C. Davison Ankney
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Claude Davison Ankney was an American-Canadian zoologist and avian ecologist. He was a professor at the University of Western Ontario from 1974 until he retired from there in 2002. Academically, he was known for his work on the life history strategies of various birds, especially waterfowl. He was also known for his defense of, and activism for, environmental conservation.
C. Davison Ankney's Published Works
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- Ecology and Management of Breeding Waterfowl (1992) (661)
- The effect of apparatus, extraction time, and solvent type on lipid extractions of snow geese (1985) (415)
- An embarrassment of riches : Too many geese (1996) (230)
- Brain size and cognitive ability: Correlations with age, sex, social class, and race (1996) (217)
- NUTRIENT RESERVES AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF FEMALE LESSER SNOW GEESE (2003) (215)
- Whole Brain Size and General Mental Ability: A Review (2009) (212)
- Egg Weight, Survival, and Growth of Lesser Snow Goose Goslings (1980) (174)
- MITOCHONDRIAL GENE TREES AND THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP OF MALLARD AND BLACK DUCKS (1990) (173)
- Nutrient reserve dynamics of breeding and molting brant (1984) (165)
- Body Size, Activity Budgets, and Diets of Sea Ducks Wintering in Newfoundland (1986) (161)
- Sex differences in relative brain size: The mismeasure of woman, too? (1992) (145)
- MATRIARCHAL POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE IN AN AVIAN SPECIES WITH FEMALE NATAL PHILOPATRY (1992) (141)
- Bioenergetics of Breeding Northern Shovelers: Diet, Nutrient Reserves, Clutch Size, and Incubation (1988) (133)
- Sources of Variation in Growth of Tree Swallows (1986) (132)
- Prey Size Selection by Tree Swallows (1985) (119)
- PREDATION OF ZEBRA MUSSELS BY DIVING DUCKS: AN EXCLOSURE STUDY' (1994) (118)
- NUTRIENT-RESERVE DYNAMICS OF BREEDING LESSER SCAUP: A TEST OF COMPETING HYPOTHESES (1991) (115)
- The role of nutrient reserves in limiting waterfowl reproduction (1991) (114)
- Nutrient reserves and the energetics of reproduction in American coots (1985) (105)
- Sex Ratio Varies with Egg Sequence in Lesser Snow Geese (1982) (95)
- The effect of drying temperature on extraction of petroleum ether soluble fats of small birds and mammals (1982) (84)
- Winter Diets and Nutrition of Midcontinental Lesser Snow Geese (1988) (79)
- Feeding and Digestive Organ Size in Breeding Lesser Snow Geese (1977) (79)
- Condition and vulnerability to hunting among mallards staging at Lake St Clair, Ontario (1993) (79)
- Nutrient-Reserve Dynamics and Diet of Breeding Female Gadwalls (1991) (77)
- The influence of male dominance on social interactions in black ducks and mallards (1988) (76)
- Nutrient reserve dynamics of lesser snow geese staging at James Bay, Ontario (1979) (70)
- Spring habitat use and diets of midcontinent adult lesser snow geese (1992) (70)
- Effects of dietary fiber and diet diversity on digestive organs of captive Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) (1988) (70)
- Low genic variation between Black Ducks and Mallards (1986) (65)
- The Laying Cycle of Brown-Headed Cowbirds: Passerine Chickens? (1983) (63)
- EGG-EATING BY FEMALE BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS (1992) (61)
- Age-related variation in the nutrient reserves of breeding American Coots (Fulica americana) (1987) (61)
- POPULATION ECOLOGY AND HARVEST OF THE AMERICAN BLACK DUCK: A REVIEW (1989) (58)
- Variation in digestive organ size among five species of diving ducks (Aythya spp.) (1985) (57)
- Agonistic Behavior and Dominance Relationships among Lesser Snow Geese during Winter and Spring Migration (1990) (56)
- Nutrition of Breeding Female Ruddy Ducks: The Role of Nutrient Reserves (1994) (52)
- Habitat use by Mallards and American black ducks breeding in central Ontario (1994) (50)
- An Explanation of Egg-Weight Variation in the Lesser Snow Goose (1976) (50)
- The use of nutrient reserves by breeding male lesser snow geese Chen caerulescens caerulescens. (1977) (48)
- ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON BODY SIZE OF CANADA GEESE (1998) (47)
- Bioenergetics of egg production by female house sparrows (1986) (45)
- Influence of body size and condition on harvest and survival of juvenile Canada geese (2003) (44)
- Seasonal Abundance and Species Richness of Birds in Common Reed Habitats in Lake Erie (2010) (42)
- Variation in weight and composition of brown-headed cowbird eggs (1985) (42)
- Egg composition of American Coots in relation to habitat, year, laying date, clutch size, and supplemental feeding (1991) (39)
- Nutrient reserves of breeding Ring-necked Ducks (Aythya collaris) (1990) (37)
- Hatching asynchrony and food allocation within broods of Pied-billed Grebes, Podilymbus podiceps (1987) (36)
- Nutrient dynamics and constraints on the pre-laying exodus of High Arctic northern fulmars (2008) (34)
- Changes in total body calcium and diet of breeding house sparrows (1995) (34)
- Patterns of Habitat Use by Sea Ducks Wintering in Southeastern Newfoundland (1988) (34)
- Body size and fecundity in Lesser Snow Geese. Comment and response (1990) (30)
- DOES THE WING MOLT CAUSE NUTRITIONAL STRESS IN LESSER SNOW GEESE ? (2003) (28)
- Foraging ecology of Great Black-backed Gulls during brood-rearing in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick (2004) (28)
- Influence of migrant tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus) and Canada geese (Branta canadensis) on aquatic vegetation at Long Point, Lake Erie, Ontario (2006) (27)
- Refined Methods for Assessment of Nutrient Reserve Use and Regulation of Clutch Size (1997) (27)
- Seasonal Influence on the Strategies of Growth and Development of Canvasback and Lesser Scaup Ducklings (1984) (26)
- Are brightly coloured male ducks selectively shot by duck hunters (1991) (24)
- Consumption of Zebra Mussels Dreissena polymorpha by diving ducks in Lakes Erie and St. Clair (1994) (24)
- RELATIONSHIP OF MALLARD AND BLACK DUCKS (1990) (24)
- Neckbands Contribute to Starvation in Female Lesser Snow Geese (1975) (22)
- Assortative Mating by Brant (1983) (22)
- Size matters: a review and new analyses of racial differences in cranial capacity and intelligence that refute Kamin and Omari (2000) (22)
- Could the Blood Parasite Leucocytozoon Deter Mallard Range Expansion (1996) (22)
- Size of digestive organs in breeding Brown-headed Cowbirds, Molothrus ater, relative to diet (1988) (21)
- The Evolution of Brain Size and Intelligence (2007) (21)
- Body weight and lipid reserves of American Black Ducks and Mallards during autumn (1990) (21)
- Increasing mallards, decreasing American black ducks ― no evidence for cause and effect (a comment). Reply (1989) (20)
- Costs and rates of egg formation in ruddy ducks (1994) (20)
- Egg size as a predictor of nutrient composition of eggs and neonates of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis interior) and Lesser Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) (2002) (20)
- VARIATION IN INCUBATION PATTERNS OF RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS NESTING AT LAGOONS AND PONDS IN EASTERN ONTARIO (2005) (19)
- Effect of brood size and age on the feeding behavior of adult and juvenile American Coots (Fulica americana) (1986) (19)
- Sex differences in brain size and mental abilities: comments on R. Lynn and D. Kimura (1995) (19)
- Quantifying interspecific variation in foraging behavior of syntopic Anas (Anatidae) (1979) (19)
- Changes in lipid and protein reserves and in diet of breeding House Sparrows (1988) (18)
- Variation in weight and composition of Red-winged blackbird eggs (1987) (18)
- The effect of plumage color on the thermoregulatory abilities of Lesser Snow Goose goslings (1988) (18)
- Differences in brain size (1992) (18)
- Nonrepresentative sampling during waterfowl banding: emphasis on body condition (1993) (17)
- Brain size matters: a reply to Peters. (1995) (17)
- Estimating age of young birds with a multivariate measure of body size (1992) (15)
- Effects of the blood parasite Leucocytozoon simondi on growth rates of anatid ducklings (1999) (15)
- BODY MASS AND CARCASS COMPOSITION OF FALL MIGRANT OLDSQUAWS (1996) (14)
- Do Neckbands Contribute to Starvation of Lesser Snow Geese (1976) (14)
- Are Size Gaps in Dabbling- and Wading-Bird Arrays Real? (1981) (14)
- Increasing Mallards, Decreasing American Black Ducks: No Evidence for Cause and Effect: A Reply (1989) (13)
- Interspecific differences in bill and tongue morphology among diving ducks (Aythya spp., Oxyura jamaicensis) (1989) (13)
- The Importance Of Nutrient Reserves To Breeding Blue Geese, Anser Caerulescens (1974) (13)
- Partitioning of foraging habitat by breeding Sabine's gulls and Arctic terns (1984) (13)
- Wetland Selection by American Green-Winged Teal Breeding in British Columbia (1996) (13)
- Intraclutch Variation in Egg Weights of Pied-Billed Grebes (1988) (12)
- Sex ratios of hatchling Mourning Doves (1987) (12)
- Factors affecting wing molt chronology of female mallards (1991) (12)
- Body Condition in Eastern Kingbirds (1987) (11)
- The adaptive significance of nutrient reserves to breeding American Coots: A reassessment (1997) (11)
- A TECHNIQUE THAT INCREASES DETECTABILITY OF PASSERINE SPECIES DURING POINT COUNTS (2000) (11)
- Sapsucker Hybridization in British Columbia: Changes in 25 Years (1976) (10)
- Body size and condition, age, plumage quality, and foods of prenesting male cinnamon teal in relation to pair status (1994) (10)
- Nest attendance by adult Pied-billed Grebes, Podilymbus podiceps (L.) (1988) (10)
- Diet and Gut Morphology of Male Mallards During Winter in North Dakota (2011) (10)
- Intraclutch Variation in Testosterone Content of Red-winged Blackbird Eggs (1999) (10)
- Social experience influences preferences in black ducks and mallards (1989) (9)
- Null models of North American prairie duck communities: local habitat conditions and temporal scale influence community patterns (2003) (9)
- The evolutionary selection of human races: A response to Miller (1993) (9)
- GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PREFLEDGING CANADA GEESE AND LESSER SNOW GEESE: ECOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OR PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT? (2002) (8)
- Diurnal time budgets of American Green-winged Teal Anas crecca breeding in British Columbia (1998) (8)
- Body condition, food habits, and molt status of late-wintering ruddy ducks in California (1992) (8)
- COMPOSITION OF EGGS AND NEONATES OF CANADA GEESE AND LESSER SNOW GEESE (2001) (7)
- ROLE OF FOOD IN TERRITORIALITY AND EGG PRODUCTION OF BUFFLEHEADS (BUCEPHALA ALBEOLA) AND BARROW'S GOLDENEYES (BUCEPHALA ISLANDICA) (2002) (7)
- Do Darwin's Finches Lay Small Eggs? (1983) (7)
- IMPROVING USE OF MORPHOMETRIC DISCRIMINATION TO IDENTIFY CANADA GOOSE SUBSPECIES (1999) (7)
- Workshop summary: nutrition, condition, and ecophysiology (1988) (7)
- USING POST-OVULATORY FOIJJCLES TO DETERMINE LAYING HISTORIES OF AMERICAN COOTS : IMPLICATIONS FOR NUTRIENT-RESERVE STUDIES (2004) (5)
- Effect of Brood Size on Nestling Growth and Survival of Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus marinus) Chicks (2016) (5)
- The brain size/IQ debate (1992) (5)
- Body size, nest initiation date, and Egg production in Ruddy Ducks (1999) (5)
- Variation in structural size and wing stripe of Lesser and Greater scaup (1988) (4)
- AVIAN SPECIES WITH FEMALE NATAL PHILOPATRY (1992) (4)
- Social enhancement of wing molt in female Mallards (1996) (4)
- Body Mass and Annual Survival in American Black Ducks: A Comment (1990) (3)
- Morphometric similarity of Mallards and American Black Ducks (1994) (3)
- Hunting mortality of mallards Anas platyrhynchos in relation to time of day, flocking behaviour, and individual condition (1995) (3)
- Canada Goose Gosling Mortality During Prefledging and Early Migration on Akimiski Island, Nunavut (2019) (2)
- FALLACIOUS ANALYSES CANNOT TEST FOR RACIAL DIFFERENCES: A REPLY TO GOREY AND CRYNS (1995) (2)
- Physiological responses of cold-stressed blue and snow phase Lesser Snow Goose goslings (1992) (1)
- Does Laying Order Influence Growth Rates of Common Eider Ducklings? A Skeptical View (1999) (1)
- VARIATION IN SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF BUFFLEHEAD (BUCEPHALA ALBEOLA) AND BARROW'S GOLDENEYE (BUCEPHALA ISLANDICA) EGGS (2006) (1)
- Mallard Use of Hen Houses TM in Eastern Ontario (2006) (0)
- Ecology and M a , nagement of Breeding \ Taterfowl (2009) (0)
- Published by the Wilson Ornithological Society (2002) (0)
- OF THE SOUTHERN FORMS OF $ ELASPHORUS ( TROCHILIDAE ) (2003) (0)
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