Details - Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Cyprus specimens (Q-1590 to Q-2198b), Spring 1968, PMS laboratory forms

Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Cyprus specimens (Q-1590 to Q-2198b), Spring 1968, PMS laboratory forms

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Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Cyprus specimens (Q-1590 to Q-2198b), Spring 1968, PMS laboratory forms

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Contained In: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973

Series: SIA Acc. 16-361

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey

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Book

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Archival material

Publication info

1968

Notes

Field book (divided in two folders for conservation purposes) of laboratory forms, part of the field notes for the survey records on migratory birds specimens collected in Cyprus for the Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey.From the finding aid (SIA RU000435): "The Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey (PMS), a survey of migratory birds, their ectoparasites and the viruses they carry, was conducted in the eastern Mediterranean from 1966 to 1971. The primary PMS operation site was in northern Egypt. Surveys were also conducted in Cyprus and Israel. The PMS involved scientists of the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval Medical Research Unit, and Yale University, and was funded by the Army Research Office, the Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program, and the Smithsonian Research Foundation. George E. Watson, Chairman, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, and Curator, Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, was Principal Investigator". Surveys were also conducted in Uganda.The laboratory forms are numbered Q-1590 to Q-2189b, dated from March 11, 1968 to March 23, 1968. They provide the name of the bird species, the dates the birds were processed and collected, the locality, the sex, type of examination (dissection, plumage, soft parts), the presence of molting, the weight, fat, the way the bird was disposed of (skin, skelton, alcoholic, discarded), the preparator's name or initials, the presence of ectoparasites and type of examination, data on blood tests for the presence of viruses, and additional remarks.Not all parts of each form are filled: the names of preparators, for instance, do not appear.