Breeding biology of Aplomado Falcons in desert grasslands of Chihuahua, Mexico;Biología reproductiva de Falco femoralis en los yerbasales desérticos de Chihuahua, México

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-143

  Montoya, Angel B ^a,b   Zwank, Phillip J ^a   Cardenas, Manuel ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cibola National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; FALCO FEMORALIS; GALLIFORMES; GEOCOCCYX CALIFORNIANUS; INSECTA; MOLOTHRUS ATER; STURNELLA; TORREYI; TROCHILIDAE; YUCCA; YUCCA ELATA; YUCCA TORREYI;

EID: 0031288054     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 1983. Checklist to North American Birds, 6th edition. Amer. Ornithol. Union, Washington, D.C. 877 pp.
2. BENT, A. C. 1938. Life histories of North American birds of prey, part two. U.S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 170:96-99.
3. BERGER, D. D., AND H. C. MUELLER. 1959. The bal-chatri: a trap for the birds of prey. Bird-Banding 30:18-26.
4. BOCK, C. E., AND J. H. BOCK. 1988. Grassland birds in southeastern Arizona: impacts of fire, grazing and alien vegetation. ICBR Tech. Pub. 7:43-57.
5. BOHNAM, C. D. 1989. Measurements for terrestrial vegetation. John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, New York. 338 pp.
6. BUFFINGTON, L. C., AND C. H. HERBEL. 1965. Vegetational changes on a semiarid desert grassland range from 1858 to 1963. Ecol. Monogr. 35:139-164.
7. COTTAM, G., AND J. T. CURTIS. 1956. The use of distance measures in phytosociological sampling. Ecology 37:451-60.
8. DICK-PEDDIE, W. A. 1993. New Mexico vegetation, past, present, and future. Univ. New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 244 pp.
9. EVANS, R. A., AND R. M. LOVE. 1957. The step-point method of sampling: a practical tool in range research. J. Range Manage. 10:208-212.
10. FRASER, J. D., L. D. FRENZEL, AND J. E. MATHISEN. 1985. The impact of human activities on breeding bald eagles in north-central Minnesota. J. Wildl. Manage. 49:585-592.
11. HASTINGS, J. R., AND R. M. TURNER. 1965. The changing mile: an ecological study of vegetation change with time in the lower mile of an arid and semiarid region. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona. 317 pp.
12. HECTOR, D. P. 1981. The habitat, diet and foraging behavior of the aplomado falcon, Falco femoralis (Temminck). M.S. thesis, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, Oklahoma. 189 pp.
13. _. 1985. The diet of the Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis) in eastern Mexico. Condor 87:334-336.
14. _. 1987. The decline of the Aplomado Falcon in the United States. American Birds 41:381-389.
15. JENNRICH, R. I., AND F. B. TURNER. 1969. Measurement of non-circular home range. J. Theor. Biol. 22:227-237.
16. JIMÉNEZ, J. E. 1993. Notes on the diet of the Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis) in north-central Chile. Raptor Res. 27:161-163.
17. JOHNSGARD, P. A. 1990. Hawks eagles and falcons of North America: biology and natural history. Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. 403 pp.
18. KEDDY-HECTOR, D. P. 1990. Aplomado falcon recovery plan. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., Region 2. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 58 pp.
19. KIFF, L. F., D. B. PEAKALL, AND D. P. HECTOR. 1980. Eggshell thinning and organochloride residues in the bat and Aplomado Falcons in Mexico. Proc. Int. Ornith. Congr. 17:949-952.
20. LIGON, J. S. 1961. New Mexico birds and where to find them. Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 212 pp.
21. NEWTON, I. 1979. Population ecology of raptors. Buteo Books, Vermillion, South Dakota. 399 pp.
22. PEREZ, C. J. 1995. Movements, habitat use, and survival of released Aplomado Falcons at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Texas. M.S. thesis. New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, New Mexico. 62 pp.
23. SHULL, A. M. 1986. Final rule; listing of the Aplomado Falcon as endangered. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Fed. Register 51:6686-6690.
24. SPRINGER, J. T. 1979. Some sources of bias and sampling error in radio triangulation. J. Wildl. Manage. 43:926-935.
25. STÜWE, M., AND C. E. BLOHOWIAK. 1985. Microcomputer programs for the analysis of animal locations (MCPAAL), version 1.2, Conserv. and Res. Cent. Natl. Zool. Park, Smithsonian Inst. Front Royal, Virginia. 25 pp.
26. SWENSON, J. E. 1979. Factors affecting status and reproduction of ospreys in Yellowstone National Park. J. Wildl. Mange. 43:595-601.
27. TEMPLE, S. A. 1972. Sex and age characteristics of North American Merlins. Bird Banding 43:191-196.
28. WILEY, J. W. 1975. The nesting and reproductive success of Red-tailed Hawks and Red-shouldered Hawk in Orange County, California. Condor 77:133-139.
29. WILLIAMS, S. O., III, AND J. HUBBARD. 1991. American birds: Southwest regional report: New Mexico. Am. Birds 45:1146-1149.