...........Spring 2001 Spring 2005

..................BIO 332 Ornithology

This class is 3 credits and meets for one 3-hour lab on Thursdays 8:00-10:45 and for lectures at 11:00-11:45 Tuesdays and Thursdays. Some field trips in late spring will leave before 8:00 a.m. and return at 11:45 for extra field time. Two required all-day Saturday trips include a visit to Chicago Field Museum and Brookfield Zoo March 3, and a bird-watching field trip to points around Lake Michigan April 28. Labs will run from 9:00 to 10:45 Jan 18 - March 8 to make up for 8 hours of extra field time. Evaluation will be based on two lecture exams Mar 6 and May 3, one lab exam March 8 and a final field exam during finals period on the SMC nature trail. There will be no lab Thursday May 3. Lab/Field trip attendance is required to complete this course.

Tentative Syllabus:

Week of .......Lecture Topic ..................................Lab Topic ............................Text Readings

Jan 16 ..........Bird Characteristics,Evolution .............Topography .......................1-7, 8-23,351-361

Jan 23 ..........Feathers & Eggs .............................Feathers ............................25-50,295-296
Jan 30 ..........Adaptations of Birds .......................Internal Anatomy ....................53-109
Feb 6 ...........Anatomical Adaptations ..................Museum Prep .....................375-380,handout
Feb 13 .........Woodpeckers, Hummingbirds ........External Structures................. 125-152
Feb 20 ..........Systematics & Orders of Birds .......Lab Identification I .............110-124,152-171
Feb 27 ..........Families of US Birds .......................Lab Identification II
Mar 3 (Saturday) All-day field trip to the Chicago Field Museum, Brookfield Zoo
Mar 6 ...........Lecture Exam I
Mar 8 ...........Lab Exam I
Mar 10-18 ....SPRING BREAK
Mar 20 .........Distributions & Bird Watching ........So.Bend ducks, Rum Village .........174-197
Mar 27 .........Field Identification & Behavior .........Love Creek, Niles ..........................198-231
Apr 3 ............Migration ........................................Kingsbury ......................................232-258
Apr 10 ..........Territoriality ......................................SMC: netting, banding ...................259-265
Apr 17 ..........Bird Song & Mating Systems ..........SMC: song recording ............266-282,365-66
Apr 24 ..........Nesting Patterns ................................SMC: nests .........................283-338, 295-312
Apr 28 (Saturday) All-day field trip to New Buffalo, Michigan City, Warren Dunes
May 3 ...........Lecture Exam II

May 8 or 9 FINAL EXAM (8:00 - 12:00 a.m.) Nature Trail __________________________________________________________________

Required Text: Pettingill, Olin S., Jr. 1985. Ornithology in Laboratory & Field, 5th ed., Acad. Press.

Required Field Guide: Dickinson, et. al. 1999. Field Guide to Birds of North America, newest
edition, National Geographic Society, or Sibley's new Field Guide.

You will also need a field notebook, binoculars if you have them, and appropriate field clothing.