New Nesting Dates for Some Breeding Birds in North Dakota

Authors

Lawrence D. Igl, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research CenterFollow
Harold A. Kantrud, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Date of this Version

10-31-2003

Comments

Published in The Prairie Naturalist 35(4): December 2003. Published by the Great Plains Natural Science Society http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/pn/prairienat.htm

Abstract

There have been few published nest records for North Dakota (e.g., Haas 1985, Kantrud 1992, Buhl and Shaffer 2000) since Robert E. Stewart published Breeding Birds of North Dakota in 1975. For several species, we report dates for eggs, nestlings, or fledglings that occurred outside the intervals reported by Stewart (1975). For comparison, we provide nesting dates for breeding birds in South Dakota (Tallman et aI. 2002).