resources of the Mobile Estuary, Alabama. Alabama Coastal Area Board, 

 Daphne. 



A discussion of the status and location of nesting colonies of coastal 



Alabama. The discussion includes separate sections on the natural 



history of the species surveyed. Contains color photographs of some of 

 the colonies and a map of their locations. 



Kale, H. W., II. 1978. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Vol. 2: Birds. 

 University Presses of Florida, Gainesville. 121 pp. 



A discussion of the rare and endangered birds of Florida, their habitats 

 and status. 



O'Neil, P. E., and M. F. Mettee. 1982. Alabama coastal region ecological 

 characterization. Vol. 2. A synthesis of environmental data. U.S. Fish 

 Wildl. Serv. Biol. Serv . Program FWS/OBS-82/42. 346 pp. 



The report is divided into two sections. The first section contains a 

 detailed description of the geology and geography, hydrology, climate, 

 plant and animal life, and threatened and endangered species of coastal 

 Alabama. The second section presents a conceptual model and supporting 

 text on four natural ecosystems (freshwater, upland terrestrial, 

 estuarine, and Continental Shelf) and two manipulated (urban-industrial 

 and agricultural) systems in Mobile and Baldwin Counties. Also included 

 are individual models for the estuarine ecosystem and one of its 

 components, the marsh. 



Portnoy, J. W. 1977. Nesting colonies of seabirds and wading birds: coastal 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. Biol. Serv. 

 Program FWS/OBS-77/07. 



A survey of 168 colonies of seabirds and wading birds along the 

 Louisiana-Mississippi -Alabama coast was conducted from February to August 

 1976. Colonies were mapped on 1:250,000 scale USGS maps and cataloged by 

 latitude and longitude coordinates. Abundance was tabulated by species, 

 salinity, and habitat type. Nesting chronology of the common breeders 

 was outlined. 



Aerial and ground-based inventory techniques were used. Reliability of 

 the various census and sampling methods for the 26 species in diverse 

 nesting situations was evaluated. Aerial photography produced accurate 

 censuses of incubating great egrets ( Casmerodius albus ) , sandwich terns 

 (Sterna sandvicensi s) , and royal terns ( Sterna maxima [ Thalasseus 

 maximus ]) . Randomly placed 2-m wide bel t transects yiel ded 



representative samples of active heron, egret, and ibis nests in large 

 shrub colonies. 



Portnoy, J. W. 1978. North Gulf of Mexico coastal waterbird colonies: 

 changes in breeding abundance and distribution from 1976 to 1978. 



(unpubl. photocopy). 46 pp 



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