SBSC Weekly Highlights, August 15, 2005
Submitted by Kristin Brown
USGS Avian Research Showcased at Ornithological Conference: Researchers with the Southwest Biological Science Center will be giving a variety of invited presentations at the 123rd Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU), held August 23 - 27 2005 in Santa Barbara, CA. The AOU is the premier scientific ornithological society in North America, and the meeting organizers asked USGS scientists and cooperators to give oral presentations on their recent research in the symposium Avian conservation in western riparian ecosystems.
The ten SBSC presentations and posters highlight studies on the Wilson's Warblers, the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, the Yellow-billed Cuckoos, and saltcedar habitat, and include:
- - Stopover ecology of Wilson's Warblers along the Lower Colorado River: a telemetry study. KRISTINA L. ECTON, CHARLES VAN RIPER, and CHRIS O'BRIEN. (presentation)
- - Avian food resources in saltcedar versus native habitats: implications for the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. SCOTT L. DURST, TAD C. THEIMER, EBEN H. PAXTON, MARK K. SOGGE and MARLYSE C. WASKIEWICZ. (presentation)
- - Is saltcedar habitat always bad for birds? lessons from studies of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. MARK K. SOGGE and EBEN H. PAXTON. (presentation)
- - Conservation of Southwestern Willow Flycatchers: home range and habitat use by an endangered bird. SUZANNE N. CARDINAL, EBEN H. PAXTON and TAD C. THEIMER. (presentation)
- - The flycatcher and the phoenix: riparian habitat creation and destruction in a fluctuating reservoir. EBEN H. PAXTON. (presentation)
- - Distribution and abundance patterns of Yellow-billed Cuckoos in Arizona and their implications for riparian conservation. MATTHEW J. JOHNSON, J. A. HOLMES, CHARLES VAN RIPER, III and MURRELET D. HALTERMAN. (presentation)
- - Comparing Yellow-billed Cuckoo distribution models in Arizona. CHARLES VAN RIPER III, TERENCE R. ARUNDEL, MATTHEW J. JOHNSON and JENNIFER A. HOLMES. (presentation)
- - Assessing variation of plumage coloration within the Willow Flycatcher. CAROLINE CAUSEY, EBEN PAXTON, TOM KORONKIEWICZ, MARK K. SOGGE and MARY ANNE McCLOUD (poster)
- - Using retained remiges to age second-year Southwestern Willow Flycatchers. PATTI J. NEWELL and EBEN H. PAXTON. (poster)
- - Floating mistnets: a technique for capturing birds over water. M. G. POLLOCK and E. H. PAXTON. (poster)
Contact: Mark Sogge; Flagstaff, AZ, mark_sogge@usgs.gov; 928-556-7194.
