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American Institute of Biological Sciences
- 1988 Bioscience, Vol. 38, No. 4. April issue
devoted to articles on conservation of Hawaii's endangered species,
particularly the avifauna.
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American Ornithologists' Union and Academy
of Natural Sciences, Alan Poole, Managing Editor
- 1992 The Birds of North America. Issued as
separate species accounts, published bimonthly; 32 in first volume
of projected 18 vol. series. (Most thorough up to date information
on species including conservation management; major bibliography
of references.)
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Askins, R.A.
- 2000 Restoring North America's Birds: Lessons from
Landscape Ecology. 2nd edition. Yale University Press,
New Haven. 352 pp. (Comprehensive but very readable review on
conservation and restoration of N. American birds.)
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Banko, W.E.
- 1980 The Trumpeter Swan: its history, habits and populations
in the United States. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
214 pp.
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Beissinger, S.R., and N. Snyder (Editors)
- 1992 New World Parrots in Crisis- Solution from Conservation
Biology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
(Based on the symposium, The Conservation Crisis of New World
Parrots held in 1990; contains 11 chapters that include causes,
pressures, aviculturalists' role, captive breeding, reintroduction,
pet trade, solutions.)
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Berger, A.J.
- l981 Hawaiian Birdlife. 2nd edition. University Press
of Hawaii, Honolulu. 260 pp. (Chapters on the natural history
of indigenous, endemic, introduced, and migratory species.)
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Bosworth, F.
- l955 The Last of the Curlews. Dodd, Mead and Co., New
York. l28 pp. (Narrative of the life history of the Eskimo Curlew.)
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Brown, J.E.
- 1983 The Return of the Brown Pelican. Louisiana State
University Press, Baton Rouge. 118 pp.
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Butler, D. and D. Merton
- 1992 The Black Robin. Saving the World's
Most Endangered Bird. Oxford University Press, New Zealand.
294 pp. (Readable detailed account of the saving of the Chatham
Island Black Robin.)
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Cade, T.
- 1982 The Falcons of the World. Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, New York. (A review of the genera with descriptions
of many species including their habitat, reproduction, population
status and conservation.)
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Cade, T., J. Enderson, C. Thelander,
and C. White
- 1988 Peregrine Falcon Populations: Their Management
and Recovery. Peregrine Fund Inc., Boise, Idaho. 949 pp.(20th
Anniversary International Conference on peregrine falcon; includes
status, migration and banding, reintroduction efforts and relationships
with man.)
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Cohn, J. P.
- 1999 Saving the California Condor. BioScience,
November 1999, vol. 49, No. 11, pp. 864-868.
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Collar, N.J., and S.N. Stuart
- 1985 Threatened Birds of Africa and Related Islands. TheICBP/IUCN
Red Data Book, Part 1. 3rd Edition. Cambridge, England. 761
pp.
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Collar, N.J., M.J. Crosby, and A.J.
Stattersfield
- 1994 Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds.
Revised 1988 Edition. Birdlife International and the Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, DC (1200 birds identified with
brief details on distribution, habitat, population numbers and
trends.)
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Collar, N.J., L.P. Gonzaga, N. Krabbe
et al
- 2000 Threatened Birds of the Americas. The ICBP/IUCN
Red Data Book, Part 2. 3rd Edition. International Council for
Bird Preservation, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
DC 1,150 pp.
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Croxall, J.P.
- 1991 Seabird - Status and Conservation: A Supplement.
ICBP Technical Publication No. 11, Cambridge, England.
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Croxall, J.P., P.G.H. Evans, and R.W.
Shreiber (Editors)
- 1984 Status and Conservation of the World's Seabirds. ICBP
Technical Publication No. 2. ICBP, Cambridge, England. 778 pp.
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Del Hoyok J., A. Elliott,
J. Sargatal et al (Editors)
- 1992 on Handbook of the Birds of the World.5
vols. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona (Excellent
compendium: a general account of families plus species accounts
including status and conservation.)
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Deppe, H.
- l97l The Passenger Pigeon. Leaflet 7l-8. Available
from the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History,
Department of Systematic Biology. 6 pp.
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Diamond, A.W. (Editor)
- 1987 Studies of Mascarene Island Birds. Cambridge University
Press, New York. 458 pp. (Ecological history of the islands;
history of the Dodo; review of the biology and conservation
of the island's endangered land birds.)
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Diamond, A.W., and T.E. Lovejoy (Editors)
- 1985 Conservation of Tropical Forest Birds. ICBP Technical
Publication No. 4. ICBP, Cambridge, England. 318 pp.
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Diamond, A., R. Schrieber, W. Cronkite,
and R. Peterson
- 1989 Save the Birds. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston,
Massachusetts. 383 pp.
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Doughty, R.W.
- 1990 Return of the Whooping Crane. University of Texas
Press, Austin. 192 pp.
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Eckert, A.W.
- l963 The Great Auk. Little Brown, Boston. 202 pp.,
map.(Fiction.)
- l965 The Silent Sky; the Incredible Extinction of the Passenger
Pigeon. Little Brown, Boston. 243 pp., illus. (Popular account.)
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Ehrlich, P.R., D.S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye
- 1992 Birds in Jeopardy. Stanford University Press,
California. (Rare and extinct birds.)
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Emslie, S.D.
- 1986 Canyon Echos of the Condor. Natural History,
Vol.95, No. 4, pp. 10-14.
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Ford, H.A.
- 1989 Ecology of Birds. An Australian perspective. Surrey
Beatty & Sons Pty Limited, Australia. 288 pp. (Includes
sections on ecology of rare, endangered and extinct birds, habitat
destruction and modification in Australia.)
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Fuller, E.
- 2001 Extinct Birds. Revised edition.
Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, New York. 398 pp. (Birds
that have vanished since 1600; many excellent paintings and
illustrations)
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Garnett, S. (Editor)
- 1992 Threatened and Extinct Birds of Australia.
Report Number 82. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and
Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Victoria. 212
pp. (Species accounts include a summary, distribution, population,
habitat and threats, conservation measures taken and proposed,
and a reference list.)
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Gerrard, J.M. and G.R. Bortolotti
- 1988 The Bald Eagle. Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness
Monarch. Smithsonian Nature Book, Smithsonian Institution
Press, Washington, DC 224 pp. (A personal account of experiences
in the field.)
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Gollop, J.B., T.W. Barry, and E.H. Iversen
- 1986 Eskimo Curlew. A Vanishing Species? Saskatchewan
Natural History Society Special Publication No. 17. Saskatchewan,
Canada. 160 pp. (For those interested in shore birds and their
conservation; includes a 31 page bibliography.)
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Goodloe, R.
- 1985 Special Report: California Condor. Endangered
Species Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 5-6. (Building a captive
breeding flock.)
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Goriup, P.D. (Editor)
- 1988 Ecology and Conservation of Grassland Birds. ICBP
Technical Publication No. 7. International Council for Bird
Preservation (ICBP), Cambridge, England. 252 pp.
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Greenberg, R.
- 1995 Bring Back the Birds: What you
can do to save threatened species. Stackpole Books,
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Greenway, J.C.
- l967 Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. 2nd
revised edition. Dover Publications, New York. 520 pp. (Comprehensive
study on extinct and threatened birds. Some content out-dated;
see King citation).
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Hackisuka, M.
- l953 The Dodo and Kindred Birds or the Extinct Birds of
the Mascarene Islands. H.F. and G. Witherby Ltd., London.
250 pp., maps, color plates.
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Halliday, T.
- l978 Vanishing Birds. Their Natural History and Conservation.
Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York. 296 pp., illus., color
plates.
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Hamel, P.B.
- 1986 Bachman's Warbler, a Species in Peril. Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, DC. 109 pp.
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Harris, J.T.
- l979 The Peregrine Falcon in Greenland. (Observing
an Endangered Species.) University of Missouri Press, Columbia
and London. 255 pp.
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Hudson, R. (Editor)
- l975 Threatened Birds of Europe. Macmillan London Ltd.
and the Council of Europe. l28 pp., color photographs. (59 case
histories that include background, European status and possible
reasons for decline.)
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Jackson, J.A.
- 1981 An Annotated Bibliography of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker,
Picoides borealis. Savannah River National Environmental
Research Park, P.O. Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29801. 290 pp. (1800
citations)
- 1987 The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker. Pp 479-493 In Audubon
Wildlife Report 1987. The National Audubon Society, New York.
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Jackson, J.A. (Editor)
- 1989 Bird Conservation 3. University of Wisconsin Press
and ICBP, Madison. (Bird conservation problems in relation to
forest management practices.)
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Johnsgard, P.A.
- 1982 Whooper Recount. Natural History,
Vol. 91, No. 2, February 1982, pp. 71-75.
- 1999 The Pheasants of the World. Biology
and Natural History. Second Edition. Smithsonian Institution
Press, Washington, DC 448 pp. (Biology and conservation status
of wild pheasant populations; new information on conservation
outlook for each species; includes range maps and id keys.)
- 2001 Hawks, Eagles, & Falcons of North
America. Biology and Natural History. Paperback edition,
Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC. 464 pp. Focuses on conservation)
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Johnson, W.W.
- 1983 California Condor: Embroiled in a Flap Not of its Making.
Smithsonian , Vol. No. 9, December 1983,
pp.72-83. (Details efforts to save the bird and recent results
from the captive breeding program.)
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Kaufmann, J. and H. Meng
- l975 Falcons Return. William Morrow and Co., New York.l28
pp., black and white photographs. (Treats biology, history and
practice of falconry, and most important section traces Meng's
work in breeding the birds in captivity for introduction back
into the wild.)
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Kear, J. and A.J. Berger
- l980 The Hawaiian Goose. Buteo Books, Vermillion, South
Dakota. l54 pp. (Story of their reestablishment in Hawaii.)
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Keast, A. and E. Morton (Editors)
- 1980 Migrant Birds in the Neotropics: Ecology, Behavior,
Distribution, and Conservation: Proceedings of a Symposium
held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological
Park, Smithsonian Institution, October 27-29, 1977. Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, DC.
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King, W.B. (Compiler)
- l98l Endangered Birds of the World. ICBP Bird Red Data
Book. Smithsonian Institution Press and International Council
for Bird Preservation, Washington, DC (Reprinted, revised, and
updated text of Vol. II Aves in the Red Data Book series of
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources (IUCN) in paperbound version. Original in loose-leaf
format.)
- l98l The World's Rarest Birds. International Wildlife,
Vol. ll, No. 5, September/October l98l, pp. l2-l9. (Status and
major causes of decline of 37 endangered species; many illustrations.)
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Kulhavy, D.L., R.G. Hooper, and R. Costa
- 1995 Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Recovery,
Ecology and Management. (From the Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Symposium 1993, North Charleston, S.C.) Center for Applied Studies,
College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches,
TX
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Langier, L.
- 1992 Wise as an Owl: a Resource and Teacher's Guide to
Birds of Prey. The Peregrine Fund, Inc. Boise, Idaho. 76
pp. (Information package deals with raptors, conservation and
environmental ethics. Material is directed toward older students.)
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Lever, C.
- 1987 Naturalized Birds of the World. Longman Scientific
& Technical, New York. 615 pp. (Introduced birds: where,
when, why, and by whom and their effect on native biota.)
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Low, R.
- 1994 Endangered Parrots. 2nd edition
revised. Sterling Pub., New York. 191 pp.
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Mcfarlane, R.W.
- 1992 A Stillness in the Pines. The Ecology of the Red-Cockaded
Woodpecker. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. 270 pp.
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McNulty, F.
- l966 The Whooping Crane. E.P. Dutton and Co., New York.
l90 pp., l9 photos.
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Milberg, P., and T. Tyrberg
- 1993 Naive Birds and Noble Savages- a Review
of Man-caused Prehistoric extinctions of island birds. Ecography
16, pp. 229-250.
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Moors, P.J. (Editor)
- 1985 Conservation of Island Birds. ICBP Technical Publication
No. 3, Cambridge, England. 271 pp.
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Mountfort, G.
- 1988 Rare Birds of the World. A Collins/ICBP Handbook.
Collins and International Council For Bird Preservation, London.
256 pp. (First section covers evolution of birds, threats to
them, environmental degradation and history of bird protection;
second section gives species accounts treated by regions. Appendicies
tabulate status, range and listing on CITES and lists all birds
known to become extinct since 1600.)
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Nettleship, D.N., J. Burger, and M.
Gochfeld (Editors)
- 1994 Seabirds on Islands. Threats, Case Studies and
Action Plans. Birdlife International; distributed by Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington, DC 350 pp.
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Newton, I., and R.D. Chancellor (Editors)
- 1985 Raptors. ICBP Technical Publication No. 5. Cambridge,
England. 492 pp. (Papers of the Second World Conference on Birds
of Prey held in Greece-1982)
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Nilsson, G.
- l98l The Bird Business: A Study of the Commercial Cage
Bird Trade. 2nd edition. (Reason for increase in trade and
its side effects.) May be ordered from the Animal Welfare Institute,
P.O. Box 3650, Washington, DC 20007 or the Humane Society of
the United States, 2l00 L Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036.
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Olson, S.L.
- 1989 Extinction on Islands: Man as a Catastrophe. pp.50-53.
In D. Western and M.C. Pearl, Conservation for the Twenty-first
Century. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Pasquier, R.F. (Editor)
- 1982 Conservation of New World Parrots: Proceedings
of the ICBP Parrot Working Group Meeting, St. Lucia 1980. Smithsonian
Institution Press for the International Council for Bird Preservation.
485 pp., ill. (Review of the distribution, population, and conservation
status of nearly 150 species of parrots in the Western Hemisphere.)
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Poole, A. F.
- 1989 Ospreys: A Natural and Unnatural History. Cambridge
University Press, Massachusetts. 246 pp.
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Porter, R., M.A. Jenkins, and A. Gaski
- 1987 Working Bibliography of the Peregrine Falcon. Scientific
and Technical Series No. 9, National Wildlife Federation, Washington,
DC 185 pp. (3500 key worded and annotated citations.)
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Pratt, H.D., P.L. Bruner, and D.G. Berrett
- 1987 The Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Princeton
University Press, New Jersey. 409 pp.(Includes species accounts,
discussion of need for conservation of habitats, flora and fauna,
and prospects for protection of native Hawaiian birds.)
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Ratcliffe, D.
- 1980 The Peregrine Falcon. Buteo Books, Vermillion,
South Dakota. 416 pp. (History of man's interactions with peregrines,
their habitats, population trends, migration and ecology, and
conservation efforts.)
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Schorger, A.W.
- l955 The Passenger Pigeon. University of Wisconsin
Press, Madison. 424 pp., photographs, illus.
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Schreiber, R.W
- l982 A Brown Study of the Brown Pelican. Natural
History, Vol. 9l, No. l, January l982, pp.38-42.
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Schreiber, R.W. and E.A. Schreiber
- l980 The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis ): A Bibliography.
Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA 20 pp. (Over 900
citations.)
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Scott, J. M. et al
- 1986 Forest Bird Communities of the Hawaiian Islands:Their
Dynamics, Ecology, and Conservation. Studies in Avian Biology
No. 9. 431 pp. (Includes accounts for 40 native species and
33 introduced species.)
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Short, L.
- 1985 Last Chance for the Ivorybill. Natural
History, Vol. 94, No. 8, pp. 66-68.
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Short, L., and J. Horne
- 1986 The Ivorybill Still Lives. Natural History,
Vol. 95, No. 7, pp. 26-29.
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Silverberg, R.
- l967 The Auk, the Dodo, and the Oryx; Vanished and Vanishing
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Snyder, N. and H. Snyder
- 2000 The California Condor. A
Saga of Natural History and Conservation. Adademic
Press, San Diego, New York. 410 pp.
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Stattersfield, A.J.,
M.J. Crosby, A.J. Long and D.C. Wege
- 1998 Endemic Bird Areas of the World.
Priorities for biodiversity Conservation. Birdlife conservation
Series No. 7. Birdlife International. 846 pp.
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Stattersfield, A.J. And
D.R. Capper et al (Editors)
- 2000 Threatened Birds of the World: the
Official Source for Birds on the IUCN Red List. Birdlife
International, Cambridge, UK 852 pp.
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Steadman, D.W.
- 1995 Prehistoric Extinctions of Pacific Island
Birds: Biodiversity Meets Zooarchaeology. Science, Vol.
267, February 1995, pp. 1123-1131.
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Tanner, J.T.
- l942 The Ivory-billed Woodpecker. National Audubon
Society, New York. 111 pp., 22 figs, 20 black and white photographs.
l966 Dover Pub. reprint. (Study includes distribution, ecology,
life history, and conservation.)
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Temple, S.A. (Editor)
- l978 Endangered Birds. Management Techniques for Preserving
Threatened Species. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
466 pp. (Technical.)
- 1983 Bird Conservation Yearbook. Yearbook of the U.S.
Section of the ICBP. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
(First of an annual series. General information this year; next
year's subject, Island Birds of the U.S.)
- 1985 Bird Conservation 2. University of Wisconsin Press,
Madison. 181 pp.
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Terborgh, J.
- 1989 Where Have All the Birds Gone? Essays on the biology
and conservation of birds that migrate to American tropics.
Princeton University Press, New Jersey. 202 pp. (Includes missing
songbird migrants, crucial habitats, deforestation, conservation.)
- 1992 Why American Songbirds Are Vanishing.
Scientific American, May 1992, pp. 98-104
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Tucker, G., M. Heath, L. Tomialojc,
and R. Grimmett
- 1994 Birds in Europe: Their Conservation Status. Birdlife
International and Smithsonian Press. Washington, DC (Review
of the conservation status of birds in the European Palaearctic,
Turkey, and Greenland; includes range maps, tables, trends,
major threats and measures needed to conserve birds.
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U.S. Department of the
Interior
- 1994 Endangered Species: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
Picoides borealis. Biologue Series. U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Washington, DC. 2 pp.
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Walkinshaw, L.H.
- 1983 Kirtland’s Warbler: the Natural
History of an Endangered Species. Cranbrook Institute of
Science, No. 58, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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Walters, M.J.
- 1992 A Shadow and a Song. The Struggle to
Save an Endangered Species. Chelsea Green Publishing Company,
Vermont. 238 pp. (Story of the life and demise of the Dusky
Seaside Sparrow.)
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Wang, Sung
- 1998 China Red Data Book of Endangered Animals.
AVES. National Environmental Protection Agency, Endangered
Species
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Wege, D.C. and A.J. Long
- 1995 Priority Areas for Threatened Birds in the Neotropics.
Birdlife International and Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC 370 pp. (Most important areas for bird conservation from
Mexico south, includes Caribbean islands.)
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Wexler, M.
- 1986 Can We Save Our Only Parrot. (Puerto Rican parrots)
National Wildlife, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 4-7.
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Wilbur, S.R.
- l978 The California Condor, l966-76: A Look at its Past
and Future. North American Fauna Series 72. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Department of the Interior. l36 pp., illus. (A historical
viewpoint)
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Wildlife Conservation
International
- 1992 The Wild Bird Trade. Where a bird
in the hand means none in the bush. WCI Policy Report number
2. Bronx, New York.24 pp.
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Zimmerman, D.R.
- l975 To Save a Bird in Peril. Coward, McCann &
Geoghegan, Inc., New York. 286 pp. (Conservation efforts and
management techniques on behalf of the Peregrine Falcon, Osprey,
Cahow, Whooping Crane, Nene Goose, Vulture, Warbler, Eagle.)
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