The Midsummer Bird Life of Illinois: A Statistical Study
Forbes, Stephen Alfred
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Title
The Midsummer Bird Life of Illinois: A Statistical Study
Author(s)
Forbes, Stephen Alfred
Issue Date
1913-01
Keyword(s)
Midsummer bird
State Natural History Survey
statistical survey
Abstract
In the course of a statistical survey of the bird population of the State of Illinois, begun with a view to a better knowledge of the significance of birds in the economy of nature, two field observers, A. O. Gross and H. A. Ray, engaged in this work as assistants on the State Natural History Survey, spent virtually a month of the summer period of 1907 in each of the three principal sections of the state - June in southern, July in central, and August in northern, Illinois. Selecting in each section a locality typical for that part of the state, they made regular trips on foot in various directions and to various distances, traveling always thirty yards apart, and noting as they went the species and numbers of all birds flushed by them on a strip fifty yards in width, including likewise those flying across this strip within a hundred yards to their front. They kept record, also, by means of mechanical counters, of the distances traveled over each distinguishable kind of area, commonly marked by the crop which is borne.
Publisher
Champaign : Illinois Natural History Survey
Series/Report Name or Number
Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin; v. 009, no. 06
ISSN
0073-4918
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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