White-Winged Dove in Thompson, Manitoba

A Comparison of White-Winged Dove Zenaida asiatica Densities Estimated During Morning and Evening Surveys

Surveying bird populations through visual observation is generally limited to morning. The focus on morning surveys is based on the reasonable assumption that detection is more likely when birds are most active. However, population surveys could become more timeand cost-efficient if both morning and evening sampling were equally effective, particularly for game birds, such as white-winged dove ...

William Dove

The much-agitated question respecting this man's moral and legal responsibility has been determinately and irrevocabty settled by the public executioner! William Dove was hanged on the 8th of August. On the evening of the 1st of August the editor of this journal had a lengthened interview with Mr. Barret, Dove s solicitor, and Mr. Morley, one of the witnesses for the Crown. Mr. Morley was only ...

Dove tale

unusual pollinator with a long proboscis. This was only confirmed later with the discovery of a moth with a suitable proboscis. And Darwin had strong links with Kew — he was a close friend of one Shortly after biologist Bonnie Rusk began her graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, her supervisor, Stanley Temple, made a suggestion that changed her life. She was interested parti...

Thompson: African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection of Katherine Coryton White

Coalitions of relatives and reproductive skew in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs.

We used DNA fingerprinting to examine reproductive skew in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs, Corcorax melanorhamphos, which live in groups of up to 20 individuals. Before a severe drought, groups that had been stable for multiple years were characterized by long-term monogamy involving a single breeding pair (high skew). After the drought, new groups formed from the amalgamation of m...