Current Ornithology

This edited series has three principal goals. The first is to provide information in a relatively concise way for researchers needing an over­ view of specific disciplines. The second is to provide an update on specific schools of thought, bringing togeth

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Current Ornithology Editorial Board

George F. Barrowclough, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York

Robert E. Ricklefs, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Stephen I. Rothstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, California Ralph W. Schreiber, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California

John A. Wiens, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

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CURRENT ORNITHOLOGY VOLUME 6 Edited by

DENNIS M. POWER

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Santa Barbara, California

Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC

The L i b r a r y of Congress cataloged the first volume of this title as follows: Current o r n i t h o l o g y . - V o l . 1 N e w York: Plenum Press, C1983v.: i l l . ; 24 c m . Annual. Editor: R i c h a r d F. Johnston. ISSN 0742-390X = C u r r e n t ornithology. 1. Ornithology—Periodicals. I. Johnston, Richard F. QL671.C87 598'.05-dcl9 [8509]

ISBN 978-1-4757-9920-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-9918-7

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CONTRIBUTORS

RANDALL BREITWISCH, Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124. Present address: Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469 GREGORY S. BUTCHER, Department of Zoology and Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195. Present address: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York 14850 PAUL KERLINGER, Cape May Bird Observatory, Cape May Point, New Jersey 08212 GABOR 1. LOVEI, Laboratory of Functional Ecology, Department of Zoology, Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H-1525 Hungary FRANK R. MOORE, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-5018 SIEVERT ROHWER, Department of Zoology and Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 NOEL F. R. SNYDER, Portal, Arizona 85632 HELEN A. SNYDER, Portal, Arizona 85632 JERRY A. WALDVOGEL, Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 v

PREFACE

This edited series has three principal goals. The first is to provide information in a relatively concise way for researchers needing an overview of specific disciplines. The second is to provide an update on specific schools of thought, bringing together ideas fro