Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt banding information (040-02501 to 040-02543), 1968, PMS banding forms

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Contained In: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973
Series: SIA Acc. 16-361
Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1968

Notes

Field book of banding forms for field notes that are survey records on migratory birds specimens collected in Egypt for the Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey. From the finding aid (SIA RU000435): "The Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey (PMS), a survey of migratory birds, their ectoparasites and the viruses they carry, was conducted in the eastern Mediterranean from 1966 to 1971. The primary PMS operation site was in northern Egypt. Surveys were also conducted in Cyprus and Israel. The PMS involved scientists of the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval Medical Research Unit, and Yale University, and was funded by the Army Research Office, the Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program, and the Smithsonian Research Foundation. George E. Watson, Chairman, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, and Curator, Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, was Principal Investigator". Surveys were also conducted in Uganda. There are five forms per leaf; they show the name of the bird species, the band number, the date and locality of capture and release, and data on sex as gathered from dissection, plumage, soft parts or other methods, on age and method of its finding (skull, plumage, soft parts, etc.), on weight, fat, molt and additional remarks.These banding forms cover only September 4, 1968 and are related to one species, Lanius collurio (red-backed shrike); they are numbered 040-02501 to 040-02543.

Subjects

Bird banding , Birds--Egypt , Birds--Migration , Birds--Parasites , Egypt , Field notes , National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Palearct , Ornithology , Red-backed shrike

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.139670