Preface
Foreword
Part 1. Synthesis/Overview
Chapter 1: Knowledge gained from video-monitoring grassland passerine nests
Pamela J. Pietz, Diane A. Granfors and Christine A. Ribic
Chapter 2: Conservation implications when the nest predators are known
Frank R. Thompson, III and Christine A. Ribic
Chapter 3: Gamebirds and nest cameras: present and future
Susan N. Ellis-Felege and John P. Carroll
Part 2: Breeding Behavior
Chapter 4: Hatching and fledging information from grassland passerine nests
Pamela J. Pietz, Diane A. Granfors and Todd A. Grant
Chapter 5: Attendance patterns and survival of Western Meadowlark nests
Larkin A. Powell, Matthew D. Giovanni, Scott Groepper, Mitchell L. Reineke and Walter H. Schacht
Chapter 6: Sprague's Pipit incubation behavior
Stephen K. Davis and Teslin G. Holmes
Chapter 7: Patterns of incubation behavior in Northern Bobwhites
Jonathan S. Burnam, Gretchen Turner, Susan N. Ellis-Felege, William E. Palmer, D. Clay Sisson and John P. Carroll
Chapter 8: The influence of weather on shorebird incubation
Paul A. Smith, Sarah A. Dauncey, H. Grant Gilchrist and Mark R. Forbes
Chapter 9: Nocturnal activity of nesting shrubland and grassland passerines
Christy M. Slay, Kevin S. Ellison, Christine A. Ribic, Kimberly G. Smith and Carolyn M. Schmitz
Part 3: Behavioral Responses to Predation/Predator Identification
Chapter 10: Bird productivity and nest predation in agricultural grasslands
Christine A. Ribic, Michael J. Guzy, Travis J. Anderson, David W. Sample and Jamie L. Nack
Chapter 11: Predator identity can explain nest predation patterns
Jennifer L. Reidy and Frank Thompson, III
Chapter 12: Nest defense: grassland bird responses to snakes
Kevin Ellison and Christine A. Ribic
Chapter 13: Partial depredations on Northern Bobwhite nests
Susan N. Ellis-Felege, Anne Miller, Jonathan S. Burnam, Shane D. Wellendorf, D. Clay Sisson, William E. Palmer and John P. Carroll
Chapter 14: Identification of Spragues's Pipit nest predators
Stephen K. Davis, Stephanie L. Jones, Kimberly M. Dohms and Teslin G. Holmes
Part 4: Technology
Chapter 15: Development of camera technology for monitoring nests
W. Andrew Cox, M. Shane Pruett, Thomas J. Benson, Scott J. Chiavacci and Frank R. Thompson III