Turkey Vulture References and Resources
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Here are a few useful references for this species.  We welcome additional full citations.  Please contact us at data@birdinfo.com

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OVERVIEW REFERENCES

  • Friedmann, H. 1950. Birds of North and Middle America. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 50:1-793.
     

  • Godfrey, W. Earl. 1986.  The birds of Canada, revised edition.  National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. 595pp.
     

  • Kirk, D.A., and M.J. Mossman. 1998. Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura).  In The Birds of North America, No. 339 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
     

  • Palmer, R.S., Editor. 1988. Handbook of North American Birds, Volume 4. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
     

FIELD GUIDES

  • Howell, S.N.G., and S. Webb. 1995.  A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America.  Oxford University Press.  851pp.
     

  • National Geographic Society. 1999.  Field guide to the birds of North America (third edition).  National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. 480pp.
     

  • Sibley, David Allen. 2000.  National Audubon Society the Sibley guide to birds.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY.
     

REGIONAL REFERENCES

BRITISH COLUMBIA

  • Campbell, R.W., N.K. Dawe, I. McTaggart-Cowan, J.M. Cooper, G.W. Kaiser, and M.C.E. McNall. 1990.  The birds of British Columbia - volume 2: nonpasserines - diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers.  Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria and Canadian Wildlife Service, Delta. 636 pp.
     

  • Cannings, R.A., R.J. Cannings and S.G. Cannings.  1987. Birds of the Okanagan Valley.  Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria. 420pp.
     

  • Harper, Bill. 1996. 1996 Red and Blue lists for terrestrial vertebrates. B.C. Environment. 5 pp.
     

  • Shepard, Michael G. 1992. Fall Raptor Migration. Victoria Naturalist 48(4): 13.
     

  • Shepard, Michael G. 1995. Becher Bay headlands raptor monitoring protocol. In: Morgan K.H., ed. Baseline inventories of rare species and ecosystems of Department of National Defence Properties on southern Vancouver Island. Canadian Wildlife Service, Delta, B.C.: 41-49.
     

NOVA SCOTIA

  • Tufts, Robie W.  1986.  Birds of Nova Scotia, Third Edition.  Nimbus Publishing and The Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, N.S.
     

OREGON

  • Hunter, Matthew G.  2003.  American Avocet.  Pp. 74-76 in Birds of Oregon: A General Reference.  David B. Marshall, Matthew G. Hunter, and Alan L. Contreras, Eds.  Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.
     

WASHINGTON

  • Jewett, S.G., W.P. Taylor, W.T. Shaw, and J. W. Aldrich. 1953. Birds of Washington State. University of Washington Press, Seattle WA.
     

  • MacRae, Diann.  1998. Turkey Vulture migration over the strait of Juan de Fuca between Canada and the United States.  Vulture News, The Journal of the Vulture Study Group 38:2-9.
     

  • Smith, M. R., P. W. Mattocks, Jr., and K. M. Cassidy. 1997. Breeding Birds of Washington State. Volume 4 in Washington State Gap Analysis – Final Report (K. M. Cassidy, C. E. Grue, M. R. Smith, and K. M. Dvornich, eds.). Seattle Audubon Society Publications in Zoology No. 1, Seattle, 538pp.

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