Natural history of the Swainson's warbler. [North American fauna, no. 69]

Washington : United States Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1971., 1971. Fine. vi, 90 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. ; Series: North American fauna, no. 69 ; LCCN: 79-611611 ; OCLC: 208671 ; GovDoc: I 49.30:69; LC: QL155; Dewey: 598.8/72 ; brown paper wrappers ; ex-lib, stamps, date due pocket, label ; 26 illustrations ; "The Swainson's Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii) is one of the least known of songbirds in southern United States. It is unusually appealing to the student of birds because it is hard to find and because its forbidding habitat is challenging. Studies of its life history and ecology were made by the author principally in canebrakes along the Ocmulgee River a few miles south of Macon, Georgia, Arkansas, Virginia, South Carolina, and West Virginia." ; "Although Swainson's Warbler is not as abundant as some of the other southern warblers, in 1968 I knew of at least two areas in which I could find 50 individuals in a single day. One of these was the Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia, the ot her was the Ocmulgee River floodplain forest, 3 to 5 miles southeast of Macon, Georgia, where I first became acquainted with the Swainson's Warbler. When stationed at Camp Wheeler near Macon, 1944046, I began making observations in the extensive riverbottom canebrakes, and I returned to this area for further study in 1963. DUring these 24 years the habitat and number of individuals remained virtually unchanged. When living at Alexandria, Louisiana in 1956 and 1957, I made observations in Bayou Boeuf Swamp, at the edge of that central Louisiana city. In Arkansas in 1967 I obtained information on territorial and nesting behavior in the batture (land between the levee and the river), between the mouth of Bayou Meto and Pendleton Ferry, a long the Arkansas River. Mountain habitats near the city of Charleston and in Nicholas County, West Virginia were visited during the spring of 1965 and 1966. In 1966 I began observations in the Great Dismal Swamp, a few miles south of Norfolk, Virginia. This continues to be my main study." ; slight sunning, else FINE