University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

This symposium held in Nacogdoches, July 13-14, 1978, was sponsored by the School of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, and the USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, Wildlife Habitat and Silviculture Laboratory, Nacogdoches, Texas.

Includes bibliographical references.

Insectivorous birds and North American forest ecosystems / Jerome A. Jackson -- Analysis of community census data : a multivariate approach / Leon J. Folse, Jr. -- Avian census techniques : an analytical review / William M. Shields -- Sampling considerations for evaluating the effects of mortality agents on bark beetles / Robert Coulson, Paul Pulley and Lewis Edson -- Tree surfaces as foraging substrates for insectivorous birds / Jerome A. Jackson -- Seasonal changes in woodpecker foraging methods : strategies for winter survival / Richard N. Conner -- Implications of optimal foraging theory for insectivorous forest birds / Edward O. Garton -- Factors controlling foraging strategies of insectivorous birds / Thomas C. Grubb, Jr. -- The comparative foraging behaviour of yellow-throated and solitary vireos : the effect of habitat and sympatry / Ross D. James -- Foraging ecology and habitat utilization in the genus Sialia / Benedict C. Pinkowski -- Foraging tactics of flycatchers in southwestern Virginia -- Jerry W. Via -- Vertical and temporal habitat utilization within a breeding bird community / Stanley H. Anderson, Herman H. Shugart, Jr. and Thomas M. Smith -- The use of nesting boxes to study the biology of the mountain chickadee (Parus gambeli) and its impact on selected forest insects / Donald L. Dahlsten and William A. Copper -- Seasonal populations of insectivorous birds in a mature bottomland hardwood forest in South Louisiana / James G. Dickson -- Impact of woodpecker predation on over-wintering within-tree populations of the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) / James C. Kroll and Robert R. Fleet -- The pileated woodpecker in forests of the northern Rocky Mountains / B. Riley McClelland.

Population demographies, spacing, and foraging behaviors of white-breasted and pigmy nuthatches in ponderosa pine habitat / Shaun M. McEllin -- Winter feeding niche partitionment by tufted titmice and Carolina chickadees in East Texas / R. Montague Whiting, Jr. -- The effects of insectivorous bird activities in forest ecosystems : an evaluation / Imre S. Otvos -- Concluding remarks / Stanley H. Anderson.