DEPARTMENT of ORNITHOLOGY & MAMMALOGY


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Dept. of Ornithology & Mammalogy

California Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3009
mammals@calacademy.org
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COLLECTIONS - databases now on-line

CONSERVATION | LEGACY | RESEARCH

   
   
   
   

CONSERVATION

___________.  Marine Mammals of the World.  FAO and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

1443-CX-8140-93-011, 236pp.

Ainley, D.G., R.E. Jones , Stallcup, D.J. Long, G.W. Page, L.T. Jones, L.E. Stenzel, R.L. Le Valley, and L.B. Spear.  Beached marine birds and mammals of the North American West Coast:  A revised guide to their census and identification, with supplemental keys to beached sea turtles and sharks.  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, San Francisco, CA.  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Report

Allen, S.G., M. Stephenson, R.W. Risebrough, L. Fancher, A. Shiller, and D. Smith.  Red-pelaged harbor seals of the San Francisco Bay Region.  Journal of Mammalogy 74:588-593

Araya, B., and S. Chester.  The Birds of Chile.  Latour, Santiago, Chile

Baptista, L.F.  A Letter from the Field:  the Birds of Socorro Island.  Pacific Discovery 46:44-47

Estes, James A., Brian B. Hatfield, Katherine Ralls, and Jack Ames.  Causes of mortality in California sea otters during periods of population growth and decline.  Marine Mammal Science 19:198-216

Garrett, K.L., and J.C. Wilson.  Report of the California Bird Records Committee: 2001 Records.  Western Birds 34:15-41

Howell, S.N.G., and S. J. Engel.  Seabird observations off western Mexico.  Western Birds 24:167-181

Howell, S.N.G., and T. Gardali.  Phenology, sex ratios, and population trends of SELASPHORUS hummingbirds in central coastal California.  Journal of Field Ornithology 74:17-25

Long, D.J.  Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras. Pp. 140-143 IN The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Encyclopedia Publishing Co., Danbury, CT

Miller, Craig R., and Lisette P. Waits.  The history of effective population size and genetic diversity in the Yellowstone grizzly (Ursus arctos): Implications for conservation.  PNAS 7:4334-4339

Patten, Michael A., Guy McCaskie, and Philip Unitt.  Birds of the Salton Sea, status, biogeography and ecology.  University of California Press

Phillips, A.R., and R. Phillips Farfan.  Distribution, migration, ecology, and relationships of the Five-striped Sparrow, Aimophila quinquestriataWestern Birds 24:65-72

Pyle, P., and S.N.G. Howell.  An Arctic Warbler in Baja California, Mexico.  Western Birds 24:53-56

Reinking, D. L., and S. N.G. Howell.  An Arctic Loon in California.  Western Birds 24:189-196

Snyder, Noel F.R., and Vicky J. Meretsky.  California Condors and DDE: a re-evaluation.  Ibis 145:136-151

Trail, P.W., and L.F. Baptista.  The impact of Brown-headed Cowbird parasitism on populations of the Nuttall's White-crowned Sparrow.  Conservation Biology 7: 309-315

Waser, Peter M., and James M. Ayers.  Microhabitat use and population decline in Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rats.  Journal of Mammalogy 84:1031-1043

   
   

LEGACY

Clementz, M.T., P. Holden, and P.L. Koch.  Are calcium isotopes a reliable monitor of tropic level in marine settings.    International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 13:29-36

Elder, William P. and John W. Miller.  Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results.  Geological Survey (U.S.) I 19.76:93-503

Howell, J.A.  National Park Service inventory and monitoring: a California park perspective.  George Wright Forum 10: 16-23

Howell, J.A.  Wildlife habitat inventory and monitoring.  Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California: a pilot study.  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley 195 p.

Howell, S.N.G., C. Corben, P. Pyle, and D.I. Rogers.  The first basic problem: a review of molt and plumage homologies.  Condor 105:635-653

Howell, S.N.G.  A taxonomic review of the Green-fronted Hummingbird.  Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 113:179-187

Navarro S., Adolfo G.; A. Townsend Peterson, and Alejandro Gordillo-Martinez.  Museums working together: the atlas of the birds of Mexico.  Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 123A:207-225

Roselaar, C.S.  An inventory of major European bird collections.  Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 123A:253-337

van Tuinen, M., Paton, T. A., Haddrath. O., and A. J. Baker.  Big Bang for Tertiary birds: a reply to Feduccia.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:442-443

   
   

RESEARCH

Baptista, L.F., D.A. Bell, and P.W. Trail.  Song learning and production in the White-crowned Sparrow: parallels with sexual imprinting.  Netherlands Journal of Zoology  (Proceedings international conference on song learning and imprinting: an inquiry into mechanisms of behavioural development.  (Haren: University of Groningen, 1992); ten Cate; Slater; Kruijt, Eds.) 43: 17-33

Baptista, L.F., P.W. Trail, B.B. DeWolfe, and M.L. Morton.  Singing and its functions in female White-crowned Sparrows.  Animal Behaviour 46: 511-524

Baptista, L.F.  El estudio de la variacion geografica usando vocalizaciones y las bibliotecas de sonidos de aves neotropicales.  pp. 15-30 In P. Escalante-Pliego (Ed.) Proceedings of IV International Congress of Neotropical Birds Curacion moderna de colecciones ornitologicas. (Quito, Ecuador, 1991). American Ornithologists Union, Washington, DC.

Birkhead, T.R., and A.P. Moller.  Why do male birds stop copulating while their partners are still fertile.    Animal Behaviour 45:105-118

Clement, P.  Finches & Sparrows, An Identification Guide.  Christopher Helm

Conroy, C.J., and M. van Tuinen.  Extracting time from phylogenies: positive interplay between fossil and  genetic data.  Journal of Mammalogy 84: 444-455

Dunning, Jr., J.B.  CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses.  CRC Press, Inc.

England, A.S., and W.F. Laudenslayer, Jr.  Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendireiThe Birds of North America No. 71

Holekamp, K.E., and L. Smale.  Ontogeny of dominance in free-living spotted hyaenas: juvenile rank relations with other immature individuals.  Animal Behaviour 46:451-466

Howell, S.N.G.  Shades of gray: a point of reference for gull identification.  Birding 35:32-37

Howell, S.N.G.  Taxonomy and distribution of the hummingbird genus Chlorostilbon in Mexico and northern Central America.  Euphonia 2:25-37

Long, M.C.  Anna's Hummingbird with Hymenoptera impaled on bills.  Western Birds 24:267-269

Martin, L.F., and E.H. Bucher.  Natal dispersal and first breeding age in Monk Parakeets.  Auk 110:930-933

Nelson, D.A., and P. Marler.  Innate recognition of song in White-crowned Sparrows: a role in selective vocal learning.    Animal Behaviour 46:806-808

O'Loghlen, A.L., and S.I. Rothstein.  An extreme example of delayed vocal development: song learning in a population of wild Brown-headed Cowbirds.  Animal Behaviour 46:293-304

Outlaw, D.C., G. Voelker, B. Mila, and D.J. Girman.  Evolution of long-distance migration in and historical biogeography of Catharus thrushes: A molecular phylogenetic approach.  Auk 120:299-310

Slabbekoorn, H., and M. Peet.  Ecology: Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise.  Nature 424:267

van Tuinen, M., and E.A. Hadly.  Tracking avian abundance through the medieval warm period and little ice age.  XVI INQUA Congress. Shaping the Earth: a Quarternary perspective

Webster,  J.D.  The manubrium-sternum bridge in songbirds (Oscines).  Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 191, 299-308.

Webster, J.D.  Skeletal characters and the genera of blackbirds (Icteridae).  Condor 105:239-257

Webster, W.D.  Systematics and Evolution of Bats of the genus GlossophagaSpecial Publications the Museum Texas Tech University

Wogan, G.O.U., H. Win, T. Thin, K.S. Lwin, A.K. Shein, S.W. Kyi, and H. Tun.  A new species of BUFO (Anura: Bufonidae) from Myanmar (Burma), and Redescription of the Little-known Species BUFO STUARTI Smith 1929.  Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 54(7):141-153

Worthy, G., D. Casper, H. Rhinehart, and M. Moser.  First record of a live-stranded pan-tropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata graffmani) in Central California, USA.  Marine Mammal Science 9:316-319