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Bibliography of Radar Ornithology

• Able, Ken P. 1970. A radar study of the altitude of nocturnal passerine migration. Bird-Banding 41: 282-290.
• Able, Ken P. 1972. Fall migration in coastal Louisiana and the evolution of migration patterns in the gulf region. Wilson Bulletin 84: 231-243.
• Bruderer, Bruno. 1971. Radarbeobachtungen über den Frühlingszug im Schweizerischen Mittelland. Der Ornithologische Beobach 63: 89-158.
• Buurma, L. S. 1995. Long-range surveillance radars as indicators of bird numbers aloft. Israel Zoology 41: 221-236.
• Eastwood, E., G. A. Isted, and G. C. Rider. 1962. Radar ring angels and the roosting movements of starlings. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 156: 242-267.
• Eastwood, E. 1967. Radar Ornithology. Methuen, 278 pp.
• Edwards, J. and E. W. Houghton 1959. Radar echoes area polar diagrams of birds. Nature 184: 1059.
• Evans, T. R. and L. C. Drickamer. 1994. Flight speeds of birds determined using Doppler radar. Wilson Bulletin 106: 154-156.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1969. A portable ceilometer technique for studying low-level nocturnal migration. Bird-Banding 40: 309-320.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1970. Weather radar quantification of bird migration. BioScience 20: 17-20.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1971. A radar and direct visual study of passerine spring migration in southern Louisiana. Auk 88: 343-365.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1972. Behavioral responses of migrating birds to daylight and darkness: A radar and direct visual study. Wilson Bulletin. 84: 136-148.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1980. Direct visual and radar methods for the detection, quantification, and prediction of bird migration. Special publication No. 2. Department of Zoology, Clemson University, Clemson,SC, 67 pp.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1991. The flight behavior of migrating birds in changing wind fields: Radar and visual analyses. American Zoologist 31: 187-204.
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1992. The use of weather radar to monitor long term patterns of trans-Gulf migration in spring. in: Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds. J.M. Hagan and D.W. Johnston, Eds. Pp. 96-100. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.  abstract
• Gauthreaux, Sidney A., Jr. 1995. Radar Ornithology: Tracking Bird Migration by Radar. Wildbird 9: 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: 2-6.
• 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.
• 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 Bulletin 26 (1):5-16.
• 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.
• Harper, W. G. 1959. Roosting movements of birds and migration departures as seen by radar. Ibis 101: 201-208.
• Jungbluth, Karl 1993. Effects of migrating birdson wind speeds determined by the WSR-88D and wind profiler networks. National Severe Storms Forecast Center Operational Notes, Nov. 1-3, 12 pp.
• Jungbluth, Karl, J. Bellos, and M. Schumacher. 1995. Velocity contamination of WSR-88D and wind profiler data due to migrating birds. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 27th Conference on Radar Meteorology Preprints: 666-668.
• Lack, David and G.C. Varley. 1945. Detection of birds by radar. Nature 156: 446.
• Larkin, Ron 1984: The potential of the nexrad radar system for warning of bird hazards. Proceedings: Wildlife Hazards to Aircraft Conference and Workshop, Charleston, SC, FAA, 369-379.
• Larkin, Ron 1991: Sensitivity of NEXRAD algorithms to echoes from birds and insects. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 25th Int. Conf. on Radar Meteorology Preprints: 203-205.
• 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.  abstract
• Ligda, M. G. 1958. Radar observations of Redwing Blackbird flights. Texas Journal of Science 10: 255.
• Lowery, George H., Jr. 1951. A quantitative study of the nocturnal migration of birds. Univ. of Kansas Publ. Museum of Natural History 3: 361-472.
• Lowery, George H., Jr. and R.J. Newman 1955. Direct studies of nocturnal bird migration. Recent Studies in Avian Biology, A. Wolfson, Ed., Univ. of Illinois Press: 238-263.
• 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 8:26-29.
• Nisbet, I.C.T. 1963. Quantitative study of migration with 23-centimetre radar. Ibis 105: 435-460.
• O'Bannon, Tim 1995. Anomalous WSR-88D wind profiles-Migrating birds? Amer. Meteor. Soc. 27th Conf on Radar Meteorology Preprints: 663-665.
• 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
• Russell, Kevin R. and Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr. 1999. Spatial and temporal dynamics of a purple martin pre-migratory roost. Wilson Bulletin  abstract
• Schaefer, G. W. 1976: Radar observations of insect flight. in: Insect Flight, R. C. Rainey, Ed., Blackwell, 157-197.
• Wilczak, J. M., R.G. Strauch, F.M. Ralph, B.L. Weber, D.A. Merritt, J.R. Jordan, D.E. Wolfe, L.K. Lewis, D.B. Wuertz, J.E. Gaynor, S.A. McLaughlin, R.R. Rogers, A.C. Riddle, and T.S. Dye. 1995. Contamination of wind profiler data by migrating birds- Characteristics of corrupted data and potential solutions. J. Atmos. Oceanic Techno. 12: 449-467.

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