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Migration of Birds (1979)

by Frederick Charles Lincoln

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Part 5. Movements in August, Winter and Spring, and Conclusion.

Ibis 105(4): 461-492.

Lewis, H. F.

1937. Migrations of the American Brant (Branta bernicla hrota). Auk 54: 73-95.

Lincoln, F. C.

1917. Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrula) in Colorado. Auk 34: 341.

1922. Trapping ducks for banding purposes: with an account of the results obtained from one waterfowl station. Auk 39: 322-334.

1924a. Banding notes on the migration of the Pintail. Condor 26: 88-90.

1924b. Returns from banded birds, 1920 to 1923. U.S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 1268. 56 p.

1926. The migration of the Cackling Goose. Condor 28: 153-157.

1927a. Notes on the migration of young Common Terns. Northeastern Bird-Banding Assoc. Bull. 3: 23-28.

1927b. Returns from banded birds, 1923 to 1926. U.S. Dept. Agr. Tech. Bull. 32. 95 p.

1928. The migration of young North American Herring Gulls. Auk 45: 49-59.

1934. Distribution and migration of the Redhead (Nyroca americana). Trans. Twentieth Am. Game Conf.: 280-287.

1935a. The waterfowl flyways of North America. U.S. Dept. Agr. Cir. 342. 12 p.

1935b. The migration of North American birds. U.S. Dept. Agr. Cir. 363. 72 p. 1937. Our greatest travelers. In: The book of birds. Natl. Geog. Mag. 2: 301-350.

1939a. The migration of American birds. Doubleday, Doran & Co., N.Y. 189 p.

1939b. The individual vs. the species in migration studies. Auk 56(3): 250-254.

1941. The waterfowl flyways. Wild ducks. Am. Wildl. Inst. 20-29.

1945. Flyway regulations. Trans. Tenth North Am. Wildl. Conf.: 50-51.

1946. Keeping up with the waterfowl. Audubon Mag. 48(3): 194-205. Reprinted as U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Leaflet 294. April 1947. 10 p.

Lowery, G. H. Jr.

1945. Trans-gulf spring migration of birds and the coastal hiatus. Wilson Bull. 57(2): 92-121.

1946. Evidence of trans-gulf migration. Auk 63(2): 175-211.

1951. A quantitative study of the nocturnal migration of birds. Univ. Kan. Pub. Mus. Nat. Hist. 3(2): 361-472.

Lowery, G. H., Jr. and R. J. Newman.

1966. A continentwide view of bird migration on four nights in October. Auk 83(4): 547-586.

Lucanus, F. von.

1911. Ueber die Hohe des vogelzuges. Verh. V Int. Ornithol. Congr. 557-562.

McMillan, N. T.

1938. Birds and the wind. Bird Lore 40(6): 397-406. Reprinted Smithson. Rep. for 1939: 355-363.

Magee, M. J.

1938. Evening Grosbeak recoveries. Northeastern Bird-Banding Assoc. Bull. 4: 56-59.

Main, J. S.

1932. The influence of temperature on migration. Wilson Bull. 44: 10-12.

Manville, R. H.

1963. Altitude record for mallard. Wilson Bull. 75: 9

Marshall, A. J.

1961. Breeding seasons and migration. Chapter 21: 307-339. In: Biology and comparative physiology of birds, Vol. II. A. J. Marshall ed. Academic Press, N.Y. and London. 468 p.

Matthews, G. V. T.

1951. The experimental investigation of navigation in homing pigeons. J. Exp. Biol. 28: 508-536.

1955. Bird navigation. Univ. Press, Cambridge. 141 p.

May, J. B.

1929. Recoveries of Black-crowned Night Herons banded in Massachusetts. Northeastern Bird-Banding Assoc. Bull. 5: 7-16.

Mazzeo, R.

1953. Homing of the Manx Shearwater. Auk 70: 200-201.

Meanly, B.

1971. Blackbirds and the southern rice crop. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Res. Pub. 100. 64 p.

Meinertzhagen, R.

1920. Some preliminary remarks on the altitude of the migratory flight of birds with special reference to the Paleoarctic region. Ibis, Series 11, 2: 920-936.

1921. Some preliminary remarks on the velocity of migratory flight among birds with special reference to the Paleoarctic region. Ibis, Series 11, 3(2): 228-238.

1955. The speed and altitude of bird flight (with notes on other animals). Ibis 97: 81-117.

Mewaldt, L. R. and R. G. Rose.

1960. Orientation of migratory restlessness in the White-crowned Sparrow. Science 131: 105-106.

Miller, A. H.

1963. Photoregulative and innate factors in the reproductive cycles of an equatorial sparrow. Proc. XVI Int. Congr. Zool. 1: 166.

Moreau, R. E.

1951. The migration system in perspective. Proc. X Int. Ornithol. Cong. 245-248

1953. Migration in the Mediterranean area. Ibis 95: 329-364.

1961. Problems of Mediterranean-Sahara migration, Part 3. Ibis 103a(4): 580-623.

Mueller, H. C. and D. D. Berger.

1967a. Fall migration of Sharp-shinned Hawks. Wilson Bull. 79: 397-415.

1967b. Wind drift, leading lines, and diurnal migration. Wilson Bull. 79(1): 50-63.

Murphy, R. C.

1936. Oceanic birds of South America. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. New York. 2 vol.

Murray, B. G. Jr.

1964. A review of Sharp-shinned Hawk migration along the northeastern coast of the United States. Wilson Bull. 76: 257-264.

1965. On the autumn migration of the Blackpoll Warbler. Wilson Bull. 77(2): 122-133.

Murray, B. G. Jr. and J. R. Jehl Jr.

1964. Weights of autumn migrants from coastal New Jersey. Bird-Banding 35: 253-263.

Nice, M. M.

1937. Studies in the life history of the Song Sparrow. I. A population study of the Song Sparrow. Trans. Linn. Soc. N.Y. 4: 1-247.

Nisbet, I. C. T.

1961. Studying migration by moon-watching. Bird-Migr. 2(1): 38-42.

1963a. Quantitative study of migration with 23-centimeter radar. Ibis 105(4): 435-460.

Nisbet, I. C. T.

1963b. Measurements with radar of the height of nocturnal migration over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Bird-Banding 34(2): 57-67.

Nisbet, I. C. T. and W. H. Drury Jr.

1967a. Scanning the sky/birds on radar. Mass. Audubon 51: 166-174.

1967b. Weather and migration. Mass. Audubon 52(1): 12-19.

1968. Short-term effects of weather on bird migration: A field study using multivariate statistics. Anim. Behav. 16(4): 496-530.

Odum, E. P.

1958. The fat deposition picture in the White-throated Sparrow in comparison with that in long-range migrants. Bird-Banding 29(1): 105-108.

Oldaker, R. F.

1961. 1960 survey of the California Gull. West. Bird Bander. 36(3): 26-30.

Orr, R. T.

1970. Animals in migration. MacMillan Co. Collier-MacMillan Ltd. London. 303 p.

Packard, F. M.

1945. The birds of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Auk 62: 371-394.

Parslow, J. L. F.

1969. The migration of passerine night migrants across the English Channel studied by radar. Ibis 111 (1): 48-79.

Pennycuick, D. J.

1969. The mechanics of bird migration. Ibis 111: 525-556.

Perdeck, A. C.

1967. Orientation of starlings after displacement to Spain. Ardea 55(3-4): 194-204.

Peterson, R.

1961. The long journey. Audubon Mag. 63(2): 72-75.

Pettingill, O. S. Jr.

1962. Hawk migrations around the Great Lakes. Audubon Mag. 64: 44-45, 49.

1970. Ornithology in laboratory and field. Fourth ed. Burgess Pub. Co., Minneap. 524 p.

Phillips, J. H.

1963. The pelagic distribution of the Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus). Ibis 105: 340-353.

Pinkowski, B. C.

1971. An analysis of banding-recovery data on Eastern Bluebirds banded in Michigan and three neighboring states. Jack-Pine Warbler 49(2): 33-50.

Pough, R. H.

1948. Out of the night sky. Audubon Mag. 50(6): 354-355.

Ralph, C. J.

1971. An age differential of migrants in coastal California. Condor 73: 243-246.

Raynor, G. S.

1956. Meteorological variables and the northward movement of nocturnal land bird migrants. Auk 73: 153-175.

Rense, W. A.

1946. Astronomy and ornithology. Pop. Astron. 54(2): 1-19.

Richardson, W. J.

1971. Spring migration and weather in eastern Canada: a radar study. Am. Birds 25(3): 684-690.

1972. Autumn migration and weather in eastern Canada: a radar study. Am. Birds 26: 10-17.

Richardson, W. J. and M. E. Haight.

1970. Migration departures from starling roosts. Can. J. Zool. 48(1): 31-39.

Robbins, C. S.

1949. Weather and bird migration. Wood Thrush 4(4): 130-144.

1956. Hawk watch. Atl. Nat. 11: 208-217.

Robbins, C., D. Bridge and R. Feller.

1959. Relative abundance of adult male Redstarts at an inland and a coastal locality during fall migration. Md. Birdlife 15(1): 23-25.

Rowan, W.

1925. Relation of light to bird migration and developmental changes. Nature (Lond.) 115: 494-495.

1926. On photoperiodism, reproductive periodicity, and the annual migrations of birds and certain fishes. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Proc. 38: 147-189.

1930a. Experiments in bird migration. II. Reversed migration. Nat. Acad. Sci. Proc. 16: 520-525.

1930b. The mechanism of bird migration. Sci. Prog. 25: 70-78.

1931. The riddle of migration. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 151 p.

Rudebeck, G.

1950. Studies on bird migration. Var. Fagelvarld, Supplementum I. 148 p.

Salomonsen, F.

1968. The moult migration. Wildfowl 19: 5-24.

Sauer, F.

1957. Die Sternenorientierung nachtlich ziehender Grasmucken (Sylvia attricapilla borin and curruca). Z. Tierpsych. 14: 29-70.

1958. Celestial navigation by birds. Sci. Am. 199(2): 42-47.

Sauer, E. G. F.

1961. Further studies on the stellar orientation of nocturnally migrating birds. Psychol. Forsch. 26(3): 224-244.

1963. Migration habits of Golden Plovers. Proc. XIII Int. Ornithol. Cong.: 454-467.

Sauer, E. G. F., and E. M. Sauer.

1960. Star navigation of nocturnal migrating birds. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. on Quant. Biol. 25: 463-473.

Schmidt-Koenig, K.

1963. Sun compass orientation of pigeons upon equatorial and transequatorial displacement. Biol. Bull. 124(3): 311-321.

1964. Sun compass orientation of pigeons upon displacement north of the Arctic circle. Biol. Bull. 127(1): 154-158.

Schnell, G. D.

1965. Recording the flight speed of birds by Doppler Radar. Living Bird 4: 79-87.

Schuz, E.

1963. On the North-Western migration divide of the White Stork. Proc. XIII Int. Ornithol. Cong. 475-480.

Serventy, D. L.

1953. Movements of pelagic sea-birds in the Indo-Pacific region. Proc. 7th Pacific Sci. Cong.: 4: 394-407.

1958. Recent studies on the Tasmanian mutton-bird. Aust. Mus. Mag. 12: 327-332.

Sheldon, W.

1965. Hawk migration in Michigan and the Straits of Mackinac. Jack-Pine Warbler 43(2): 79-83.

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