Where the eastern and western currents of American life merge as smoothly as one river
flows into another is a place called Nebraska. There we find the Platte, a river that gave …

Abstract The Rainwater Basin (RWB) has received limited attention as an important stopover
area for migrant shorebirds because of an absence of basic survey data. Here I present the …

On 21 August 2017, a total solar eclipse crossed the continental United States, providing a
unique natural experiment to observe how wildlife and plants respond to rapid and drastic …

The placement of wind energy facilities on the landscape is a potential source of direct
mortality for wildlife, but indirect effects of wind facilities on natural communities are less well …

Recent detections of large gatherings of Whooping Cranes suggest that flock sizes may be
increasing at some stopover locations during both the spring and fall migrations. We used …

Birds are altering the phenology of critical life history events, including migration, in
response to the effects of global climate change. Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) are …

The Nebraska Sandhills are an important area for breeding ducks in the Great Plains, but
reliable estimates of breeding populations are unavailable. Double-observer methodology …

Abstract Background The Great Plains of the United States includes a large number of
hybrid and contact zones between bird species. The amount of gene flow between sister …

Abstract The Platte River in central Nebraska, USA, was historically surrounded by mixed
grass and tallgrass prairies and wet meadows, but many of those habitats were lost or …

This annotated list of the birds of Nebraska grew gradually out of research associated with
my writing of the Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution …