California Water Birds ...The Academy, 1900 - Birds |
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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES adjustment to winter apparently autumn Baja California Black-footed Albatross black-throated Black-vented Shearwaters Bonaparte's Gulls breast and abdomen breeding grounds brown brownish black Calif CALIFORNIA ACADEMY California Water Birds CORMORANT desire for travel Dolichopodidae early exodus migration failure of food feathers flight flock FORSTER'S TERN Gavia imber Gavia lumme Gavia pacifica Gulls were rare HEERMANN'S GULL heredity immature jugulum June BY LEVERETT June they became lagoon Larus loiterers LOOMIS Curator migratory movement Monterey Bay Monterey harbor Monterey wharf mottled nesting Northern Phalaropes numerous nuptial filaments ocean old birds Ornithology Issued December Pacific Coast PACIFIC LOON Peru Phalacrocorax Pink-footed Shearwaters Point Pinos possibly also foresight return migration return movement RHINOCEROS SCIENCES THIRD SERIES seen SERIES ZOOLOGY VOL Shearwaters were abundant species Sterna stragglers were encountered talent for geography terey wharf THIRD SERIES ZOOLOGY Uria lomvia Vicinity of Monterey Water Birds.-No WILLIAM E William Morton Wheeler wing young birds
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Page 363 - No. 2 — Researches in American Oligochaeta, with Especial Reference to those of the Pacific Coast and Adjacent Islands. By Gustav Eisen, Ph.
Page 349 - Loons on the 12th of May, there were a few loiterers on the water in the Monterey harbor. If observation had not been extended to the ocean, these stragglers would have been all that were observed, evidencing how false an impression of migratory movements may be gained if only arrested migration is studied. Retrograde Migration. — It was noticed that many of the Bonaparte's Gulls in...
Page 351 - ... contraction in the food area, seems to indicate an intelligent appreciation of the necessity of migration. Whatever be the case, young birds might readily acquire the habit of migration by following the example of old travelers, who in youth had acquired the habit in like manner from their elders. " In its early days the developing animal is reading the paragraph of life. Every sentence mastered is built into the tissue of experience, and leaves its impress on the plastic, yet retentive brain....
Page 348 - As on the 12th, they flew in bands and passed Point Pinos without entering Monterey Bay. By the 29th this flight had subsided. Afterwards no extensive migratory movement was witnessed, although stragglers were observed to the end of my stay. BONAPARTE'S GULL. On May...
Page 348 - ... the 5th few were to be found anywhere. May 12 there was a great passage of Loons in companies upon the ocean — the Pacific Loon apparently predominating. It was foreshadowed by a considerable movement on the nth and was followed by a period of little activity from the 14th to the 19th.
Page 350 - The term return migration is employed because the first migration in each bird is from the place of its birth, the movement back to the breeding habitat being therefore a return migration.
Page 361 - ... the case of lost or diseased birds, the presence of boreal species in the summer months in the region below the breeding habitat is seemingly explained by late return and early exodus migration. The shore was not patrolled, so little was learned of the waders frequenting the beaches and surf-beaten rocks.
Page 350 - ... paper7 facts have been presented showing that the young are guided by the old, and that the latter are directed by physical phenomena which repeated 1 Calif.
Page 354 - Afterwards there were reinforcements, but they were transient, the species declining with the ebbing of the migration. Early in June all had forsaken the bay and ocean in the vicinity of Point Pinos. An adult female from Monterey, May 27, has some white feathers on the breast and abdomen, which is likewise the case, in...