Recent Publications in Radar Ornithology    

• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1992. The use of weather radar to monitor long term patterns of trans-Gulf migration in spring. In: J. M. Hagan and D. W. Johnston (eds.) Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds. Pp. 96-100. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1995. Radar Ornithology: Tracking Bird Migration by Radar. Wildbird 9(3): 38-39.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1996. Neotropical migrants : Definition, status, trends, and their relationship to the Gulf of Mexico. pp 18-26. In: Proceedings: 15th Annual Gulf of Mexico Information Transfer Meeting, December 1995. U.S. Dept. Of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study MMS 96-0056. abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. and Kevin R. Russell. 1996. Monitoring purple martin roosts with weather radar. Purple Martin Update 7(1):2-6.
• Leshem, Yossi and Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr. 1996. Proposal to develop a global network to predict bird movements on a real-time and daily scale by using radars. Bird Strike Committee Europe BSCE-23/WP 50. London, May 13-17, 1996.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. and Jesus Haro. 1997. WSR-88D VAD wind profile data influence by bird migration over the southwest United States. NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS WR-244. U.S. Dept. Of Commerce, pp.1-10.
• Russell, Kevin R., David S. Mizrahi and Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr. 1998. Large scale mapping of Purple Martin migratory roosts. Journal of Field Ornithology 69:316-325. abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. and Carroll G. Belser. 1998. Displays of Bird Movements on the WSR-88D: Patterns and Quantification. Weather and Forecasting 13:453-464. abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr., David S. Mizrahi, and Carroll G. Belser. 1998. Bird Migration and Bias of WSR-88D Wind Estimates. Weather and Forecasting 13:465-481. abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. and Kevin R. Russell. 1998. Weather surveillance radar quantification of roosting purple martins in South Carolina. Wildlife Society Bull. 26 (1):5-16.
• Mizrahi, David S., Kevin R. Russell, and Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr. 1998. Mapping Purple Martin Roosts Across the Eastern United States Using National Weather Service Radar, WSR-88D. Purple Martin Update 8(2):26-29.
• Russell, Kevin R. and Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr. 1999. Spatial and temporal dynamics of a purple martin pre-migratory roost. Wilson Bull. abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. and Carroll G. Belser. 1999. Bird Migration in the region of the Gulf of Mexico. The Ostrich. Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress XXII, Durban, South Africa, 16-22 August 1998.  abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. and Carroll G. Belser. 1999. Reply to Black and Donaldson (1999), 'Comments on "Displays of Bird Movements on WSR-88D: Patterns and Quantification."' Weather and Forecasting 14:1041-1042.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr.  1999.  Neotropical migrants and the Gulf of Mexico: The View From Aloft.  In: K. P. Able (ed.).  A Gathering of Angels: The Ecology and Conservation of Migrating Birds, Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. and Carroll G. Belser. 1999.  “Reply” to displays of bird movements on the WSR-88D: Patterns and quantification.  Weather and Forecasting 14:1041-1042
• Renne, I. J., Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr. and Charles A. Gresham.  2000.   Seed dispersal of the Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum (L.) Roxb.) by birds in coastal South Carolina.  American Midland Naturalist 144(1):202-215
• Kilgo, John C., Kathleen E. Franzreb, Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr., Karl V. Miller, and Brian R. Chapman.  2000.  Effects of long-term forest management on a regional avifauna.  Studies in Avian Biology. Vol. 21:81-86
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr., Carroll G. Belser, and Andrew Farnsworth. 2000. How to use Doppler weather-surveillance radar to study hawk migration. In: Bildstein, K. L and D. Klem, Jr. (eds.) Hawkwatching in the Americas, 146-160 pp. HMANA, North Wales, PA, USA Full Paper .PDF
• Mizrahi, David S., Rebecca L. Holberton, and Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr.  2001. Patterns of corticosterone secretion in semipalmated sandpipers at a major spring stopover site. Auk 118:81-93
• Lohr, Stephen, Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr., and John C. Kilgo.  2002.  Avian response to coarse woody debris removal in pine forests. Conservation Biology 16:767-777
• Kilgo, John C., David L. Gartner,  J. Matthew Buffington, Brian R. Chapman, John B. Dunning, Jr., Kathleen E. Franzreb, Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr., Cathryn Greenberg, Douglas J. Levy, Karl V. Miller, and Scott F. Pearson. 2002. A test of a bird-habitat model in South Carolina, USA.  Wildlife Society Bulletin 2002, 30:783-793
• Donovan, T. M., C. J. Beardmore, D. N. Bonter, J. D. Brawn, R. J. Cooper, J. A. Fitzgerald, R. Ford, S. A. Gauthreaux, T. L. George, W. C. Hunter, T. E. Martin, J. Price, K. V. Rosenberg, P. D. Vickery, and T. B. Wigley.  2002.  Priority research needs for the conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds.  Journal of Field Ornithology 73:329-339
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., and Carroll G. Belser.  2003. OVERVIEW: Radar ornithology and biological conservation. Auk 120(2):266-277 Full Paper .PDF
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr., Carroll G. Belser, and Donald Van Blaricom.  2003.  Using a network of WSR88-D weather surveillance radars to define patterns of bird migration at large spatial scales.  In: Berthold, P., E. Gwinner, and  E. Sonnenschein (eds.) Avian Migration. Pp. 335-346. Springer-Verlag, Germany Full Paper .PDF
• Gauthreaux, S.A., Jr.  2003. Review of Robin Doughty and Rob Fergus’s The Purple Martin.  Quarterly Review of Biology 78(2):241-242Y
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., and Carroll G. Belser. 2003.  Bird movements on Doppler weather surveilliance radar . Birding 35(6) : 616-628  Full Paper .PDF
• Farnsworth, Andrew, Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr., and Donald Van Blaricom.  2004. A comparison of nocturnal call counts of migrating birds and reflectivity m easurements on Doppler radar. Journal of Avian Biology 35:365-369 Full Paper .PDF
• Simons, Theodore R., Frank R. Moore, and Sidney A. Gauthreaux.  2004.  Mist netting trans-Gulf migrants at coastal stopover sites: The influence of spatial and temporal ariability on capture data.  In: Ralph, C. John and Erica H. Dunn (Eds.) Monitoring bird populations using mist nests, Studies in Avian Biology No. 29:135-143 Full Paper .PDF
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jenny E. Michi, and Carroll G. Belser.  (2005).  The temporal and spatial structure of the atmosphere and the evolution of bird migration.  In: Greenberg, Russell and Peter P. Marra (Eds.) Birds of Two Worlds: The Ecology and Evolution of Migration. Pp. 182-192.  John Hopkins University Press, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., West Sussex
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., and Carroll G. Belser.  (2005).  Radar ornithology and the conservation of migratory birds.  In: C. John Ralph and Terrell D. Rich, editors. 2005. Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas: Proceedings of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference. 2002 March 20-24; Pp.871-875. 
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