Managing Habitat for Grassland Birds
A Guide for Wisconsin
Suggested Reading
This offering is by no means comprehensive.
Best, L.B., K.E. Freemark, J.J. Dinsmore, and M. Camp.
1995. A review and synthesis of bird habitat use in agricultural landscapes
of Iowa. American Midland Naturalist 134:1-29.
Graber, R.R. and J.W. Graber.
1963. A comparative study of bird populations in Illinois, 1906-1909 and
1956-1958. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 28:378-528.
Henderson, R.A. and D.W. Sample.
1995. Grassland communities. Pp. 116-129 in J. Addis, R. Eckstein,
A. Forbes, D Gebken, R Henderson, J. Kotar, B. Les, P. Matthiae, W.
McCown, S. Miller, B. Moss, D. Sample, M. Staggs, and K. Visser.
Wisconsin's biodiversity as a management issue: a report to
Department of Natural Resources managers. Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources, Madison, WI.
Herkert, J.R., R.E. Szafoni, V.M. Kleen, and J.E. Schwegman.
1993. Habitat establishment, enhancement, and management for forest and
grassland birds in Illinois. Illinois Department of Conservation.
Natural Heritage Technical Publication 1.
Herkert, J.R., D.W. Sample, and R.E. Warner.
1996. Management of midwestern grassland landscapes for the conservation of
migratory birds. Pp.89-116 in F.R. Thompson III, ed. Managing mid-
western landscape for the conservation of neotropical migratory birds.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, North Central Forest
Experiment Station, St. Paul. General Technical Report GTR-NC-187.
Hoffman, R.M., and D.W. Sample.
1988. Birds of wet-mesic and wet prairies in Wisconsin. Passenger Pigeon
50:143-152.
Johnson, R.G. and S.A. Temple.
1986. Assessing habitat quality for birds nesting in fragmented tallgrass
prairies. Pp. 245-249 in J. Verner, M.L. Morrison, and C.J. Ralph,
eds. Wildlife 2000: modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial
vertebrates. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
Johnson, R.G. and S.A. Temple.
1990. Nest predation and brood parasitism of tallgrass prairie birds.
Journal of Wildlife Management 54:106-111.
Kahl, R.B., T.S. Baskett, J.A. Ellis, and J.N. Burroughs.
1985. Characteristics of summer habitats of selected nongame birds in
Missouri. University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Agriculture,
Agricultural Experiment Station. Research Bulletin 1056.
Koford, R.R., and L.B. Best.
1996. Management of agricultural landscapes for the conservation of
neotropical migratory birds. Pp. 68-88 in F.R. Thompson III, ed.
Managing midwestern landscapes for the conservation of neotropical
migratory birds. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, North
Central Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul. General Technical Report
GTR-NC-187.
Mossman, M.J. and D. W. Sample.
1990. Birds of Wisconsin sedge meadows. Passenger Pigeon 52:39-55.
Mossman, M.J., E. Epstein, and R.M. Hoffman.
1991. Birds of Wisconsin pine and oak barrens. Passenger Pigeon 53:137-163.
Rodenhouse, N.L., L.B. Best, R.J. O'Connor, and E.K. Bollinger.
1995. Effects of agricultural practices and farmland structures. Pp. 269-
293 in T.E. Martin and D.M. Finch, eds. Ecology and management of
neotropical migratory birds. Oxford University Press, New York.
Ryan, M.R.
1986. Nongame management in grassland and agricultural ecosystems. Pp. 117-
136 in J.B. Hale, L.B. Best, R.L. Clawson eds. Management of nongame
wildlife in the Midwest: a developing art. North Central Section, The
Wildlife Society.
Sample, D.W.
1989. Grassland birds in southern Wisconsin: habitat preference, population
trends, and response to land use changes. University of Wisconsin,
Madison. M.S. Thesis.
Sample, D.W., and R.M. Hoffman.
1989. Birds of dry-mesic and dry prairies in Wisconsin. Passenger Pigeon
51:195-208.
Sample, D.W., and M.J. Mossman.
1994. Birds of Wisconsin oak savannas: past, present, and future. Pp. 155-
159 in J.S. Fralish, R.C. Anderson, J.E. Ebinger, and R. Szafoni,
eds. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Barrens and
Savannas. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes National
Program Office.
Skinner, R.M., T.S. Baskett, and M.D. Blenden.
1984. Bird habitat on Missouri prairies. Missouri Department of
Conservation. Terrestrial Series 14.
Swanson, D.A.
1996. Nesting ecology and nesting habitat requirements of Ohio's grassland-
nesting birds: a literature review. Ohio Department of Natural
Resources Division of Wildlife. Ohio Fish and Wildlife Report 13.
Wiens, J.A.
1969. An approach to the study of ecological relationships among grassland
birds. Ornithological Monograph No. 8 American Ornithologist's Union.
Allen Press, Inc. Lawrence, Kansas.
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