GGRO Peer-reviewed Research Papers

GGRO Peer-reviewed

Research Papers

1990 to June 2024

Following is list of peer-reviewed research papers from GGRO data.

No. 116: Smith, JP, SW Hoffman, and JA Gessaman. 1990

Regional size differences among fall-migrant accipiters in North America. Journal of Field Ornithology 61 (2): 192-200.

No. 4: Hall, LS, AM Fish, and ML Morrison. 1992

The influence of weather on hawk movements in coastal northern California. Wilson Bulletin 104: 447-461.

No. 126: Lewis, SA, and WR Gould. 1999

Survey effort effects on power to detect trends in raptor migration counts. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 28 (3): 317-329.

No.47: Lamberski, N, AC Hull, AM Fish, K Beckmen, and TY Morishita. 2003

A survey of the choanal and cloacal aerobic bacterial flora in free-living and captive Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) and Cooper’s Hawks (Accipiter cooperii). Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery 17 (3): 131-135.

No. 50: Hull, JM, and DJ Girman. 2004

Effects of Holocene climate change on the historical demography of migrating Sharp-shinned Hawks (Accipiter striatus velox) in North America. Molecular Ecology 14 (1): 159-170.

No. 44: Pyle, P. 2005

Remigial molt patterns in North American Falconiformes as related to age, sex, breeding status, and life-history strategies. Condor 107: 823-834.

No. 55: Hull, JM, AC Hull, W Reisen, Y Fang, and HB Ernest. 2006

Variation of West Nile virus prevalence in migrating and wintering hawks in central California. Condor 108: 435-439.

No. 57: Sehgal, RNM, AC Hull, NL Anderson, G Valkiunas, MJ Markovets, S Kawamura, and LA Tell. 2006

Evidence for cryptic speciation of Leucocytozoon spp. (Haemossporida, Leucocytozoidae) in diurnal raptors. Journal of Parasitology 92 (2): 375-379.

No. 63: Pitzer, S, J Hull, HB Ernest, and AC Hull. 2008

Sex determination of three raptor species using morphology and molecular techniques. Journal of Field Ornithology 79 (1): 71-79.

No. 64: Hull, JM, AC Hull, BN Sacks, JP Smith, and HB Ernest. 2008

Landscape characteristics influence morphological and genetic differentiation in a widespread raptor (Buteo jamaicensis). Molecular Ecology 17: 810-824.

No. 65: Hull, AC, MG Armer, BJ Sturgeon, and AM Fish. 2008

Featured photo: first documentation of a Eurasian Kestrel in California. Western Birds 39: 184-187.

No. 69: Hull, JM, BN Strobel, CW Boal, AC Hull, CR Dykstra, AM Irish, AM Fish, and HB Ernest. 2008

Comparative phylogeography and population genetics within Buteo lineatus reveals evidence of distinct evolutionary lineages. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 988-996.

No. 68: Hull, JM, HB Ernest, JA Harley, AM Fish, and AC Hull. 2009

Differential migration between discrete populations of juvenile Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis). Auk 126 (2): 389-396.

No. 67: Hull, JM, AM Fish, JJ Keane, SR Mori, BN Sacks, and AC Hull. 2010

Estimation of species identification error: implications for raptor migration counts and trend estimation. Journal of Wildlife Management 74 (6): 1326-1334.

No. 77: Ishak, HD, C Loiseau, AC Hull, and RNM Sehgal. 2010

Prevalence of blood parasites in migrating and wintering California hawks. Journal of Raptor Research 44 (3): 215-223.

No. 97: Valkiunas, G, RNM Sehgal. TA Iezhova, and AC Hull. 2010

Identification of Leucocytozoon toddi group (Haemosporida: Leucocytozoidae), with remarks on the species taxonomy of Leucocytozoids. Journal of Parasitology 96 (1): 170-177.

No. 199: Siembieda, JL, CK Johnson, C Cardona, N Anchell, N Dao, W Reisen, and W Boyce. 2010

Influenza A viruses in wild birds of the Pacific Flyway, 2005-2008. Vector Borne Zoonotic Diseases 10 (8): 793-800.

No. 202: Culliney, S, and T Gardali. 2011

Patterns in movement, captures, and phenology of Sharp-shinned Hawks in central coastal California. Journal of Raptor Research 45 (2): 160-167.

No. 80: Hull, JM, SE Pitzer, AM Fish, HB Ernest, and AC Hull. 2012

Differential migration in five raptor species in central coastal California. Journal of Raptor Research 46(1): 50-56.

No. 82: Hull, JM, AM Fish, C Nikitas, and AC Hull. 2013

Development and field testing of a mechanical lure for use in trapping raptors. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37 (4): 872–876.

No. 98: Jasper, MA, JM Hull, AC Hull, and RNM Sehgal. 2014

Widespread lineage diversity of Leucocytozoon blood parasites in distinct populations of western Red-tailed Hawks. Journal of Ornithology 155 (3): 767-775.

No. 99: Brake, AJ, HC Wilson, R Leong, and AM Fish. 2014

Status of Ospreys nesting on San Francisco Bay. Western Birds 45 (3): 190-198.

No. 203: Lee, KA, VS Goetting, and LA Tell. 2015

Inflammatory markers associated with trauma and infection in Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamicensis) in the USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 51 (4): 860-867. 

No. 94: Tomalty, KM., AC Hull, AM Fish, CW Briggs, and JM Hull. 2016

Differential migration and phenology of adult Red-tailed Hawks in California. Journal of Raptor Research 50 (1): 45-53.

No. 106: Abernathy, EV, JM Hull, AM Fish, and CW Briggs. 2018

Secondary anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in migrating juvenile Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) in relationship to body condition. Journal of Raptor Research 52: 225-230.

No. 112: Ely, TE, CW Briggs, SE Hawks, GS Kaltenecker, DL Evans, FJ Nicoletti, JF Therrien, O Allen, and JP DeLong. 2018

Morphological changes in American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) at continental migration sites. Global Ecology and Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00400.

No. 128: Luján-Vega, C, MG Hawkins, CK Johnson, C Briggs, C Vennum, PH Bloom, JM Hull, C Cray, D Pesti, L Johnson, P Ciembor, BR Ritchie. 2018

Atypical Chlamydiaceae in wild populations of hawks (Buteo spp.) in California. Journal of Zoology and Wildlife Medicine. 49 (1): 108-115.

No. 143: Kwasnoski KA, KA Dudus, AM Fish, EV Abernathy, and CW Briggs. 2019

Examining sublethal effects of anticoagulant rodenticides on haemosporidian parasitemia and body condition in migratory Red-tailed Hawks. Journal of Raptor Research 53 (4): 402-409.

No. 144: Bourbour, RP, BL Martinico, MM Crane, AC Hull, and JM Hull. 2019

Messy eaters: Swabbing prey DNA from the exterior of inconspicuous predators when foraging cannot be observed. Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4866.

No. 149: Bourbour, RP, BL Martinico, JT Ackerman, MP Herzog, AC Hull, AM Fish, and JM Hull. 2019

Interspecies, temporal, and geographic comparisons of feather mercury concentrations in North American raptors sampled at migration monitoring stations. Ecotoxicology DOI: 10.1007/s10646-019-0216-2

No. 153: Ely, TE. 2019

Book Review: Birds of Prey of the West –A Field Guide. Western Birds 50 (2): 107-110.

No. 115: Briggs, CW, AC Hull, JM Hull, JA Harley, PH Bloom, RN Rosenfield, and AM Fish. 2020

Natal dispersal and population origins of migrant Red-tailed Hawks and Cooper’s Hawks. Journal of Raptor Research 54 (1): 47-56.

No. 152: Capitolo, PJ, LJ Jesus, AB Harper, AM Fish, and AC Hull. 2020

Fall migration of radio-tagged Broad-winged Hawks (Buteo platypterus) in California. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132 (1): 15-21.

No. 155: Pericoli, RV, EL Karsten, AM Fish, and CW Briggs

Nesting biology of an urban Cooper’s Hawk population. Western Birds, 51(4).

No. 141: Wommack, E. A., Marrack, L. C., Mambelli, S., Hull, J. M., & Dawson, T. E. (2020)

Using oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes to track the migratory movement of Sharp-shinned Hawks (Accipiter striatus) along Western Flyways of North America. Plos one, 15(11), e0226318.

No. 196: Bourbour, R. P., Aylward, C. M., Tyson, C. W., Martinico, B. L., Goodbla, A. M., Ely, T. E., ... & Hull, J. M. (2021)

Falcon fuel: metabarcoding reveals songbird prey species in the diet of juvenile Merlins (Falco columbarius) migrating along the Pacific Coast of western North America. Ibis, 163(4), 1282-1293.

No: 111: Briggs, C. W., Dudus, K. A., Ely, T. E., Kwasnoski, L. A., & Downs, C. J. (2022)

Hemolytic parasites affect survival in migrating red-tailed hawks. Conservation physiology, 10(1), coac075.

Martinico, B. L., Sage, G. K., Gravley, M. C., Talbot, S. L., Bourbour, R. P., Hull, A. C., ... & Hull, J. M. (2023)

Population genetics and phylogeography of North American Merlins (Falco columbarius) in the post‐DDT era. Ibis, 165(3), 862-874.

Bourbour, R. P., Aylward, C. M., Meehan, T. D., Martinico, B. L., Badger, M. E., Goodbla, A. M., ... & Hull, E. M. (2024)

Feeding en route: Prey availability and traits influence prey selection by an avian predator on migration. Journal of Animal Ecology.