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Studies in Avian Biology - Number 19

Ecology and Conservation of Grassland Birds of the Western Hemisphere

Peter D. Vickery and James R. Herkert


v List of Authors
1 Preface
Peter D. Vickery and James R. Herkert
INTRODUCTION
2 Conservation of grassland birds in the Western Hemisphere
Peter D. Vickery, Pablo L. Tubaro, José Maria Cardosa da Silva, Bruce G. Peterjohn, James R. Herkert, and Roberto B. Cavalcanti
ECOLOGY
27 Population status of North American grassland birds from the North American Breeding Bird Survey, 1966-1996
Bruce G. Peterjohn and John R. Sauer
45 Linking continental climate, land use, and land patterns with grassland bird distribution across the conterminous United States
Raymond J. O'Connor, Malcolm T. Jones, Randall B. Boone, and T Bruce Lauber
60 History of grassland birds in eastern North America
Robert A. Askins
72 Grassland bird conservation in northeastern North America
Jeffrey V. Wells and Kenneth V. Rosenberg
81 Use of cultivated fields by breeding Mountain Plovers in Colorado
Fritz L. Knopf and Jeffery R. Rupert
87 Changes in bird populations on Canadian grasslands
C. Stuart Houston and Josef K. Schmutz
95 Multiscale habitat associations of the Sage Sparrow: implications for conservation biology
John T. Rotenberry and Steven T. Knick
104 Spatial distribution of breeding passerine bird habitats in a shrubsteppe region of southwestern Idaho
Steven T Knick and John T Rotenberry
BREEDING ECOLOGY
Habitat Selection
112 Habitat relations and breeding biology of grassland birds in New York
Christopher J. Norment, Charles D. Ardizzone, and Kathleen Hartman
122 Experimental analysis of nest predation in a New York grassland: effects of habitat and nest distribution
Charles D. Ardizzone and Christopher J. Norment
128 Satellite burrow use by Burrowing Owl chicks and its influence on nest fate
Martha J. Desmond and Julie A. Savidge
131 Songbird abundance in grasslands at a suburban interface on the Colorado High Plains
Carl E. Bock, Jane H. Bock, and Barry C. Bennett
137 Thermal aspects of nest-site location for Vesper Sparrows and Horned Larks in British Columbia
Kari J. Nelson and Kathy Martin
Fire
144 The effects of summer burns on breeding Florida Grasshopper and Bachman s sparrows
W. Gregory Shriver, Peter D. Vickery, and Dustin W. Perkins
149 Effects of fire and herbicide treatment on habitat selection in grassland birds in southern Maine
Peter D. Vickery, Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr., and Jeffrey V. Wells
160 Henslow's Sparrow response to prescribed fire in an Illinois prairie remnant
James R. Herkert and William D. Glass
165 Effects of prescribed burning and grazing on nesting and reproductive success of three grassland passerine species in tallgrass prairie
Ronald W Rohrbaugh, Jr., Dan L. Reinking, Donald H. Wolfe, Steve K. Sherrod, and M. Alan Jenkins
171 Relationship of fire history to territory size, breeding density, and habitat of Baird's Sparrow in North Dakota
Maiken Winter
Conservation Reserve Program
178 Le Conte's Sparrows breeding in Conservation Reserve Program fields: precipitation and patterns of population change
Lawrence D. Igl and Douglas H. Johnson
187 Density and fledging success of grassland birds in Conservation Reserve Program fields in North Dakota and west-central Minnesota
Rolf R. Koford
Management
196 Nesting birds and grazing cattle: accommodating both on Midwestern pastures
Stanley A. Temple, Brick M. Fevold, Laura K. Paine, Daniel J. Undersander, and David W Sample
203 Bird populations of seeded grasslands in the Aspen Parkland of Alberta
David R. C. Prescott and Andrew J. Murphy
211 Grassland songbird occurrence in native and crested wheatgrass pastures of southern Saskatchewan
Stephen K. Davis and David C. Duncan
Data Collection and Analysis
219 Monitoring grassland birds in nocturnal migration
William R. Evans and David K. Mellinger
230 Design and duration of perturbation experiments: implications for data interpretation
Kenneth L. Petersen and Louis B. Best
237 Sampling considerations for estimating density of passerines in grasslands
Jay J. Rotella, Elizabeth M. Madden, and Andrew J. Hansen
LATIN AMERICA
244 Bird species richness and conservation in the Cerrado region of central Brazil
Roberto B. Cavalcanti
250 The decline of the Pampas Meadowlark: difficulties of applying the IUCN criteria to neotropical grassland birds
Pablo Luis Tubaro and Fabián Marcelo Gabelli
258 A preliminary assessment of distributions and conservation needs of grassland birds in Mexico
A. Townsend Peterson and Mark B. Robbins
263 Grassland birds in prairie-dog towns in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico
Patricia Manzano-Fischer, Rurik List, and Gerardo Ceballos
272 Seasonal movements and conservation of seedeaters of the genus Sporophila in South America
José Maria Cardosa da Silva
281 Demographic characteristics of Dickcissels in winter
Gianfranco D. Basili and Stanley A. Temple
289 Winter ecology, behavior, and conservation needs of Dickcissels in Venezuela
Gianfranco D. Basili and Stanley A. Temple
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