Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza Caudacuta and A. Maritima
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza Caudacuta and A. Maritima
                                            
                            By Glen Everett Woolfenden
                            
                                22 Nov, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Taxonomically the Genus Ammospiza has received the attention of ornithologists for more than a century. Nevertheless, the behavior of no species of the genus has been studied extensively. The papers of Montagna and Tomkins are the only works that men
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                                                Taxonomically the Genus Ammospiza has received the attention of ornithologists for more than a century. Nevertheless, the behavior of no species of the genus has been studied extensively. The papers of Montagna and Tomkins are the only works that mention behavior and natural history in any detail. There has been an increasing awareness of the importance of ethological data and of their usefulness in systematics. For these reasons, I made a comparative study of the breeding behavior of the Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Ammospiza caudacuta) and the Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima) in New Jersey in the spring and summer of 1955. Less