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Adult Franklin's Gulls, Delta-Portage la Prairie, Southern Manitoba, Canada, 1954-1955

by: Moynihan, M

Publication date: 1954

Topics: Animal behavior, Ornithology, Ethology

Collection: biodiversity; sifieldbooks

Contributor: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Language: English

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The notes document M. Moynihan's observations of adult Franklin's Gulls, 1954-1955. Includes typed and handwritten materials. Observations describe behavior of individual and groups of birds, with extensive notes on their calls and songs, and recording sex, weather, time of day of observation, and counts of bird behaviors often related hostility. Includes, illustrations of birds, indexes of aerial and non-aerial behavior with page numbers and topic, and notations indicated by pattern. Locations include Delta-Portage la Prairie, Southern Manitoba, Canada

Abstract: The notes document M. Moynihan"s observations of adult Franklin"s Gulls, 1954-1955. Includes typed and handwritten materials. Observations describe behavior of individual and groups of birds, with extensive notes on their calls and songs, and recording sex, weather, time of day of observation, and counts of bird behaviors often related hostility. Includes, illustrations of birds, indexes of aerial and non-aerial behavior with page numbers and topic, and notations indicated by pattern. Locations include Delta-Portage la Prairie, Southern Manitoba, Canada.