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title	:	Birds of the Great Basin : A Natural History Max C. Fleischmann Series in Great Basin Natural History
author	:	Ryser, Fred A.; Dewey, Jennifer.
publisher	:	University of Nevada Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087417080X
print isbn13	:	9780874170801
ebook isbn13	:	9780874173765
language	:	English
subject	Birds--Great Basin.
publication date	:	1985
lcc	:	QL683.G65R97 1985eb
ddc	:	598.2979
subject	:	Birds--Great Basin.

Page iii Max C. Fleischmann Series in Great Basin Natural History

Page v Books in the Great Basin Natural History Series Trees of the Great Basin Ronald M. Lanner Birds of the Great Basin Fred A. Ryser, Jr. Geology of the Great Basin Bill Fiero Shrubs of the Great Basin Hugh N. Mozingo Fishes of the Great Basin William & John Sigler The Sagebrush Ocean Stephen Trimble

Page vii Birds of the Great Basin A Natural History Fred A. Ryser, Jr. Drawings by Jennifer Dewey University of Nevada Press Reno & Las Vegas

Page viii GREAT BASIN SERIES EDITOR: JOHN F. STETTER Cover photograph: Golden Eagle. Stephen Trimble. Back cover photograph: Tail feathers of female American Kestrel. Stephen Trimble. Copyright University of Nevada Press 1985 Drawings copyright Jennifer Dewey 1985 All rights reserved Composed and printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ryser, Fred A., 1920 Birds of the Great Basin. (Max C. Fleischmann series in Great Basin natural history) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Birds-Great Basin. I. Dewey, Jennifer. II. Title. III. Series. QL683.G65R97 1985 598.2979 84-25763 ISBN 0-87417-079-6 ISBN 0-87417-080-X (pbk.) 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3

Page ix To my wife Janet and the memory of our sons Chip and Robin

Page xi Contents Acknowledgments xiii 1. The Great Basin: Birds and Environments 1 2. The Fire of Life 15 3. The Water of Life 39 4. The Diversity of Birds 51 5. Divers 59 6. Specialized Fishermen: Pouch Users and Plungers 73 7. Marshbirds 89 8. Waterfowl 121 9. Shoreline Birds 171 10. Diurnal Birds of Prey 211 11. Nocturnal Birds of Prey 257 12. Upland Game Birds 275 13. Cuckoos 297 14. Hibernators 301 15. Woodpeckers 321 16. Perching Birds 335

Page xii Appendix: Birding in the Great Basin 547 Literature Cited 555 Index 585

Page xiii Acknowledgments Authorship is not a solitary endeavor, and many people have contributed, in one way or another, to the genesis of this book. During my thirty years of studying natural history in the Great Basin, my two most constant field companions were Hugh Mozingo, a peripatetic botanist, and Peter Herlan, the late curator of natural history at the Nevada State Museum. Some of my fieldwork was accomplished in the company of either a physician or a physiologist-John M. Davis or Jack Knoll. During the years of 1965, 1966, and 1967, Jack and I systematically retraced, after the lapse of one hundred years, the footsteps of the great nineteenth-century ornithologist, Robert Ridgway, along the lower reaches of the Truckee River below the Big Bend. I have spent a considerable amount of time either birding or working on bird problems with some of my graduate students-particularly David Salter, Tom Burns, Ron Panik, John Gustafson, Verne Woodbury, and David Worley. In addition, I have exchanged information about Great Basin birds or birded with good people like Ingrid Hanf, Bob and Jessie Alves, John Kartesz, Dick Ankers, Ella Knoll, Al Knorr, John Biewener, Chuck Lawson, Bill Mewaldt, Gary Herron, and others. Over the years I have enjoyed some stimulating teacher-pupil relationships and acquired some new knowledge from students enrolled in my university courses in ornithology. Finally, this book is based not only on my field observations but also on the published observations of legions of keen amateur and professional ornithologists.

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