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face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>The British Columbia Nest Records Scheme Author(s): M. T. Myres, I. McT. Cowan, M. D. F. Udvardy Source: The Condor, Vol. 59, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1957), pp. 308-310 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Cooper Ornithological Society Stable URL: <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/1364966">http://www.jstor.org/stable/1364966 </a> </b></font></p> <p>I have quoted the part referring to Gordon below: </p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">"The purpose of the scheme is to collect information on birds' nests that ornitholo-gists and bird-watchers find, but which would otherwise go unrecorded or are recorded but left idle in personal field notebooks or diaries. The main items of avian biology that can be analyzed by this scheme are as follows: 1. The timing of the breeding season, the succession of clutches in species which lay more than one, and the variations in laying time from place to place and from year to year. 2. The size of the clutch and how this varies with latitude, altitude and climate. 3. The degree of success that birds have in hatching and rearing their young. 4. The essentials of habitat preference and variation in habitat throughout the range of a species; these data are provide ."</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><i>....</i>...</b> In 1956, 1003 cards were returned and these covered 1606 nests or broods. Particular mention should be made of the 120 nests of Glaucous-winged Gulls (Larus glaucescens) which </font><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Mr. Gordon C. Odlum watched on Race Rocks,</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> off the southern end of Vancouver Island. He was able to study them from the pre-egg stage through to hatching, and his observations are an example of the most valuable types of nest-record returns. It is seldom that sufficient nests are watched right through from the start until they either fail or their young fledge successfully .</font><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">"<b>..............</b></font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">SUMMARY A cooperative scheme for the assembling of data on the breeding biology of birds was organized in British Columbia in 1955. The aims of this scheme are outlined, and it is suggested that observers over the whole Pacific coastal region might eventually cooperate in the scheme. Already 1600 cards covering 2700 nests or broods of 139 species have been collected and are available for consultation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Colum-bia, February 8, 1957. </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="1" height="627"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="627"></td> </tr> <tr height="32"> <td width="8" height="106" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="753" height="32" colspan="3" valign="top" align="left" xpos="12"> <table width="346" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td><b><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">Go to the<a href="../../histam.htm"> HISTORY INDEX </a>for Race Rocks</font></b></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="1" height="32"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="32"></td> </tr> <tr height="74"> <td width="3" height="74"></td> <td width="750" height="74" colspan="2" valign="top" align="left" xpos="15"> <table width="745" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td> <center> <a title="racerocks.com homepage" href="http://www.racerocks.com"><img src="../../../logo/rrcomcolors.jpg" alt="racerocks.com home page" height="62" width="108"></a></center> </td> <td><a title="Lester B. 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