Here are some links and ideas for finding relevant scientific references for your ornithology project.
For those of you conducting projects with a survey or census, we have
placed an Adobe Acrobat version of the reference:
Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds
by: John Ralph, Geupel, Geoffrey R.; Pyle, Peter; Martin, Thomas E.;
DeSante, David F.
You access the article by visiting the
e-reserve page at the library, select the course number, and enter the password.
They gave me the password "ecol484" (all lower case), but I could only get
in using "mimus", so try both if necessary. You'll need a copy of the
Adobe Acrobat software, which is obtainable through the reference page. The
reference is stored in three parts; if someone wishes to look through
and e-mail me the useful sections,
I'll update this link.
One way to search for individual studies is to use the Science Citation Index. The SCI allows searches for topics and gives abstracts of particular articles. You can search for topics (like nesting) or for species. You must enter through the UA system, so it's best to access through this page. Since you have to "reconfigure" your browser to use this, it may be best to do this in the library on their computers.
Other options for searching might be found on the Index/search page of the library, where an article index is available.
If your project focuses on one or a few species, and you wish
to find references related to that species (or get measurements, such as bill sizes),
the best place to look is at the set of species accounts in
The Birds of North America : life histories for the 21st century.
If the account for that species is available, they are
housed in the Science Library Reference Section at QL681 .B57.
The accounts are not in taxonomic order, but
rather numbered in the order they were written (entirely random). Most, but not all
species are currently available.
Contained in the reference section of the library, and near the accounts is a cumulative index, telling which account number corresponds to a particular species. The cumulative index is also available online at the BNA home site.
The Ornithological Societies of North America (OSNA) provides an on-line
service where journal articles are organized into categories, and sometimes
a one-sentence summary is given. They update the listings on a yearly or
6-month basis. These simply give the references listed for a given period,
so, for example, the January 2001 listing may include
papers published from all of 2000.
You can access the listings for about the past eight years by
visiting their
Recent Ornithological Literature Online page, and using the
search function of your browser ("Edit"- "Find"), you can enter keywords
to see if any references are there.
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