Blakiston's Fish Owl Literature

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AVERIN, A.A., AND A.I. ANTONOV. 2005. Owls of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and other regions of central Pri-Amur. Pages 424-428 in S.V. Volkov, V.V. Morozov, and A.V. Sharikov [EDS.], Owls of Northern Eurasia . Working Group of Birds of Prey and Owls, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian with English summary)

BERGMAN, S. 1935. Zur Kenntnis nordostasiatischer Vögel, ein beitrag zur Systematik, Biologie und Verbreitung der Vögel Kamtschatkas und der Kurilen. Bonniers, Stockholm , Sweden. (in German)

BERZAN, A.P. 2000. Blakiston's fish owl observations on Kunashir Island , and methods to habituate the species to artificial nesting. Russkii Ornitologicheskii Zhurnal 119:3-12. (in Russian)

——. 2003. Notes of observations of Blakiston's fish owl on Kunashir Island and experiments with artificial nest sites. Tyto 8:21-37.

——. 2005. Analysis of modern distribution and population size of Blakiston's fish owls in the southern Kuril Islands and Sakhalin . Pages 447-449 in S.V. Volkov, V.V. Morozov, and A.V. Sharikov [EDS.], Owls of Northern Eurasia . Working Group of Birds of Prey and Owls, Moscow , Russia. (in Russian with English summary)

BRAZIL , M.A. 1985. Owl of the setting sun. BBC Wildlife 3:110-115.

——. 1986. An unusual case of aggression by a fish-owl. J. Yamashina Inst. Ornith. 18:71-72.

——, AND S. YAMAMOTO. 1989. The behavioural ecology of Blakiston's fish owl Ketupa blakistoni in Japan : Calling behaviour. Pages 403-410 in B.-U. Meyburg and R.D. Chancellor [EDS.], Raptors in the modern world: Proc. of the III World Conf. on Birds of Prey and Owls, Eilat , Israel , 22-27 March, 1987. WWGBP, Berlin , Germany .

CLARK , R.J. AND H. MIKKOLA. 1989. A preliminary revision of threatened and near-threatened nocturnal birds of prey of the world. Pages 371-388 in B.-U. Meyburg and R.D. Chancellor [EDS.], Raptors in the modern world: Proc. of the III World Conf. on Birds of Prey and Owls, Eilat , Israel , 22-27 March, 1987. WWGBP, Berlin , Germany .

COLLAR, N.J. [ED.]. 2001. Threatened birds of Asia : the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge , U.K.

—— AND P. ANDREW. 1988. Birds to Watch: the ICBP world checklist of threatened birds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington , D.C. , U.S.A.

——, M.J. CROSBY, AND A.J. STATTERSFIELD. 1994. Birds to Watch 2: the world list of threatened birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge , U.K.

DEL HOYO, J., A. ELLIOT, AND J. SARGATAL [EDS.]. 1999. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona , Spain .

DEMENTEV, G.P. 1936. Diurnal Raptors and Owls. Pages 42-129 in S.A. Buturlin and G.P. Dementev. Field Guide to the Birds of the USSR . Vol. 3. Vsesoyuznoye Kooperativnoe Obyedinennoye Izdatelstvo, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian).

——. 1951. Fish owl. Pages 366-369 in G.P. Dementev and N.A. Gladkov [EDS.]. 1951. Birds of the Soviet Union . Vol.1. Sovyetskaya Nauka, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian)

——. 1970. Fish owl. Pages 406-408 in G.P. Dementev and N.A. Gladkov [EDS.]. Birds of the Soviet Union . Vol.1. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem , Israel .

DUGINTSOV, V.A., AND V.A. TERYOSHKIN. 2005. Blakiston's fish owls in the Upper Pri-Amur. Pages 421-423 in S.V. Volkov, V.V. Morozov, and A.V. Sharikov [EDS.], Owls of Northern Eurasia . Working Group of Birds of Prey and Owls, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian with English summary)

DYKHAN, M.B., AND A.A. KISLEIKO. 1988. Number and distribution of Blakiston's fish owls on Kunashir Island during the breeding period. Pages 29-32 in N. M. Litvinenko [ED.], Rare Birds of the Russian Far East and Their Protection. Dalnevostochnoe Otdeleniye Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vladivostok , Russia . (in Russian)

FLINT , V.E., R.L. BOEHME, YE.V. KOSTIN, AND A.A. KUZNETSOV. 1984. A Field Guide to Birds of the USSR . Princeton University Press, Princeton , NJ U.S.A.

FOGDEN, M. 1973. Fishing owls, Eagle owls, and the Snowy owl. Pages 61-93 in J.A. Burton [ED.], Owls of the World: their evolution, structure, and ecology. E.P. Dutton & Company, New York , NY U.S.A.

——. 1992. Fishing owls, Eagle owls, and the Snowy owl. Pages 53-85 in J.A. Burton [ED.], Owls of the World: their evolution, structure, and ecology. 3rd ed. Peter Lowe, Wallingford , U.K.

GIZENKO, A.I. 1955. Birds of Sakhalin Oblast. Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow , Russia (in Russian)

GRIGOREV, YE.M. 2005. New data about Blakiston's fish owl distribution and numbers on Kunashir and Shikotan Islands . Pages 450-452 in S.V. Volkov, V.V. Morozov, and A.V. Sharikov [EDS.], Owls of Northern Eurasia . Working Group of Birds of Prey and Owls, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian with English summary)

GROSSMAN, M.L., AND J. HAMLET. 1964. Birds of Prey of the World. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York , NY U.S.A.

HAYASHI, Y. 1997. Home range, habitat use and natal dispersal of Blakiston's fish-owls. J. Raptor Res. 31:283-285.

——. 1999. Past and present distribution of Blakiston's fish owl ( Ketupa blakistoni ) in Hokkaido , Japan based on museum specimens. J. Yamashina Inst. Ornithol. 31:45-61. (in Japanese with English summary)

——, AND C. NISHIDA-UMEHARA. 2000. Sex ratio among fledglings of Blakiston's fish owls. Jpn. J. Ornithol. 49:119-129.

HUME, R. 1991. Owls of the World. Running Press, Philadelphia , PA U.S.A.

KNYSTAUTAS, A.A. AND YU. SIBNEV. 1987. Die Vogelwelt Ussuriens. A.Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg Lutherstadt , Germany . (in German)

KONIG, C., F. WEICK, AND J-H. BECKING. 1999. Owls: a guide to owls of the word. Yale University Press, New Haven , CT U.S.A.

KURODA, N. 1931. A new subspecies of Bubo blakistoni from Sakhalin . Tori 31:41-42. (in Japanese with English summary)

MEISE, W. 1933. Zur systematic der fischeulen. Ornith. Monatsber. 41:169-173. (in German)

MIKHAILOV, K. 2000. Riesenfischuhu—der aussterbende Fischjger der Ussuri-Wildnis. Der Falke 47:68-73. (in German)

MIKHAILOV, K.E., AND YU.B. SHIBNEV. 1998. The threatened and near-threatened birds of northern Ussuriland, south-east Russia , and the role of the Bikin River basin in their conservation. Bird Conserv. Int. 8:141-171.

MIKKOLA, H. 1983. Owls of Europe . Buteo Books, Vermillion , SD , U.S.A.

MOUNTFORT, G. 1989. Rare Birds of the World. Stephen Greene Press, Lexington , MA U.S.A.

NECHAEV, V.A. 1969. Birds of the southern Kuril Islands . Nauka, Leningrad , Russia . (in Russian)

——. 1991. Birds of Sakhalin Island . Amur-Ussurri Center for Avian Diversity, Vladivostok , Russia . (in Russian)

——. AND V.D. KURENKOV. 1986. New information about birds on Kunashir Island . Trudy Zoologicheskovo Universiteta 150:86-88. (in Russian)

PANOV, YE.N. 1973. Birds of Southern Primorye . Nauka, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk , Russia . (in Russian)

PERERVA, V.I. 1984. Blakiston's fish owl. Pages159-160 in Borodin, A.M., A.G. Bannikov and V.Ye. Sokolov [EDS.], Red Book of the USSR : Rare and endangered species of animals and plants, Vol.1. 2nd ed. Lesnaya Promyshlenost, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian)

POYARKOV , N.D. , AND R.R. BUDRIS. 1991. Notes on birds of Lake Mukhtel , western coast of the Sea of Okhotsk . Ornitologiya 25:172-174. (in Russian)

PUKINSKII, YU.B. 1973. Ecology of Blakiston's fish owl in the Bikin river basin. Byull. Mosk. O-va Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol. 78:40-47. (in Russian with English summary)

——. 1974. Blakiston's fish owl vocal reactions. Vestnik Leningradskovo Universiteta 3:35-39. (in Russian with English summary)

——. 1977. The Life of Owls. Leningrad University Press, Leningrad , Russia . (in Russian)

——. 1978. Rare and little-studied birds of the Bikin River basin. Priroda 1:56-76. (in Russian)

——. 1981a. Numbers and distribution of rare and threatened birds of the Bikin river basin, Primorye. Pages 137-138 in Bromlei, G.F., V.A. Kostenko, V.G. Yudin, and V.A. Nechaev [EDS.], Rare and Threatened Animals of the Soviet Far East (Conference Proceedings). Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vladivostok, Russia. (in Russian)

——. 1981b. The future of Primorye's forest avifauna. Pages 139-140 in Bromlei, G.F., V.A. Kostenko, V.G. Yudin, and V.A. Nechaev [EDS.], Rare and Threatened Animals of the Soviet Far East (Conference Proceedings). Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vladivostok, Russia. (in Russian)

——. 1993. Blakiston's fish owl Ketupa blakistoni , Pages 290-302 in Ilichev, V.D. [ED.], Birds of Russia and Adjacent Regions. Nauka, Moscow, Russia. (in Russian)

——. 2003. Notes on Blakiston's fish owl. Tyto 7:27-51.

REBHOLZ, W.E.R., L.E.M. DE BOER, M. SASAKI, R.H.R. BELTERMAN, AND C. NISHIDA-UMEHARA. 1993. The chromosomal phylogeny of owls (Strigiformes) and new karyotypes of seven species. Cytologia 58:403-416.

SASAKI, M.M., AND Y. FUJIMAKI. 1995. Primary vocalizations of Blakiston's fish owls in Hokkaido. Res. Bull. Obihiro Univ. Nat. Sci. 19:111-118. (in Japanese)

SAYERS, B. 1976. Blakiston's fish owl. Avic. Mag. 82:61-62.

SHIBNEV, B.K. 1963. Observations of Blakiston's fish owls in Ussuriiskii region. Ornitologiya 6:468. (in Russian)

SHOKHRIN, V.P. 2005. Current status of owls in southern Sikhote-Alin. Pages 438-443 in S.V. Volkov, V.V. Morozov, and A.V. Sharikov [EDS.], Owls of Northern Eurasia . Working Group of Birds of Prey and Owls, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian with English summary)

SLAGHT, J.C. AND S.G. SURMACH. 2008. Biology and conservation of Blakiston’s fish owls in Russia: a review of the primary literature and assessment of the secondary literature. Journal of Raptor Research 42: 29-37.

SMIRENSKII, S. AND YE. SMIRENSKAYA. 1980. S ome rare and little-studied birds of Jewish Autonomous Region (Khabarovskii Krai). Ornitologiya 15:205-206. (in Russian)

SPANGENBERG, YE.P. 1940. Observations of distribution and biology of birds in the lower reaches of the Iman River. Moscow Zoo 1:77-136. (in Russian)

——. 1948. New information about the distribution and biology of birds of Ussuriiskii Krai. Okhrana Prirody 6.:(in Russian)

——. 1965. Birds of the Iman River basin. Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Museya MGU 9:98-202. (in Russian)

STATTERSFIELD, A.J. AND D.R. CAPPER [EDS.]. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. BirdLife International, Cambridge , U.K.

SURMACH, S.G. 1998. Present status of Blakiston's fish owl ( Ketupa blakistoni Seebohm) in Ussuriland and some recommendations for protection of the species. Report of the Pro Natura Foundation 7:109-123.

——. 2006. Short report on the research of the Blakiston's fish owl in the Samarga river valley in 2005. Peratniye Khishchniki i ikh Okhrana 5:66-67. (in Russian with English summary)

TACZANOWSKII, L. 1891. Faune Ornithologique de la Siberie Orientale. Mem. Acad. Sci. de St. Petsb., Series 7, Vol. 39. St. Petersburg , Russia . (in French)

TAKENAKA, T. 1998. Distribution, habitat environments, and reasons for reduction of the endangered Blakiston's fish owl in Hokkaido, Japan. Ph.D. thesis, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

TARKHOV, S.V. AND YE.R. POTAPOV. 1986. Wintering Blakiston's fish owls in Magadan Oblast. Pages 239-240 in Ilichev, V.D. [ED.], Current Problems in Ornithology. Nauka, Moscow, Russia. (in Russian)

VASKOVSKII, A.P. 1956. New ornithological discoveries on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk . Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 35:1051-1058. (in Russian)

VOOUS, K.H. 1988. Owls of the Northern Hemisphere. MIT Press, Cambridge , MA U.S.A.

VOROBEV, K.A. 1954. Birds of the Ussuriiskii Region. Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian)

VORONOV, G.A., AND A.I. ZDORIKOV. 1988. Blakiston's fish owl--Ketupa blakistoni blakistoni Seebohm on Kunashir Island . Pages 23-28 in N. M. Litvinenko [ED.], Rare Birds of the Russian Far East and Their Protection. Dalnevostochnoe Otdeleniye Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vladivostok , Russia . (in Russian)

—— AND V.V. PRONKEVICH. 1991. New ornithological finds in Khabarovsk Province . Byull. Mosk. O-va Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol. 96:23-27. (in Russian with English summary)

YAKOVLEV, B.P. 1929. Animal World of Manchuria : Birds. Obshchestvo Izucheniya Manchzhurskovo Kraiya, Kharbin , China . (in Russian)

YAMADA, K., C. NISHIDA-UMEHARA, AND Y. MATSUDA. 2004. A new family of satellite DNA sequences as a major component of centrometric heterochromatin in owls (Strigiformes). Chromosoma 112:277-287.

YAMAMOTO, S. 1994. Mating behaviour of Blakiston's fish owl Ketupa blakistoni . Pages 587-590 in B.-U. Meyburg and R.D. Chancellor [EDS.], Raptor Conservation Today. WWGBP, Berlin , Germany .

YELSUKOV, S.V. 2005. Owls of northeastern Primorye. Pages 429-437 in S.V. Volkov, V.V. Morozov, and A.V. Sharikov [EDS.], Owls of Northern Eurasia . Working Group of Birds of Prey and Owls, Moscow , Russia . (in Russian with English summary)

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