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Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal Migration

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Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal Migration

Harrison Bruce Tordoff and Robert Morrow Mengel

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One October night in 1954, migrating birds died in numbers at Topeka, and Harrison Tordoff turned the accident into science. He examines the species killed, the randomness of the sample, and what the toll reveals about migration, sex, age, and molt. A sober, illuminating study of birds moving unseen through the dark.

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16 chapters

  1. 1Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal Migration
  2. 2Contents
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Accidents to Migrating Birds in early October, 1954
  5. 5Acknowledgments
  6. 6Notes on the Species Killed at Topeka
  7. 7Randomness of the Sample
  8. 8Number of Migrants
  9. 9Differential Migration of Sex- and Age-classes
  10. 10Molt in Relation to Migration
  11. 11Size Differences according to Sex and Age
  12. 12Computations of Longevity and Survival
  13. 13Processing of Samples
  14. 14Summary
  15. 15Literature Cited
  16. 16Transcriber's Notes:
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