| SPECIAL
SECTION: CAVITY NESTERS AND KEYSTONE PROCESSES |
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| Emerging
Concepts and Research Directions in the Study of Cavity-Nesting Birds:
Keystone Ecological Processes |
1 |
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JAMES
C. BEDNARZ, DANA RIPPER AND PAUL M. RADLEY |
| Nest-sites
and Nest Webs for Cavity-Nesting Communities in Interior British
Columbia, Canada: Nest Characteristics and Niche Partitioning |
5 |
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KATHY
MARTIN, KATHRYN E. H. AITKEN AND KAREN L. WIEBE |
| Modeling
Occupancy of Nest Cavities in Recently Burned Forests |
20 |
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VICTORIA
A. SAAB, JONATHAN DUDLEY AND WILLIAM L. THOMPSON |
| Ecological
Relationships between Fungi and Woodpecker Cavity Sites |
37 |
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JEROME
A. JACKSON AND BETTE J. S. JACKSON |
| The
Role of Foraging Woodpeckers in the Decomposition of Ponderosa Pine
Snags |
50 |
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KERRY
L. FARRIS, MARTIN J. HUSS AND STEVE ZACK |
FEATURE ARTICLES |
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| Declines
in Wintering Populations of Red Knots in Southern South America |
60 |
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R.
I. GUY MORRISON, R. KENYON ROSS AND LAWRENCE J. NILES |
| An
Experimental Field Study of the Function of Crested Auklet Feather
Odor |
71 |
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IAN
L. JONES, JULIE C. HAGELIN, HEATHER L. MAJOR AND L. E. L. RASMUSSEN |
| Winter
Ecology of Spectacled Eiders: Environmental Characteristics and Population
Change |
79 |
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MARGARET
R. PETERSEN AND DAVID C. DOUGLAS |
| Feeding
Behavior of Four Arboreal Darwin's Finches: Adaptations to Spatial
and Seasonal Variability |
95 |
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SABINE
TEBBICH, MICHAEL TABORSKY, BIRGIT FESSL, MICHAEL DVORAK AND HANS WINKLER |
| Diets
of Insectivorous Birds along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon,
Arizona |
106 |
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HELEN
K. YARD, CHARLES VAN RIPER III AND BRYAN T. BROWN |
| Avian
Nest Success in Midwestern Forests Fragmented by Agriculture |
116 |
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MELINDA
G. KNUTSON, GERALD J. NIEMI, WESLEY E. NEWTON AND MARY A. FRIBERG |
| Reproductive
Effort and Return Rates in the Mountain White-crowned Sparrow |
131 |
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MARTIN
L. MORTON, MARIA E. PEREYRA, JOHN D. CRANDALL, ELIZABETH A. MACDOUGALL-SHACKLETON
AND THOMAS P. HAHN |
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Bacteria
in the Crop of the Seed-Eating Green-rumped Parrotlet |
139 |
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M.
ANDREÍNA PACHECO, M. ALEXANDRA GARCIA-AMADO, CARLOS BOSQUE AND
MARÍA G. DOMINGUEZ-BELLO |
| Rest-Phase
Thermoregulation in Free-Ranging White-backed Mousebirds |
143 |
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ANDREW
E. MCKECHNIE, GERHARD KÖRTNER AND BARRY G. LOVEGROVE |
| Low
Frequency of Extra-Pair Paternity and High Frequency of Adoption in
Black-legged Kittiwakes |
149 |
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FABRICE
HELFENSTEIN, CLAIRE TIRARD, ETIENNE DANCHIN AND RICHARD H. WAGNER |
| Bimodal
Signaling of a Sexually Selected Trait: Gular Pouch Drumming in the
Magnificent Frigatebird |
156 |
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VINNI
MADSEN, THORSTEN J. S. BALSBY, TORBEN DABELSTEEN AND JOSÉ LUIS
OSORNO |
| Discrete
Variants of Evening Grosbeak Flight Calls |
161 |
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KENDRA
SEWALL, RODD KELSEY AND THOMAS P. HAHN |
| Loss
of Habitat Connectivity Hinders Pair Formation and Juvenile Dispersal
of Chucao Tapaculos in Chilean Rainforest |
166 |
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MARY
F. WILLSON |
| Food
Deliveries at Swallow-tailed Kite Nests in Southern Florida |
171 |
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KENNETH
D. MEYER, STEVEN M. MCGEHEE AND MICHAEL W. COLLOPY |
| Food
Delivered to Nests of Swallow-tailed Kites in Tikal National Park,
Guatemala |
177 |
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RICHARD
P. GERHARDT, DAWN M. GERHARDT AND MIGUEL ANGEL VÁSQUEZ |
| Early
Onset of Incubation by Wood Ducks |
182 |
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GARY
R. HEPP |
COMMENTARY |
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| The
Problem of Molt and Plumage Homologies and the First Plumage Cycle |
187 |
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LUKAS
JENNI AND RAFFAEL WINKLER |
| Molt
and Plumage Terminology of Howell et al. (2003) Still May Not Reflect
Homologies |
191 |
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ERNEST
J. WILLOUGHBY |
| Understanding
Evolution of Plumages and Other Cyclic Avian Life-History Phenomena:
Role for an Improved Molt Terminology |
196 |
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THEUNIS
PIERSMA |
| Determining
Evolutionary Homologies of Molts and Plumages: A Commentary on Howell
et al. (2003) |
199 |
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CHRISTOPHER
W. THOMPSON |
| The
First Basic Problem Revisited: Reply to Comments on Howell et al.
(2003) |
206 |
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STEVE
N. G. HOWELL, CHRIS CORBEN, PETER PYLE AND DANNY I. ROGERS |
ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW AWARD |
211 |
| INFORMATION
FOR CONTRIBUTORS |
212 |