THE CONDOR
Vol. 104, Number 2
May 2002 C.E.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURE ARTICLES

Mass Change Pattern of Blackcaps Refueling during Spring Migration: Evidence for Physiological Limitations to Food Assimilation

 231

LEONARD Z. GANNES

Cavity Adoption and the Evolution of Coloniality in Cavity-Nesting Birds

 240

JESSICA R. EBERHARD

Objective Assessment of Sexual Plumage Dichromatism in the Picui Dove

 248

BETTINA MAHLER AND BART KEMPENAERS

Do Feeder Counts Reliably Indicate Bird Population Changes? 21 Years of Winter Bird Counts in Ontario, Canada

 255

DENIS LEPAGE AND CHARLES M. FRANCIS

Residency and Movement Patterns of Wintering Dunlin in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

 271

PETER M SANZENBACHER AND SUSAN M. HAIG

Adaptive Modification of Tail Structure in Relation to Body Mass and Buckling in Woodcreepers

 281

PABLO L. TUBARO, DARIO A. LIJTMAER, MARIA G. PALACIOS AND CECILIA KOPUCHIAN

Differential Survival of Yearling and Adult Female Mallards and Its Relation to Breeding Habitat Conditions

 297

KEVIN W. DUFOUR AND ROBERT G. CLARK

Local Survival of Adult and Juvenile Marbled Murrelets and Their Importance for Estimating Reproductive Success

 309

CECILIA LOUGHEED, LYNN W. LOUGHEED, FRED COOKE AND SEAN BOYD

Techniques for Investigating Breeding Chronology in Marbled Murrelets, Desolation Sound, British Columbia

 319

CECILIA LOUGHEED, BRETT A. VANDERKIST, LYNN W. LOUGHEED AND FRED COOKE

Landscape-Scale Relationships between Abundance of Marbled Murrelets and Distribution of Nesting Habitat

 331

MARTIN G. RAPHAEL, DIANE EVANS MACK AND BRIAN A. COOPER

Do Some Northern Goshawk Nest Areas Consistently Fledge More Young Than Others?

 343

ERICA L. MCCLAREN, PATRICIA L. KENNEDY AND SARAH R. DEWEY

Breeding Success in the Western Gull x Glaucous-winged Gull Complex: The Influence of Habitat and Nest-Site Characteristics

 353

THOMAS P. GOOD

Hooded Warbler Nesting Success Adjacent to Group Selection and Clearcut Edges in a Southeastern Bottomland Forest

 366

CHRISTOPHER E. MOORMAN, DAVID C. GUYNN JR AND JOHN C. KILGO

Large-Scale Geographic Variation in Songs of Gambel's White-crowned Sparrows

 378

GLEN CHILTON, MYRA O. WIEBE AND PAUL HANDFORD

Vocal Distinctiveness and Response to Conspecific Playback in the Spotted Antbird, a Neotropical Suboscine

 387

SUSANNE C. BARD, MICHAELA HAU, MARTIN WIKELSKI AND JOHN C. WINGFIELD

Selection of Incubation Mound Sites by Three Sympatric Megapodes in Papua New Guinea

 395

J. ROSS SINCLAIR

A Neglected Cost of Brood Parasitism: Egg Punctures by Shiny Cowbirds during Inspection of Potential Host Nests

 407

VIVIANA MASSONI AND JUAN CARLOS REBOREDA

Male-Female Differences in Parental Care in Monogamous Crested Auklets

 413

GAIL S. FRASER, IAN L. JONES AND FIONA M. HUNTER

Microsatellite Polymorphism and Genetic Structure of Florida Mottled Duck Populations

 424

CHRISTEN L. WILLIAMS, RICHARD C. BRUST AND OLIN E. RHODES JR.



SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Hybridization and Population Subdivision within and between Ross's Geese and Lesser Snow Geese: A Molecular Perspective

 432

JASON D. WECKSTEIN, ALAN D. AFTON, ROBERT M. ZINK AND RAY T. ALISAUSKAS

Nestling Sex Ratios in the Yellow-naped Amazon: No Evidence for Adaptive Modification

 437

JASON M. SOUTH AND TIMOTHY F. WRIGHT

Diving Behavior of the Red-legged Cormorant in Southeastern Patagonia, Argentina

 440

ESTEBAN FRERE, FLAVIO QUINTANA AND PATRICIA GANDINI

Short Underwater Opening of the Beak following Immersion in Seven Penguin Species

 444

YAN ROPERT-COUDERT, AKIKO KATO, RORY P. WILSON AND MASANORI KURITA

Effects of Data-Loggers Implanted for a Full Year in Female Common Eiders

 448

MAGELLA GUILLEMETTE, ANTHONY J. WOAKES, ANNETTE FLAGSTAD AND PATRICK J. BUTLER

Patch Choice and Foraging Behavior of Nonbreeding American Flamingos in Yucatán, Mexico

 452

FELICITY ARENGO AND GUY A. BALDASSARRE

Variation in Size, Composition, and Quality of Ruddy Duck Eggs and Ducklings

 457

JEFFREY T. PELAYO AND ROBERT G. CLARK



BOOK REVIEWS

A Passion for Birds/ American Ornithology after Audubon, by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

 463

PETER STETTENHEIM

A Manual for Wildlife Radio Tracking, by Robert E. Kenward

 464

JOHN M. MARZLUFF

Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats, by Nicholas B. Davies

 466

MARK E. HAUBER

Galápagos Diary, by Hermann Heinzel and Barnaby Hall

 467

GEORGE W. COX