Colonial and Non-colonial Waterbird Bibliography
Bibliographic Database developed for the Northern Prairie and Parkland Waterbird Conservation Plan
This database was created as a means of providing a bibliographic resource on many aspects of colonial and non-colonial waterbird ecology. It was compiled by a number of partner agencies working collaboratively on the Northern Prairie and Parkland Waterbird Conservation Plan, including the Canadian Wildlife Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and many others. Geographical emphasis was placed on the northern prairie and parkland region of North America, composing Bird Conservation Region 11 of the North American Waterbird Conservation Plan. The database consists of about 2250 entries from the 1880's through 2001. The database was created using references from a number of sources. References include both published and unpublished papers and documents, and from web resources. This database will be updated periodically.
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Species included are:
| Common Loon | Gavia immer |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps |
| Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus |
| Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisagena |
| Eared Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis |
| Western Grebe | Aechmophorus occidentalis |
| Clark's Grebe | Aechmophorus clarkii |
| American White Pelican | Pelecanus erythrorynchos |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Phalacrocorax auritus |
| American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosis |
| Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens |
| Black-crowned Night-heron | Nycticorax nycticorax |
| Yellow-crowned Night-heron | Nyctanassa violacea |
| White-faced Ibis | Plegadis chihi |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus |
| American Coot | Fulica americana |
| King Rail | Rallus elegans |
| Virginia Rail | Rallus limicola |
| Sora | Porzana carolina |
| Yellow Rail | Coturnicops noveboracensis |
| Black Rail | Laterallus jamaicensis |
| Sandhill Crane | Grus canadensis |
| Whooping Crane | Grus americana |
| Franklin's Gull | Larus pipixcan |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Larus philadelphia |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis |
| California Gull | Larus californicus |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus |
| Caspian Tern | Sterna caspia |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri |
| Least Tern | Sterna antillarum |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger |
The database can be searched using any term that is relevant to waterbirds or waterbird ecology. Alternatively, appropriate keywords were manually added to all records in the database to better facilitate specific searches by subjects. The following keywords were used to categorize all records within the database.
| Banding | Migration |
| Behavior | Monitoring Techniques |
| Breeding Biology | Morphology |
| Capture Techniques | Natural History |
| Competition | Occurrence |
| Conflicts | Parasitism |
| Conservation | Phenology |
| Contaminants | Physiology |
| Demography | Population Biology Techniques |
| Diet | Population Genetics |
| Disease | Population Models |
| Distribution | Predation |
| Endocrinology | Site Surveys |
| Enhancement | Status |
| Foraging | Survey |
| General Biology | Threats |
| Habitat Management | Toxicology |
| Habitat Requirements | Winter Ecology |
| Inventory |
This resource should be cited as:
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center and Parkland Waterbird Conservation Plan. 2004. Colonial and Non-colonial Waterbird Bibliography. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/waterbird/index.htm (Version 14OCT2004).
