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MONTHLY WILDLIFE RESEARCH LETTER 
Illinois Federal Aid Project W- 66 -R 
Department of Conservation and Naturai History Survey, Cooperating 
Glen C. Sanderson and Helen C. Schultz, Editors 
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Urbana, Illinois 
January, I 978 
Vol. 21, No. 1 
_Manipulation of Pheasant Hab i tat 
R* E* Warner 
For the second consecutive vear sepHpri •a . 
Management Unit (FCMU) and Ford County Graded Roais?des°fFCGRI^ C ° Unty 
for nests of both pheasants and songbirds. AlI roadsTde ? ^ Wer£ searched 
once in mid-June and again in mid-July. The June and ?V “f* searched 
a total of 55 songbird nests on the 67 FCW plo« (it t llllV indicated 
1.3 per acre. In 1976 the average was 1.2 nests per acre? ’ aVera9e ° f 
per a??:: C a e s S u : s n t ^ 7 7 onthe 9 OPCGRp,o t s( 5 7 .7 acres) recorded ,26 nests, 2.2 
found in 1976 . y 9reater avera 9 e dens.ty than the 1 nest per acre 
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nests were unidentified, and the other si* ' J rad ' wln 9 ed blackbirds. Three 
a vesper sparrow, and a meadowlark. 6 f ° U " d t0 be nests of “ickcissels, 
practices are^enefIci^o^opJ? It ions 'of ® Xl ? tin9 roadside management 
However, the breedinq behavior and h-ni s ° n 9 b»rds in east-central Illinois. 
vegetation (brome-a 1 fa 1 fa and other suitable sds^T 15 [ n . mana ^ ed roadside 
should be intensively studied The^e ct a- P Cies< and ,n nea rby cover types 
Of territorial behavio?, the ?,se o? ?, r° U ' d advance our “"^standing 
of nesting, and the success of nests and k vanous s P ecie s> the phenology 
nature would enable bi??? q ?s?s to 1 flad 9 .''ngs. Information of this 
songbirds and pheasants. 9 9 roadsides more effectively for both 
— ° lo 3¥ . fni Management of Squirrels 
C. M. Nixon, 
L. P. Hansen 
Supplemental feedinq of sauirrel*; (ICll -.ii • , 
ear corn or whole kernel corn in nr ^ involves placing either whole 
easy to obtain. ,t may b? o?ol £ ° V° re5t ' Corn is cheap and 
sharecropping agreement. Also, squirrels seem t ° r ? St h a ? d left as part of a 
eat some corn even when tree seed crops ?re ?bunlm n ? S food i they wU I 
food supplement for squirrels? P undant. But, is corn an adequate 
