Scharf, William C., Kren, Josef, Johnsgard, Paul A., Brown, Linda R.
Data are presented on nearly 18,000 bird-captures involving 125 species banded between 1992 and 2005 at two Platte Valley study areas in central and western Nebraska. Weight data for more than 1...
Grouse and Quails of North America -- Frontmatter (2008)
Table of Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction
1 Evolution and Taxonomy (2008)
The modern array of grouse-, quail-, and partridge-like species occurring in North America is the result of three processes: evolution and speciation within this continent, range expansion or...
2 Physical Characteristics (2008)
All of the grouse, quails, and introduced partridges of North America share a number of anatomical traits which provide the basis for their common classification within the order Galliformes. Among...
An understanding of the molts and plumages of the quails and grouse is of great importance to the applied biologist, for they provide clues that are valuable for determining age and sex of individual...
The study of hybridization between species, under either natural or artificial conditions, provides information of value for a variety of reasons. In general, it may be expected that the incidence of...
The reproductive potentiaI of animal species is a compound result of numerous behavioral and physiological characteristics, most of which can be considered species-typical. These include such things...
6 Population Ecology and Dynamics (2008)
Like other animals, grouse and quail exist as natural populations dependent upon particular habitats and vary in population density between the absolute minimum populations that have permitted past...
7 Social Behavior and Vocalizations (2008)
One of the most complex and fascinating aspects of grouse and quail biology is their social behavior, particularly that related to reproduction. Natural selection in the quail group has seemingly...
8 Aviculture and Propagation (2008)
The rearing of grouse and quail for enjoyment, profit, or stocking in the wild has been an important aspect of grouse and quail biology. The very presence of chukar and gray partridges in North...
9 Hunting, Recreation, and Conservation (2008)
There can be little doubt that the grouse and quail provide the most important and most popular targets for more than ten million small-game hunters every year in North America (National survey,...
Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte) 1827 Other vernacular names: Sage hen, spiny-tailed pheasant, sage cock, sage chicken Range: From central Washington, southern Idaho, Montana, southeastern...
Dendragapus obscurus (Say) 1823 Other vernacular names: dusky grouse, fool hen, gray grouse, hooter, mountain grouse, pine grouse, pine hen, Richardson grouse, sooty grouse. Range: From southeastern...
Dendragapus canadensis (Linnaeus) 1758 [also Canachites canadensis] Other vernacular names: Black partridge, Canada grouse, cedar partridge, fool-hen, Franklin grouse, heath hen, mountain grouse,...
Lagopus lagopus (Linnaeus) 1758 Other vernacular names: Alaska ptarmigan, Alexander ptarmigan, Allen ptarmigan, Arctic grouse, red grouse (Scotland form), Scottish grouse, white grouse, white-shafted...
Lagopus mutus (Montin) 1776 Other vernacular names: Arctic grouse, barren-ground bird, Chamberlain ptarmigan, Dixon ptarmigan, Nelson ptarmigan, Reinhardt ptarmigan, rocker (in Newfoundland), snow...
15 White-tailed Ptarmigan (2008)
Lagopus leucurus (Richardson) 1831 Other vernacular names: Snow grouse, snow partridge Range: From central Alaska, northern Yukon, and southwestern Mackenzie south to the Kenai Peninsula, Vancouver...
Bonasa umbellus ( Linnaeus) 1776 Other vernacular names: birch partridge, drummer, drumming grouse, long-tailed grouse, mountain pheasant, partridge, pine hen, pheasant, tippet, white-flesher, willow...
Tympanuchus cupido ( Linnaeus) 1758 Other vernacular names: prairie chicken, prairie cock, prairie grouse, prairie hen SUBSPECIES T. c. cupido (Linnaeus): Heath hen or eastern pinnated grouse....
Tympanuchus phasianellus (Linnaeus) 1858 Other vernacular names: Brush grouse, pintail grouse, prairie grouse, prairie pheasant, sharptail, speckle-belly, spike-tail, spring-tail, whitebelly,...
Includes: Long-tailed Tree Quail, Dendrortyx macroura (Jardine & Selby) 1828 Bearded Tree Quail, Dendrortyx barbatus (Gould) 1846 Buffy-crowned Tree Quail, Dendrortyx leucophrys (Gould) 1844
Philortyx fasciatus ( Gould) 1844 Other vernacular names: Banded quail, Chorrunda, Codorniz listada. Range: Resident in semiarid tropical scrub of the Pacific slope from southwestern Jalisco to...
Oreortyx pictus (Douglas) 1829 Other vernacular names: Cordoniz de Montana, mountain partridge, painted quail, plumed quail, San Pedro quail. Range: Resident in the western United States from...
Callipepla squamata (Vigors) 1830 Other vernacular names: Blue racer quail, blue quail, Cordorniz Azul, Codorniz Escamosa, cottontop quail, Mexican quail, scaled partridge, top-knot quail, Zollin....
Callipepla douglasii (Vigors) 1829 Other vernacular names: Benson quail, Codorniz Gris, crested quail, Douglas quail, Lesson quail, Yaqui quail. Range: Western Mexico from Sonora and Chihuahua to...
Callipepla gambelii (Gambel) 1843 Other vernacular names: Arizona quail, Codorniz de Gambel, desert quail, Olanthe quail. Range: From southern Nevada, southern Utah, and western Colorado south to...
Callipepla californica (Shaw) 1798 Other vernacular names: California partridge, Catalina quail, Codorniz Californiana, crested quail, San Lucas quail, San Quintin quail, topknot quail, valley quail...
Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus) 1758 Other vernacular names: American colin, Codorniz Común, Cuiche Común, partridge, quail Range: Virtually all of the eastern United States north to southern...
27 Black-throated Bobwhite (2008)
Colinus nigrogularis (Gould) 1843 Other vernacular names: Black-throated quail, Codorniz Garganta Negra, Cuiche Yucateco, Yucatán bobwhite. Range: The Yucatán peninsula, the Lake Petén...
Odontophorus guttatus (Gould) 1838 Other vernacular names: Bolonchaco, spotted partridge, thick-billed wood quail Range: Forested parts of the subtropical zone of southeastern Mexico south through...
Dactylortyx thoracicus ( Gambel) 1848 Other vernacular names: Chiviscoyo, Cinco Real, Codorniz, Chifladora, long-clawed quail, long-toed partridge, long-toed quail Range: Mountainous areas from...
Cyrtonyx montezumae (Vigors) 1830 Other vernacular names: Black quail, Codorniz Encinera, Codorniz Pinta, crazy quail, fool quail, massena quail, Mearns quail, Montezuma quail, painted quail, squat...
Perdix perdix (Linnaeus) 1758 Other vernacular names: Bohemian partridge, English partridge, European partridge, Hungarian partridge, Hun, Hunkie Range: Native to Europe and Asia but introduced into...
Alectoris chukar (Gray) 1830 Alectoris graeca (Meisner) Other vernacular names: Chukor, Indian hill partridge, rock partridge (refers to graeca only). Range: Native to Eurasia, from France through...
The three following keys can be used to identify unfamiliar species of North American grouse or quails that may be examined in the hand. Unless one is certain that the bird represents either a grouse...
From: Alectoris--from Latin alector (Greek alectryon): cock ... through: Tympanuchus--from Greek tympanon: a drum
Index of vernacular and scientific names English vernacular names indexed here are for the most part those used in this book for species or larger groupings. Vernacular names for subspecies as well...
32-35. Sage Grouse 36-39. Blue Grouse 40-43. Spruce Grouse 44-46. Willow Ptarmigan 47-49. Rock Ptarmigan 50-51. White-tailed Ptarmigan 52-54. Ruffed Grouse 55-58. Pinnated Grouse 59-60. Sharp-tailed...
Black & White Photographs (2008)
1-4. Sage Grouse 5-12. Blue Grouse 13-17. Spruce Grouse 18-22. Willow Ptarmigan 23-26. Rock Ptarmigan 27-31. White-tailed Ptarmigan 62-65. Ruffed Grouse 66-69. Sharp-tailed Grouse 70-79. Pinnated...
Grouse and Quails of North America (2008)
Nearly all of the gallinaceous birds that are native to North America are included in two taxonomic groups, the grouse-like species of the subfamily Tetraoninae, and the quail-like species of the...
The Birds of Nebraska, Revised edition 2007 (2007)
Persons living in Nebraska often feel that they are living in a cultural wasteland; its citizenry preoccupied with violent sports such as hunting and football. Yet many are unaware that they are...
A Guide to the Tallgrass Prairies of Eastern Nebraska and Adjacent States (2007)
Contents Part 1: Ecology of the Tallgrass Prairie Part 2: Plants of the Tallgrass Prairies: Checklist of Prairie & Grassland Plants of Nebraska; Relative Frequencies of Grasses, Spring Creek and...
A Guide to the Natural History of the Central Platte Valley of Nebraska (2007)
This book has been written in the hope that visitors to the Platte Valley may gain a greater appreciation for it through learning some of its animals and plants in addition to the Platte Valley's...
Paul Johnsgard: Comprehensive Vita and Bibliography (2005)
A current curriculum vitae and comprehensive bibliography for Paul A. Johnsgard, Foundation Regents Professor Emeritus at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Dr. Johnsgard has been the author of (at...
Two hundred years ago this May, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, together with the three dozen army volunteers and hired hunter-interpreters who made up the Corps of Discovery, departed their...
Sibley's New Twins: Book Review (2003)
Review of The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America and The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America by David Allen Sibley (Knopf, 2003, $19.95 each). Sibley has taken up...
Nebraska's Sandhill Crane Populations, Past, Present and Future (2002)
Although the spring concentrations of Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska's Platte Valley are now an avian phenomenon known nationwide, a general appreciation and inventory of this unique concentration of...
The History of Life in Nebraska: A Time-Travel Adventure (2001)
It is difficult for humans, whose lives are measured in years and decades, to fathom the age of the Earth, whose history is patiently but inexorably written on thin pages of landscape, each lasting...
Comments on Nebraska's Falconiform and Strigiform bird fauna (2001)
Owing to a lack of long-term survey data, determining whether Nebraska's raptor numbers are stable, increasing, or decreasing is difficult. Unlike our relatively well-monitored gamebirds, no regular...
Ecogeographic Aspects of Greater Prairie-chicken Leks in Southeastern Nebraska (2000)
An analysis of the distribution of 104 Greater Prairie-chicken leks in Pawnee and Johnson counties indicates that the birds favor using those mile-square sections having no more than two dwellings...
Historic Birds of Lincoln's Salt Basin Wetlands and Nine-mile Prairie (2000)
The changes that have occurred in the bird life of the Lincoln area during the past century must certainly be great, but we have little evidence to document this point. There is, however, an...
A Century of Breeding Birds in Nebraska (2000)
Canterbury, Jackie, Johnsgard, Paul A.
With the imminent publication of the Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas and the turning of a new millennium, it is perhaps an appropriate time to survey the state of breeding birds in Nebraska. Wayne...
A Century of Ornithology in Nebraska: A Personal View (2000)
The Nebraska Ornithologists' Union celebrated its centennial year during 1999. During more than 65 years it has published a quarterly journal, the Nebraska Bird Review, and has also published several...
The Ultraviolet Birds of Nebraska (1999)
Our human eyesight does not allow us to perceive the world as most birds do, and that they at times might be responding to visual clues literally beyond our ken. For example, are the ultraviolet...
Marvelous, Mystical, Tropical Trogons (1999)
Johnsgard, Paul A., Schmitt, John
f all the groups of birds in the world, few fit our ideas of "tropical forest birds" as well as the trogons and quetzals. They are found almost entirely between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn,...
The Age of Birds in Nebraska (1999)
If each mile of highway I-80 in Nebraska represented a million years of natural history, then the 450 miles from the 60th St. on-ramp in Omaha to the westernmost exit at the Wyoming border would...
Endemicity and Regional Biodiversity in Nebraska's Breeding Avifauna (1998)
I estimate that 215 bird species currently breed or have previously bred in Nebraska. This number compares with a total of 330 spe¬cies that breed or have bred in the Great Plains region south of...
A Half-Century of Winter Bird Surveys at Lincoln and Scottsbluff, Nebraska (1998)
Since 1900, the National Audubon Society has sponsored annual "Christmas bird counts" during the two-week period encompassing Christmas; and as a result, long-term data on winter bird populations...
In Memorium: Charles G. Sibley (1998)
Dr. Charles Sibley, who passed away in April 1998, is recalled and appreciated by a former student, lab assistant, co-worker, and colleague, who first encountered him at Cornell University in 1955,...
Brown, Charles R., Brown, Mary Bomberger, Johnsgard, Paul A., Kren, Josef, Scharf, William C.
The North Platte River valley (elev. ca 3300 ft/990 m) in Garden and Keith counties, Nebraska, has an avifauna of 305 species, the richest known north of Texas in the Great Plains. More than 25 years...
Daffy but Dapper: A Serious Approach to the Comical-Looking Ruddy Duck (1995)
The punk rock star of waterfowl, a male Ruddy Duck displays an assortment of odd attributes, including a blue bill, stiff, spiky tail, and horns on its head. The instinctive attraction and...
Beguiled by Birds: A Profile of Paul Johnsgard (1994)
Hayward, James L., Johnsgard, Paul A.
"I spent the first thirty years of my life learning to be a scientist, and the next twenty-five years of my life trying to become a humanist and an artist." Paul Johnsgard immerses himself in several...
Nebraska Fauna: American White Pelican (1991)
Few birds are more familiar to the average person than are white pelicans, but few Nebraskans also realize that thousands of these birds migrate through the state every year, and hundreds stop over...
COMMON GOLDENEYE: Notes on Nebraska Fauna (1988)
0NE OF THE rewards for braving the remnants of a Nebraska winter by venturing out to newly thawed reservoirs, lakes and sandpits is the prospect of seeing a flock of common goldeneyes. Hard on the...
Diving Birds of North America [complete book] (1987)
Considering the great nostalgic attraction of such birds as the common loon for people who have lived at least part of their lives around the lakes of Canada and the northern United States, and given...
Diving Birds of North America: Frontmatter (1987)
Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Preface
Diving Birds of North America: 1 General Attributes and Evolutionary Relationships (1987)
Loons, grebes, and auks comprise a rather large number of species of aquatic diving birds that are fairly unfamiliar to most people, inasmuch as they tend to spend much of their time well away from...
Diving Birds of North America: 2 Comparative Distributions and Structural Adaptations (1987)
The geographic distributions of the loons, auks, and grebes are primarily reflections of the evolutionary histories of each of the groups, past climatic and geologic phenomena, and present-day...
Diving Birds of North America: 3 Comparative Egocentric and Locomotory Behaviors (1987)
As used here, "egocentric behavior" means those categories of individual survival and maintenance behaviors that are exclusive of such social interactions as aggressive, sexual, and parental...
Diving Birds of North America: 4 Comparative Diets and Foraging Ecologies (1987)
Auks, loons, and grebes are birds whose anatomies and behaviors have been sharply influenced by their foraging niche adaptations. In each species these have evolved through natural selection over...
Diving Birds of North America: 5 Comparative Pair-Forming and Copulatory Behaviors (1987)
All species of loons, grebes, and auks are monogamous, with adults forming strong pair bonds that are established or reestablished each year, probably during the spring prenesting period. The extent...
Diving Birds of North America: 6 Comparative Life Histories and Reproductive Success Rates (1987)
It is now well recognized that, like behavior, a species' life history characteristics, such as age at sexual maturity, clutch sizes, and incubation, brooding, and fledging patterns, are evolved...
Diving Birds of North America: Species Accounts -- Loons (Gaviidae) (1987)
Loons are large diving birds having long, straight, and acutely pointed bills, with feathers covering the lores (region between eye and bill) and extending to the linear nostrils. There are 10...
Diving Birds of North America: Species Accounts -- Grebes (Podicipedidae) (1987)
Grebes are small to medium-sized diving birds having bills that vary from short and rather blunt tipped to long and acutely pointed, with bare lores and head feathers not extending to the linear or...
Diving Birds of North America: Species Accounts -- Auks (Alcidae) (1987)
Auks are small to medium-sized diving birds having bills that are variably pointed and compressed but never acuminate and are sometimes covered with colorful horny sheaths in breeding adults....
Diving Birds of North America: Appendices (1987)
Sources of Scientific and Vernacular Names Keys to Identification of Loons, Grebes, and Auks Key to Families of Loons, Grebes, and Auks Key to Species of North American Loons Key to Species of North...
Diving Birds of North America: Literature Cited (1987)
14 pages, with more than 500 references.
Diving Birds of North America: Index (1987)
This index is limited to the English vernacular and Latin names of species and subspecies of loons, grebes, and auks discussed individually in this book. Complete indexing is confined to entries for...
Diving Birds of North America: Color Plates (1987)
1. Arctic loon, adult in breeding plumage. Photo by author. 2. Red-throated loon, nesting adult. Photo by Kenneth W. Fink. 3. Yellow-billed loon, adult in breeding plumage. Photo by Kenneth W. Fink....
In Nebraska, the species of hummingbird most likely to be seen, and indeed the only one likely to be seen in the eastern half of the state, is the ruby-throated hummingbird. This is the most widely...
Cranes of the World [complete work] (1983)
Cranes are a group of birds that can lift the human spirit as few other wild animals can do; their great size, marvelous soaring abilities, humanoid traits such as "dancing," and penetrating voices,...
Cranes of the World: Australian Crane (Grus rubicundus) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: Brolga, Native companion (Australia); Grue d'Australie (French); Australischer Kranich (German); Goshu zuru (Japanese); Australiyka zhuravl (Russian); Grulla Australiana...
Cranes of the World: 6. Aviculture and Hybridization (1983)
The keeping of cranes in captivity, either as pets or as animals to be fattened for the pot, is evidently a very old practice. Captive cranes are depicted on the walls of the Temple of Deir-el-Barari...
Cranes of the World: Black and White Plates (1983)
Black and white Photographs 1. West African crowned crane, adult. Photo by L. H. Walkinshaw. 2. South African crowned crane, adult at nest. Photo by W. Tarboton. 3. South African crowned crane, adult...
Cranes of the World: Blue-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: None in general English use; Grue á cour noir (French); Schwarzhals Kranich (German); Cheniozheuleu zhuravl (Russian); Grulla de cue110 negro (Spanish). Range: Breeds from...
Cranes of the World: Black-necked Crane (Grus nigricollis) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: None in general English use; Grue á cour noir (French); Schwarzhals Kranich (German); Cheniozheuleu zhuravl (Russian); Grulla de cue110 negro (Spanish). Range: Breeds from...
Cranes of the World: Blue Crane (Anthropoides paradises) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: Stanley crane; Bloukraan (Afrikaan); Grue bleue (French); Paradieskranich (German); Hagoromo zuru (Japanese); Chetyrekhkrydy zhuravl (Russian); Grulla azul (Spanish); Groote...
Cranes of the World: 1. Classification and Evolution (1983)
Cranes and their relatives the limpkins and trumpeters are fairly closely related members of the order of birds (Gruiformes) that also includes rails, gallinules, coots, and other marsh-adapted...
Cranes of the World: Color Plates (1983)
Color photographs: 1. South African crowned crane, adult. Photo by K. B. Newman. 2. West African crowned crane, adults. Photo by author. 3. South African crowned crane, adult at nest. Photo by W. R....
Cranes of the World: 5. Comparative Reproductive Biology (1983)
The reproductive biologies of cranes are surprisingly similar. All crane species are strictly monogamous, have long pair bonds and a prolonged period of juvenile dependency, and are highly...
Cranes of the World: 0. Contents -- Foreword -- Preface (1983)
I. COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY OF CRANES 1. Classification and Evolution / 3 2. Individualistic and Social Behavior / 11 3. Vocalizations / 254. Ecology and Population Dynamics / 35 5. Comparative...
Cranes of the World: 8. Cranes in Myth and Legend (1983)
Wherever cranes occur in the world, their stature, intelligence, wariness, and sociality have captured the human imagination and have given rise to a variety of legends, myths, and folktales. Among...
Cranes of the World: Crowned Crane (Balearica pauonina) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: Blue-necked or gray crowned crane (regulorum and gibbericeps), Black-necked or dark crowned crane (pavonina and ceciliae); Ma-hem (Afrikaan); Grue couronnee, Grue ronnee du...
Cranes of the World: Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: None in General English use; Shuai-yu-hao (Chinese); Grue demoisella, Demoiselle de Numidae (French); Jungfernkranich (German); Karkarra (Hindi); Aneha-zuru (Japanese);...
Cranes of the World: 4. Ecology and Population Dynamics (1983)
Like other animals, cranes exist as natural populations that are dependent upon particular environmental conditions and that vary in population density between the absolute minimum numbers that have...
Cranes of the World: 7. Endangered Species and Conservation (1983)
Few families of birds, other than some associated with small island archipelagos, have such a large proportion of their species in danger of extinction as does the crane family. Of the 14 extant...
Cranes of the World: Epilogue (1983)
And as wee see strange Crane are won't to doe First stalke a while ere they their wings can finde, Then soare from ground not past a yard or two, Till in their wings they gathered have the winde; At...
Cranes of the World: Eurasian Crane (Grus grus) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: Common crane, Crane; Huiho (Chinese); Grue cendree (French); Kranich (German); Kuro-zuru, Kurotsuru (Japanese); Seryi zhuravl (Russian); Grulla comun (Spanish). Range: Breeds...
Cranes of the World: Hooded Crane (Grus monachus) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: None in general English use; Huan-has (Chinese); Grue-moine (French); Monchskranich (German); Nabe-zuru (Japanese); Chernyi zhuravl (Russian); Grulla capachina (Spanish)....
Cranes of the World: Index (1983)
This index is limited to the English vernacular and Latin names of crane species and subspecies, including fossil terms. Complete indexing is limited to entries for the English vernacular names of...
Cranes of the World: 2. Individualistic and Social Behavior (1983)
Like all higher organisms, cranes perform a variety of behavior patterns throughout their lives that have evolved to fulfill diverse functions. Much of their time is spent in self-directed activities...
Cranes of the World: Japanese Crane (Grus japonensis) (1983)
Other Vernacular Names: Manchurian crane, Redcrowned crane; Tan-ting ho, Hsien-ho (Chinese); Grue de Mandchourie (French); Mandschuren- Kranich (German): Tancho, Tozuro (Japanese); Manshuskiy...
Cranes of the World: KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF CRANES OF THE WORLD (1983)
Key to the Families of Gruoidea Key to Cranes of the World