Details - Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt banding information (050 Recaptures), 1971, PMS banding forms

Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt banding information (050 Recaptures), 1971, PMS banding forms

Title

Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt banding information (050 Recaptures), 1971, PMS banding 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

By

Granger, J. S.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1971

Notes

Field book of banding forms 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 banding forms are dated from may 7 to 26, 1971, and numbered "050- (A)I-II-(B)I. They concern recaptured birds (especially Apus pallidus, or pallid swift, with Turdus merula, or Eurasian blackbird, and Turdus philomelos (song thrush).They show the band number, the name of the bird species, the date and locality of capture and release, and data on sex, age, fat, wing, weight, parasites and molt, with additional remarks.