Title
Tinamus major birds (Great tinamou), Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1960
Related Titles
Contained In:
Martin H. Moynihan Papers, 1952-1996
Series:
SIA Acc. 01-096
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Moynihan, M.
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1960
Notes
The notes document M. Moynihan's observations of Tinamus major birds (Great tinamou), February - August, 1960. Pages are numbered. Entries are headed with date, location, and type. Entries describe extended observations of behavior, appearance, and bird calls of wild and captive birds, their young, with referenced to time of day and time of hatching, comparisons to birds raised in captivity, behavior during feeding. Often birds are described in pairs. Includes notes that are separated from the general entries, notations indicated by pattern, and illustrations of birds that augment the text. Includes illustrations of birds augmenting text and notations are indicated by pattern. Locations include Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
Subjects
Animal behavior
,
Barro Colorado
,
Ethology
,
Field notes
,
Ornithology
,
Panama
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.121741
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