Details - Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt specimens (5480 to 6070), 1968, PMS laboratory forms

Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt specimens (5480 to 6070), 1968, PMS laboratory forms

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Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt specimens (5480 to 6070), 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

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Field book (divided in two folders for conservation purposes) of forms for field notes that are survey records on migratory birds specimens collected in Egypt 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 forms show the name of the bird species, the band number, the date and locality of capture and release, and data on sex as gathered from dissection, plumage, soft parts or other methods, on age and method of its finding (skull, plumage, soft parts, etc.), on weight, fat, molt, way of disposition (skin, skeleton, alcoholic, discarded, etc.), presence of parasites, blood tests, and additional remarks. The forms are numbered 5480 to 6070 and dated from September 16 to November 4, 1968.