Rocky Mountains / Sallie J. Hejl, Jock S. Young -- Scale dependence in the effects of forest coverage on parasitization by brown-headed cowbirds / W.M. Hochachka ... [et al.] -- Past and present distribution of the brown-headed cowbird in the Rocky Mountain region / Jameson F. Chace, Alexander Cruz -- Distribution and abundance of brown-headed cowbirds in the wilderness of central Idaho / Anthony Wright -- Abundance and rates of brood parasitism by brown-headed crowbirds over an elevational gradient in the southern Sierra Nevada / Kathryn L. Purcell, Jared Verner.
• Section II. The basis for cowbird management: host selection, impacts on hosts, and criteria for taking management action / James N.M. Smith -- Cowbird parasitism of Arizona Bell's vireos (Vireo bellii arizonae) in a desert riparian landscape: implications for cowbird management and riparian restoration / Annalaura Averill-Murray, Suellen Lynn, Michael L. Morrison -- What do demographic sensitivity analyses tell us about controlling brown-headed cowbirds? / John J. Citta, L. Scott Mills -- Lazuli buntings and brown-headed cowbirds in Montana: a state-wide landscape analysis of potenial sources and sinks / Erick Greene, Jennifer Jolivette, Roland Redmond -- Demographic consequences of brown-headed cowbird parasitization of Lazuli buntings / Erick Greene.
• Assessing the impact of brown-headed cowbird parasitism in eight national parks / Mary D. Halterman, Sarah Allen, Stephen A. Laymon -- Impacts of brown-headed cowbird parasitism on productivity of the endangered Least Bell's vireo / Barbara E. Kus -- Costs of brown-headed cowbird parasitism to willow flycatchers / James A. Sedgwick, William M. Iko -- Range-wide impact of brown-headed cowbird parasitism on the south-western willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus) / Mary J. Whitfield, Mark K. Sogge -- Importance of predation and brood parasitism on nest success in four sparrow species in southern Californian coastal sage scrub / Kevin Ellison -- Influence of landscape and cowbird parasitism on the reproductive success of Plumbeous vireos breeding in Colorado / Jameson F. Chace, Alexander Cruz.
• Spatial and genetic analysis of cowbird host selection / D. Caldwell Hahn ... [et al.] -- Common yellowthroat brood parasitism and nest success vary with host density and site characteristics / Hilde Spautz -- Cowbird removal programs as ecological experiments: measuring community-wide impacts of nest parasitism and predation / Krista L. De Groot, James N.M. Smith, Mary J. Taitt -- Parasitism and egg puncture behavior by bronzed and brown-headed cowbirds in sympatry / Brian D. Peer, Spencer G. Sealy -- Meta-analysis of the impact of parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird on its hosts / Janice C. Lorenzana, Spencer G. Sealy.
• Section III. Cowbird control: the efficacy of long-term control and proposed alternatives to standard control pratices / Linnea S. Hall, Stephen I. Rothstein -- Is brown-headed cowbird trapping effective for managing populations of the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher? / Mary J. Whitfield, Kristen M. Enos, Sean P. Rowe -- Effective landscape management of brown-headed cowbirds at Fort Hood, Texas / G.H. Eckrich, T.E. Koloszar, M.D. Goering -- Effects of prescribed burning and habitat edges on brown-headed cowbird parasitism of red-winged blackbirds / Ethan D. Clotfelter, Ken Yasukawa, Richard D. Newsome -- Cowbird trapping in remote areas: alternative control measures may be more effective / Kirsten J. Winter, Sharon D. McKelvey -- Golden-cheeked warbler fatality in a cowbird trap / Kristen K. Terpening.

ISBN

• 1891276069
• 9781891276064

LCCN

99074167

OCLC

• ocm41553705
• 41553705
• SCSB-9689110

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library