Wild CA -- Tule Marsh Bibliography

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TULE MARSH BIBLIOGRAPHY

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WORLD WIDE WEB

California Resources Agency Wetlands Web

http://ceres.ca.gov/wetlands/

Find out more about wetlands from this informative site.

San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex

http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/us_nwr/ca_san_l.htm

Heading into the Central Valley? Why not stop at the 35,000 acre San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex? At the refuge you can birdwatch, fish, hike, and experience nature.

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

http://www.r1.fws.gov/sacnwrc/history.htm

They can describe themselves best: "The Complex consists of 6 national wildlife refuges for a total of 52,930 acres in the Central Valley of California. The Refuges serve as a resting and feeding area for nearly half the migratory birds on the Pacific Flyway."

Information about Creatures on Display in the Tule Marsh Diorama in Wild California Hall

Plants

Broadleaf Cattail

http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/graminoid/typlat/

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Typha+latifolia&special=calflora&where-anno=1

Buttonwillow

http://kaweahoaks.com/html/buttonwillow.html

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=12653&one=T

California Sunflower

http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?special=calflora&where-calrecnum=4042&one=T

Common Tule

http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/~crsmith/tule.html

http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?special=calflora&where-calrecnum=7387&one=T

Rushes

http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/juncus.html

Invertebrates

Dragonfly

http://powell.colgate.edu/wda/Beginners_Guide.htm

http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~fmitchel/dragonfly/Libellulidae/libell.htm

-scroll down to Libellula pulchella, includes lots of photos including some of the nymphs

Mud Dauber Wasp

http://www2.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2078.html

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/biodiversity/family/sphecidae.html

Reptiles & Amphibians

Western Pond Turtle

http://www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/herps/clem-mar.html

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/watchable/turtl.html

http://www.iep.water.ca.gov/suisun_eco_workgroup/workplan/report/wildlife/turtle.html

Birds

Illinois Birds – Includes links to the Common Moorhen, Red-winged Blackbird, Snowy Egret, Forster’s Tern, and Northern Harrier.

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/ifwis/birds/index.html

Common Moorhen

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/gallinula/g._chloropus$media.html

-includes a sound clip

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/whbauer/moorhen.htm

Common Snipe

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i2300id.html

http://www.birdphotography.com/species/cosn.html

Forsters’s Tern

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/er/factsheets/birds/fortern.htm

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/ifwis/birds/forsters-tern.html

http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/birds/speciesacc/accounts/gulls/forsteri/account.htm

Northern Harrier

http://www.buteo.com/nharrier.html

-scroll down to Harriers and click on Northern Harrier

Red-winged Blackbird

http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/birds/redbla.htm

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/whbauer/rwbb.htm

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/agelaius/a._phoeniceus$media.html

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/birds/songbird/icterida.htm

Snowy Egret

http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/birds/speciesacc/accounts/herons/thula/account.htm

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/whbauer/snow.htm

Virginia Rail

http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/birds/speciesacc/accounts/rails/limicola/account.htm

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/rallus/r._limicola.html

Mammals

Tule Elk

http://www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/aztlelk.html

http://www.chaffeezoo.org/animals/elk.html

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BOOKS

Beatty, Robert. Journey of the Tern. Landenberg, PA: Ecopress, 1994. Pub PS3552 .E195 J68 1994.

Beletsky, Leslie David and Gordon H. Orians. Red-Winged Blackbirds: Decision-Making and Reproductive Success. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996. M&O QL696 .P2475 B45 1996.

Cogswell, Howard L. Water Birds of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. M&O & SA QL684 .C2 C63 1977.

Ekstam, Borje. Regeneration Traits of Emergent Clonal Plants in Aquatic Habitats. Lund, Sweden: Dept. of Ecology, Lund University, 1995. Bot QK932 .E37 1995.

Hamerstrom, Frances. Harrier, Hawk of the Marshes: The Hawk That is Ruled by a Mouse. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. M&O QL 696 .F32 H35 1986.

Heiser, Charles Bixler. The Sunflower. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c1976. Bot QK495 .C74 H43.

Hotchkiss, Neil. Common Marsh Plants of the United States. Washington, DC: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 1970. SA & Bot QK938 .M3 H59.

McCullough, Dale R. The Tule Elk; It's History, Behavior and Ecology. University of California Publications in Zoology. Berkeley: University of California Press, Main Serials 1969. QL1 .C3 v.88.

Mason, Herbert L. A Flora of the Marshes of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. Bot QK938 .M3 M38 1957.

Nero, Robert. Redwings. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. M&O QL696 .P2475 N46 1984.

Saunders, Nancy, ed. Wetlands. Brookfield, IL: Chicago Zoological Society, 1999. Biodiv QH105 .I3 W48 1999.

Shafer, George David. The Ways of a Mud Dauber. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. ENT QL568 .S7 S5

Unitt, Philip. Taxonomy of the Marsh Wren in Southern California. San Diego, CA: San Diego Society of Natural History, 1996. QH1 .S324 no.31

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Benedict, Kitty, Jocelyne Pache, and Andrienne Soutter-Perrot. Egg. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, c1993. Pub Juv QL696 .P2475 B46 1993.

Hatch, Judy. The Dragonfly of Lookout Mountain. Mount Shasta, CA: Earth Heart, c1996. Pub Juv QL520 .H383 1996.

Hickman, Pamela. Wetlands. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1993. Biodiv Juv QH541.5 .M3 H52 1993.

Hirschi, Ron. Where are My Swans, Whooping Cranes, and Singing Loons? New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Public Juv QL113.8 .H57 1992.

McLaughlin, Molly. Dragonflies. New York: Walker and Company, 1989. Public Juv QL520 .M35 1989.

Parker, Steve. Pond and River. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Public Juv QH541.5 .P63 P37 1988.

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