SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM LISTING FOR THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

Auk, The, Jul 2004

Phylogeography of the Olive Sunbird throughout Africa. RAURI C. K. BOWIE, Percy FitzPatrick Inst., Univ. Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa and Dept. Zool., Univ. Stellenbosch, Matieland, JON FJELDSÅ, Zool. Mus., Univ. Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, SHANNON J. HACKETT, Zool. Dept. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, IL, and TIMOTHY M. CROWE, Percy FitzPatrick Inst.

Molt in Ammodramus sparrows: differences among species, sexes and sites. CARINA GJERDRUM, CHRIS ELPHICK and MARGARET RUBEGA, Ecol., Evol. Biol., Univ. Connecticut, Storrs CT.

Point counts accurately reflect sparrow abundance, but not breeding success. CHRIS ELPHICK, CARINA GJERDRUM, MARGARET RUBEGA, Ecol., Evol. Biol., Univ. Connecticut, Storrs CT, and PATRICK COMINS, Audubon Connecticut, Southbury, CT.

Surface tension transport in Red Phalaropes. MOIRA K. RAY and MARGARET A. RUBEGA, Dept. Ecol. & Evol. Biol., Univ. Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

What do students learn about birds when they study ornithology? MARGARET A. RUBEGA, Dept. Ecol. & Evol. Biol., Univ. Connecticut, Storrs, CT, and JAMES S. BOSTER, Dept. Anth., Univ. Connecticut. Female preferences and the effect of ambient light on the display behavior of male Ilicurinii Manakins (Pipridae). MARINA ANCIÃES, Nat. Hist. Mus., Univ. Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Lack of response to Brown-headed Cowbirds at the nest by female Field Sparrows in an unparasitized northeast Pennsylvania population. MICHAEL CAREY, Dept. Biol., Univ. Scranton, Scranton, PA.

Bird abundance at feeders increases with decreasing distance to cover and increasing distance from housing. DAVID JOSEPH HORN, Dept. Biol., Aurora Univ., Aurora, IL.

* A test of sex ratio biasing in the White-throated Magpie-Jay, a cooperative breeder with female helpers. ELENA C. BERG, Center Animal Behav., Univ. California, Davis, CA.

Cerulean Warbler breeding biology. KIRK ROTH and KAMAL ISLAM, Dept. Biol., Ball State Univ., Muncie, IN.

Within-season prevalence of extra-pair young in broods of double-brooded and mate-faithful Eastern Phoebes. AMANDA S. BEHELER and OLIN E. RHODES, Jr., Dept. For. & Nat. Res., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN.

Cognitive models of Western Scrub-Jay foraging behavior. TOM A. LANGEN, Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY, and BARNEY LUTTBEG, Univ. California - Davis, Davis, CA.

The cost of polygyny in the Tree Swallow. VALENTINA FERRETTI, PETER H. WREGE and DAVID W. WINKLER, Dept. Ecol. & Evol. Biol., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.

Causes and consequences of divorce in the Tree Swallow. PAULO E. LLAMBÍAS, PETER H. WREGE and DAVID W. WINKLER, Dept. Ecol. & Evol. Biol., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.

* Breeding, foraging behavior and habitat characteristics of the Scaly Ground-Roller of Madagascar. JEAN E. RAKOTOARISOA, Dept. Biol. Sci., Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL and The Peregrine Fund, Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Do flushing, capture, and blood-sampling affect return rate of nesting female Wood Thrushes? KELLY A. PERKINS, ROLAND ROTH, JACOB L. BOWMAN and JORDAN GREEN, Dept. Entomol. & Wildl. Ecol., Univ. Delaware, Newark, DE.