Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973 : Egypt banding information (050-03221 to 050-03256).

Abstract

Supposedly a field book of banding forms that are survey records on migratory birds specimens collected in Egypt for the Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey. However, this folder only contains a preliminary leaf, the photocopy of the note "050-3221-3256-- fold sheets under 010", without any banding forms attached. The leaf is undated. From the finding aid (SIA RU000435): "The Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey (PMS), a survey of migratory birds, their ectoparasites and the viruses they carry, was conducted in the eastern Mediterranean from 1966 to 1971. The primary PMS operation site was in northern Egypt. Surveys were also conducted in Cyprus and Israel. The PMS involved scientists of the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Naval Medical Research Unit, and Yale University, and was funded by the Army Research Office, the Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program, and the Smithsonian Research Foundation. George E. Watson, Chairman, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, and Curator, Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, was Principal Investigator". Surveys were also conducted in Uganda.

Date Range

1966-1973

Start Date

1966

End Date

1973

Access Information

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Topic

• Birds--Egypt
• Animals
• Bird banding
• Birds
• Birds--Migration
• Birds--Parasites
• Ornithology

Place

Egypt

Form/Genre

• Fieldbook record
• Field notes

Accession #

SIA Acc. 16-361

Collection name

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Palearctic Migratory Bird Survey, survey records, 1966-1973

Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Location

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation

Box 6, folder 37