Contents
Salt Water Tolerance and the Distribution of South San Francisco Bay Song Sparrows
Michael P. Basham and L. Richard Mewaldt
Short-term Dynamics of Cavity-nesting Bird Communities in Disjunct Floodplain Habitats
Kevin J. Gutzwiller and Stanley H. Anderson
The Impact of Weather on Kingbird Foraging Behavior
Michael T. Murphy
Behavioral Associations of Song Types during Aggressive Interactions among Male Yellow-rumped Caciques
Jill M. Trainer
Composition and Temporal Variation of Flocks in the Sierra Nevada
Michael L. Morrison, Kimberly A. With, Irene C. Timossi, and Kathleen A. Milne
Syllable Sharing among North American Populations of the Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Anthony L. Lang and Jon C. Barlow
Breeding Populations of the Wood Stork in the Southeastern United States
John C. Ogden, Donald A. Mccrimmon Jr., G. Thomas Bancroft, and Barbara W. Patty
Molts of the Rock Shag and New Interpretations of the Plumage Sequence
Pamela C. Rasmussen
Attendants at Tree Swallow Nests. Iii. Parental Responses to Live and Stuffed-model Attendants
Michael P. Lombardo
Ecological Fitting: Use of Floral Nectar in Heliconia Stilesii Daniels by Three Species of Hermit Hummingbirds
Frank B. Gill
Distribution, Status, and Origin of Water Pipits Breeding in California
John H. Miller and Michael T. Green
Sexual Dimorphism in Egg Size and Implications Regarding Facultative Manipulation of Sex in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows
Paul S. Mead, Martin L. Morton, and Brian E. Fish
Nest-site Selection of the American Coot in the Aspen Parklands of Saskatchewan
James M. Sutherland and William J. Maher
Nonrandom Nest-site Selection in Evening Grosbeaks
Marc Bekoff, Abby Caul Scott, and Douglas A. Conner
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Diet in the Cape Cormorant Off Southern Africa
David Cameron Duffy, Rory Paul Wilson, and Marie Pierre Wilson
Cooperative Breeding in Azure-winged Magpies, Cyanopica Cyana, Living in a Region of Heavy Snowfall
Shigemoto Komeda, Satoshi Yamagishi, and Masahiro Fujioka
The Roles of Thermal Environment and Predation in Habitat Choice in the California Gull
Joseph R. Jehl Jr. and Sheila A. Mahoney
Ventilated Capsule Measurements of Cutaneous Evaporation in Mourning Doves
Marcus D. Webster and Marvin H. Bernstein
Latent Population Responses of Summer Birds to a Catastrophic, Climatological Event
Fritz L. Knope and James A. Sedgwick
Book Reviews
Marcy F. Lawton
Nominees for Board of Directors
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Reviewers for Volume 89
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Index to Volume 89
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Covers
Back Matter (PDF)
The Condor
Front Matter (PDF)
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Short Communications
Responses of Least Flycatchers to Experimental Inter-and Intraspecific Brood Parasitism
James V. Briskie and Spencer G. Sealy
Bill-sweeping Behavior of a Mexican Chickadee
Millicent S. Ficken and Robert W. Ficken
Female Floaters and Nonbreeding Secondary Females in Herring Gulls
Gary W. Shugart, Mary A. Fitch, and Glen A. Fox
The Hunting Behavior of Black-shouldered Kites (elanus Caeruleus Leucurus) in Central Chile
Fabian M. Jaksic, Ricardo Rozzi, Antonieta Labra, and Jaime E. Jimenez
Sexually Mosaic Plumage in a Female American Kestrel
Jimmie R. Parrish, Joann Stoddard, and Clayton M. White
Function of Frequency-shifted Songs of Black-capped Chickadees
Brad G. Hill and M. Ross Lein
Philopatry, Mate and Nest-site Fidelity in the Brown Skuas of Anvers Island, Antarctica
David F. Parmelee and Pamela J. Pietz
Nesting Phenology of Landbirds in Baja California
T. Luke George
Western Gulls as a Possible Predator of California Sea Lion Pups
David Aurioles and Jorge Llinas
Techniques for Differentiating Pellets of Short-eared Owls and Northern Harriers
Denver W. Holt, L. Jack Lyon, and Robert Hale
Dominance, Foraging and Predation Risk in the Tufted Titmouse
Thomas A. Waite and Thomas C. Grubb Jr.
Colony Departure of Family Groups of Ancient Murrelets
Ian L. Jones, J. Bruce Falls, and Anthony J. Gaston