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Author:

Ribic, Christine A.

Title:

Video surveillance of nesting birds / Christine A. Ribic, Frank R. Thompson III, and Pamela J. Pietz.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xv, 223 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Bird populations.
Birds--Methodology.--Methodology.
Birds--Nests.
Birds--Behavior.
Ornithology--Methodology.
Ornithology--Technique.

Other Authors:

Thompson, Frank R. (Frank Richard)
Pietz, Pamela J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Knowledge gained from video-monitoring grassland passerine nests -- Conservation implications when the nest predators are known -- Gamebirds and nest cameras: present and future -- Hatching and fledging times from grassland passerine nests -- Attendance patterns and survival of western meadowlark nests -- Sprague's pipit incubation behavior -- Patterns of incubation behavior in northern bobwhites -- The influence of weather on shorebird incubation -- Nocturnal activity of nesting shrubland and grassland passerines -- Bird productivity and nest predation in agricultural grasslands -- Predatory identity can explain nest predation patterns -- Nest defense: grassland bird responses to snakes -- Partial depredations on northern bobwhite nests -- Identification of Sprague's pipit nest predators -- Development of camera technology for monitoring nests.

Series:

Studies in avian biology ; No. 43

ISBN:

0520273133 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520273139 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2011044824

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)