THE CONDOR
Volume 110, Number 1
February 2008 C.E.
Table of Contents

FEATURE ARTICLES
Sexual Selection and the Genetic Mating System of Wild Turkeys


ALAN H. KRAKAUER
Investment in Nesting Activities and Patterns of Extra- and Within-Group Genetic Paternity in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird

DEAN A. WILLIAMS AND AMANDA M. HALE
Social Selection and Geographic Variation in Two Monarch Flycatchers from the Solomon Islands

CHRISTOPHER E. FILARDI AND CATHERINE E. SMITH
Plumage Convergence and Evolutionary History of the Island Thrush in the Philippines

ANDREW W. JONES AND ROBERT S. KENNEDY
Influence of Drought on Annual Survival of the Mountain Plover in Montana

STEPHEN J. DINSMORE
Breeding Experience and Demographic Response to Environmental Variability in the White Stork

MARIE NEVOUX, JEAN-CLAUDE BARBRAUD, AND CHRISTOPHE BARBRAUD
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Density and Numbers During Migratory Stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska

JOEL G. JORGENSEN, JOHN P. MCCARTY, AND L. LAREESA WOLFENBARGER
Neotropical Austral Migrant Landbirds: Population Trends and Habitat Use in the Central Monte Desert, Argentina

VÍCTOR R. CUETO, JAVIER LOPEZ DE CASENAVE, AND LUIS MARONE
Cavity-Nest Webs in a Longleaf Pine Ecosystem

LORI A. BLANC AND JEFFREY R. WALTERS
Call Imitation and Call Modification in Red Crossbills

PATRICK C. KEENAN AND CRAIG W. BENKMAN
Macrogeographic Vocal Variation in Subspecies of Swamp Sparrow

IRENE A. LIU, BERNARD LOHR, BRIAN OLSEN, AND RUSSELL GREENBERG
Body Temperature and Activity Patterns of Free-Living Laughing Kookaburras: The Largest Kingfisher is Heterothermic

CHRISTINE E. COOPER, GERHARD KÖRTNER, R. MARK BRIGHAM, AND FRITZ GEISER
Nest Site Selection in a Hot Desert: Trade-Off Between Microclimate and Predation Risk?

B. IRENE TIELEMAN, HENDRIKA J. VAN NOORDWIJK, AND JOSEPH B. WILLIAMS
Sex Hormones in the Song Wren: Variation with Time of Year, Molt, Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone, and Social Challenge

D. SHALLIN BUSCH, TARA R. ROBINSON, THOMAS P. HAHN, AND JOHN C. WINGFIELD
Growth of Brown Pelican Nestlings Exposed to Sublethal Levels of Soft Tick Infestation

LISA M. F. EGGERT AND PATRICK G. R. JODICE
Egg-Laying Behavior in Screaming Cowbirds: Why Does a Specialist Brood Parasite Waste So Many Eggs?

MARIA C. DE MÁRSICO AND JUAN C. REBOREDA

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Sex-Biased Mortality of Common Terns in Wind-Farm Collisions

ERIC W. M. STIENEN, WOUTER COURTENS, JORIS EVERAERT, AND MARC VAN DE WALLE
Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Urban Resident Landbirds of New Orleans, Louisiana

PETER H. YAUKEY
Wing Microevolution in the House Sparrow Predicted by Model of Optimized Wing Loading

WILLIAM B. MONAHAN
Nest Predation in a Neotropical Forest Occurs during Daytime

MICHAEL M. LIBSCH, CHELINA BATISTA, DEBORAH BUEHLER, ISIS OCHOA, JEFFREY BRAWN, AND ROBERT E. RICKLEFS
Historic Genetic Structuring and Paraphyly within the Great-tailed Grackle

JEFFREY M. DACOSTA, WALTER WEHTJE, AND JOHN KLICKA
A Classification-Tree Analysis of Nesting Habitat in an Island Population of Northern Harriers

BLAKE MASSEY, RHYS BOWEN, CURTICE GRIFFIN, AND KEVIN MCGARIGAL
The Influence of Salinity on Provisioning Rates and Nestling Growth in Bald Eagles in the Lower Chesapeake Bay

A. CATHERINE MARKHAM AND BRYAN D. WATTS

BOOK REVIEWS

Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island, by Jerome Mark Walters

SHEILA CONANT AND DAVID LEONARD
Ivorybill Hunters: The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness, by Geoffrey E. Hill

ROBERT P. RUSSELL
The Goshawk, by Robert Kenward

JOHN R. SQUIRES