Long-term population trends of colonial wading birds in the southeastern United States: the impact of crayfish aquaculture on Louisiana populations. Auk. 1995;112:613-32.Fleury B. E., Sherry T. W. 1995 . Long-term population trends of colonial wading birds in the southern United States: The...
The broadest mix of species tends to occur at those places where different environmental regimes intersect. Some 400 species have been counted, for instance, in the Chiricahua Mountains, in southeastern Arizona, where the Chihuahuan Desert, the Sonoran Desert, the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Ma...
The southeastern United States also contains a diversity of drygrass prairie, coastal grasslands, and pine and live-oak savannas that have suffered conversion rates of > 80% (Noss 2013), and much of this remaining habitat is unsuitable for grassland birds because of chronic fire suppression. ...
What the grizzly is to the Rockies, the red-cockaded woodpecker is to the piney woods. Old trees, frequent fire, and luscious ground cover—the staples of good RCW habitat—also nurture myriad other southeastern species. Granted, the umbrella has a few holes: Riparian animals, like some but...
Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence and genotype diversity in select wildlife species from the southeastern United States Parasites Vectors, 10 (1) (2017), p. 508 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Geng et al., 2009 R. Geng, X. Zhang, W. Ou, H. Sun, F. Lei, W. Gao, H. Wang Diet and prey...
The white throated sparrow, for example, spends winters in the southeastern United States but spreads out in spring to cover the northeastern U.S. and a broad swath of Canada's boreal forest, a much larger overall range than their winter habitat. After the nesting season ends, the birds ...
The Black Vulture is the more common vulture in the southeastern United States, while it is largely absent in most of the western and northern parts of the country. They are typically much more gregarious thanTurkey Vultures, often found in large flocks, and dominating carcasses where the two ...
Click here to hear thecall of an Eastern Towhee2 Migration: Northern populations (including those in South Dakota) migrate south in the fall. Eastern Towhees overwinter in the southeastern part of the United States, but will sometimes overwinter as far north as the Mid-Atlantic or southern Corn...
Throughout history, the relationship between humans and birds has been rich and multifaceted, shaped by necessity, respect, and ingenuity. From early hunters-foragers relying on wildfowl for subsistence to the sacred role of birds in rituals and mythology, these creatures have held a central place...