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The WFVZ publishes a free, quarterly newsletter to keep our Members, Board of Directors, Volunteers, Associates, and the community informed of our activities, resources, and events.

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PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE...

The WFVZ publishes three journal serials: Proceedings, Occasional Papers, and Monographs. In addition, we have published various regional checklists of birds, one hardcover book on the Puerto Rican Parrot, and the proceedings of an international conference on shrikes. We are happy to receive submissions from ornithologists for consideration for publication; please call first for details.

The Western Foundation also offers duplicate bird books from our library for sale. We accept check or PayPal payment for these books
(please call for tax and shipping charges before ordering).

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NEW! Monograph #2 on Ivory-billed Woodpeckers by Noel F. Snyder!

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For orders within the U.S., we charge shipping on all WFVZ publications published prior to 2004. For orders outside the U.S., we charge shipping on all publications. California residents will be charged sales tax (7.25%).

For all PayPal orders, please call or e-mail for shipping charges before making purchase (805/388-9944, admin@wfvz.org).

The WFVZ also processes orders for back issues of The Condor for the Cooper Ornithological Society. We will accept payment by check or money order, but we can not accept PayPal payments, for The Condor.

The WFVZ no longer processes orders for Studies in Avian Biology. Please visit the Cooper Ornithological Society website (www.cooper.org) for details, and direct orders to:

John T. Rotenberry
Studies in Avian Biology
Department of Biology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
fax: 951/827-4286
net: John.Rotenberry@ucr.edu

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Orders can be sent by mail to:
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WFVZ Publications List

BOOKS

The parrots of Luquillo: Natural history and conservation of the Puerto Rican Parrot. By Noel F.R. Snyder, James W. Wiley, and Cameron B. Kepler. Hard-bound. Pp. xiii + 384 pp., illus., 8 color pls. + numerous figs. in text. Publ. 1987.

$10.00

 

PROCEEDINGS
Volume I

No. 1

The avifauna of Colima and adjacent Jalisco, Mexico. By. W. J. Schaldach, Jr. Pp. 1-100, 25 April 1963.

$3.00

No. 2

New bat records from the Mexican State of Durango. By Alfred J. Gardner. Pp. 101-106, 30 June 1965.

$2.00

No. 3

Breeding records of birds of the Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico. By J. Stuart Rowley. Pp. 107-204, 20 October 1966.

$6.00

No. 4

Ecological aspects of the food habits of insectivorous bats. By Anthony Ross. Pp. 205-264, 25 May 1967.

$4.00

No. 5

The breeding biology of the Tufted Jay. By Richard S. Crossin. Pp. 265-300, 31 October 1967.

$5.00

No. 6

Ecological aspects of the food habits of insectivorous screech-owls. By Anthony Ross. Pp. 301-344, 31 August 1969.

$4.00

Volume 2

No. 1

The breeding biology of the Knot. By William Hobson and The breeding of the knot on Vrangelya (Wrangel) Island, Siberia: Comparative Remarks. By V. E. Flint. Pp. 1-32, January 1972.

$5.00

No. 2

Herpetofauna of the lower Colorado river: Davis Dam to the Mexican border. By Laurie J. Vitt and Robert D. Ohmart. Pp. 33-72, 19 September 1978.

$6.00

No. 3

Breeding records of land birds in Oaxaca, Mexico. By J. Stuart Rowley. Pp. 73-224, 10 January 1984.

$12.00

No. 4

The parasitic cowbirds and their hosts. By Herbert Friedmann and Lloyd F. Kiff. Pp. 225-304, 16 May 1985.

$10.00

Volume 3

No. 1

Occupation of urban habitats by birds in Papua New Guinea. By Harry L. Bell. Pp. 1-48, 24 February 1986. Includes checklist of birds of Sabah, Malaysia. By Charles M. Francis. January 1986.

$7.00

No. 2

Type localities of birds described in Guatemala. By Robert W. Dickerman. Pp. 49-108, 30 July 1987.

$9.00

No. 3

Status of uncommon and previously unreported birds of El Salvador. By Walter A. Thurber, J. Francisco Serrano, Alfonso Sermeño, and Maunel Benitez. Pp. 109-293, 10 December 1987.

$12.00

No. 4

Hawks and owls of the world: a distributional and taxanomic list. By Dean Amadon and John Bull, with the genus Otus by Joe T. Marshall and Ben F. King. Pp. 294-357, 28 July 1988.

$10.00

Volume 4

No. 1

Distribution of amphibians and reptiles in Guatemala and Belize. By Jonathan A. Campbell and Jay P. Vannini. Pp. 1-21, 14 July 1989.

$5.00

No. 2

Natural history and management of the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike. By Thomas A. Scott and Michael L. Morrison. Pp. 23-60, 22 June 1990.

$5.00

No. 3

Annotated check-list of the birds of East Africa. By Lester L. Short, Jennifer F. M. Horne, and Cecilia Muringo-Gichuki. Pp. 61-246, 22 June 1990. Includes field check-list of the birds of East Africa. By Lester L. Short, Jennifer F. M. Horne, and Cecilia Muringo-Gichuki. June 1990.

$20.00

No. 4

Molt of the genus Spizella (Passeriformes, Emberizidae) in relation to ecological factors affecting plumage wear. By Ernest J. Willoughby. Pp. 247-286, 30 December 1991.

$5.00

No. 5

On the biology of five species of swifts (Apodidae, Cypseloidinae) in Costa Rica. By Manuel Marín A. and F. Gary Stiles. Pp. 287-351, 31 March 1992.

$15.00

Volume 5

No. 1

Status and conservation of the Marbled Murrelet in North America. By Harry R. Carter and Michael L. Morrison. Pp. 1-134, 13 October 1992.

$20.00

No. 2

Natural history of the Unicolored Jay in Chiapas, Mexico. By Tom Webber and Jerram L. Brown. Pp. 135-160, 13 January 1994.

$5.00

No. 3

Trends in geographic variation of Cooper's Hawk and Northern Goshawk in North America: A miultivariate analysis. By Wayne H. Whaley and Clayton M. White. Pp 161-209, 7 February 1994.

$8.00

No. 4

The biology and status of the Long-billed Corella in Australia. By W. B. Emison, C. M. Beardsell, and I. D. Tembly. Pp. 211-247, May 1994.

$7.00

Volume 6

No. 1

Shrikes (Laniidae) of the world: Biology and conservation. Edited by Reuven Yosef and Fred E. Lohrer. Pp. 1-343, 1995.

$25.00

No. 2

Books on hawks and owls: an annotated bibliography. By Richard R. Olendorff, Dean Amadon, and Saul Frank. Pp. 1-89, November 1995.

$10.00

Volume 7

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A bibliography of ornithology in the West Indies. By James W. Wiley. Pp. 1-817, May 2000

$42.50

Volume 8

No. 1

Biometrics of birds throughout the Greater Caribbean Basin. By Wayne J. Arendt, John Faaborg, George E. Wallace, and Orlando H. Garrido. Pp. 1-33 + CD, 2004
(Volume includes morphometrics table and individual species files on CD - Includes Adobe Reader)

$25.00

 

MONOGRAPHS

Parallel variation in North and Middle American screech owls. By Joe T. Marshall, Jr. 72pp., 10 August 1967.

$10.00

An alternative hypothesis for the cause of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's decline. By Noel F.R. Snyder. Edited by Linnea Hall. Fall 2007.

$25.00

 

OCCASIONAL PAPERS

No. 1

Geographic variation in four species of birds in Oaxaca, Mexico. By J. Stuart Rowley. 10 pp., 30 June 1968.

$2.00

No. 2

Harvest Mice (Genus Reithrodontomys) of Nicaragua. By J. Knox Jones, Jr. and Hugh H. Genoways. 16 pp., 20 July 1970.

$2.50

No. 3

Two new subspecies of birds from Guatemala. By Robert W. Dickerman. 6 pp., 12 January 1987.

$2.00

No. 4

Taxanomic notes on Singing Quail (Genus Dactylortyx) from western and southern Mexico. By Richard C. Banks. 6 pp., 18 February 1987.

$2.00

No. 5

Additional records of birds from Oaxaca, Mexico. By Kenneth C. Parkes. 13 pp., 18 December 1990.

$3.00

No. 6 & 7

Two new species of Myrsidea from hummingbirds and A new genus and four new species of chewing lice from hummingbirds. By Robert C. Dalgleish and Roger D. Price. 18 pp., 13 September 2002.

$10.00

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