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Population Dynamics of the Mourning Dove in South Dakota
Mourning dove bandings in South Dakota totaled 44,842 from 1917 through 1970. Adult bandings totaled 44.4 percent of all bandings while immatures, juveniles, locals, and unknown age were 41.3, 0.8, 12.8, and 0.7 percent, respectively. Recoveries totaled 2.8 percent of the banded population, 2.5 …
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The Growth of Mourning Dove Nestlings in Eastern Nebraska
This study on the Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macroura) was designed to provide a basic description of growth in the nestling stage of development for this species, and in this particular locale. The description is in terms of growth rate and attainment of various anatomical features including feather …
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Nesting of Mourning Doves in Eastern South Dakota
The mourning dove¹, not presently a game bird in South Dakota, is gaining support toward that status. During the 1959 state legislative season a bill sponsored by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks to place the mourning dove on the game bird list was passed by the House and defeated by the …
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Doctoral thesis recital (percussion)
Concertante / Thad Anderson -- Mourning dove sonnet / Christopher Deane -- Torse III / Akira Miyoshi -- Red arc/Blue veil / John Luther Adams (with Charlie Magnone, piano) -- Romantico : from "Cinco piezas" / Astor Piazzolla -- Carpe Diem / Susan Powell (Adam Davis, percussion).
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An Ecological Study of Mourning Doves in a Cold Desert Ecosystem on the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) use of and movements around man-made ponds, as well as dove nesting ecology, were studied from 1983 through 1985 on the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). Relative dove use was higher (P < 0.01) on some ponds than others, and multiple regression revealed …
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… kinship ties. It examines Indigenous grief and mourning during the genocide of the buffalo; buffalo confinement and diaspora during the settlement era; women’s knowledge of the connection between buffalo and the land; and the artist’s role in revitalizing the relationship with buffalo. Authors …
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The Role of Urban Climate and Land Cover in Phenology, Nest Success, and Habitat Use
… rates of American Robins (Turdus migratorius), Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura), and Black-headed Grosbeaks (Pheucticus melanocephalus). Nest survival increased at warmer than normal temperatures and to a lesser extent at colder than normal temperatures. Canopy cover within a 20m radius of the …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… Far and Chapter three on the novel Cogewea by Mourning Dove theorize reification as a process through the splitting and doubling of racialized subjects to manage white anxieties about miscegenation. These chapters examine how texts featuring mixed-race heroines work with and against romance and …
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Grassland bird associations in a managed agricultural matrix
… included Eastern Meadowlark, Indigo Bunting, Mourning Dove, and Northern Bobwhite. Bird diversity was greater in blocks than buffers, and diverse filter strips had the greatest bird densities. I found and monitored large samples of Dickcissel (n = 733) and Red-winged Blackbird (n = 409) nests …
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Vocal responses of adult Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) to potential nest predators and the behavioral responses of nestlings
… My control was a study skin of a Mourning Dove <em>(Zenaida macroura)</em>. To assess responses during 3-min trials, predators or the control were placed adjacent to or on nest boxes with 12-19-day-old nestlings. During trials, adult vocalizations were recorded and the behavior of …
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Wildlife Use of Wastewater Ponds at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
… killdeer, spotted sandpiper, Wilson's phalarope, mourning dove, common nighthawk, horned lark, bank swallow, barn swallow, European starling, yellow-headed blackbird, Brewer's blackbird, and brown-headed cowbird. Most of the common species nested at or near the ponds. Species richness was greatest …